I just received a call from my orthopedic doctor's office. Seems as if the Hospital where the surgery is schedules has informed them that any and all surgeries from now until a couple of weeks go by they will not be accepting any patients for overnight or longer stays. All has to be outpatient only regardless.
That kind of eliminates the main reason for having it done there, the "just in case" scenario. So that sucks..
So, we discussed what the plans could be including delaying and waiting to see what the Hospital's position will be in two weeks.
Then I reasoned out the main reason staying oafter surgery might have been in irder. Pain control and nursing care.
So we then talked about pain control. The PA agreed that they will need to send me home with some strong pain meds to help control that aspect. If I can sleep and manage the pain then there isn;t any reason to stay at the hospital.. So the surgeon's assistants agreed to give me strong pain meds to bring home and we will do the surgery same day as scheduled but as an outpatient only.
Kind of takes away one's safety net but I do not want to postpone this any longer. I already put it off for two months.
So, a little disappointing news but at least we all understand that to simply provide strong enough pain control is all that needs to happen..
Bummer.....
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