Today was, thankfully, a busy day. Ernie had lots of visitors and phone calls from friends and family as well as from the myriad of doctors that will be involved in his surgery. These were welcome distractions.
While the conversations with friends were more much fun than talking to the doctors, we did gain peace of mind by having the difficult, but necessary, medical discussions. Ernie let each of the specialists--the anesthesiologists, general surgeons who will be inserting the feeding tube, and ENT doctors who will be doing the intubation and trach--know his expectations. He told them exactly what kind of equipment he wanted and what he expected the outcome to be. I'm not sure that these "baby docs" are used to getting this kind of direction from a patient but they listened to everything he had to say and seemed up to the task.
His scleroderma doctor from Baltimore called to check up on him and his local Internist stopped by to make sure all was well. Knowing there are so many people in Ernie's corner, we will both sleep better tonight.
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