Surgeries, Surgeries, and More Surgeries

Let me tell you about the day...now this is craziness...let's start out with the week...Monday, my boss' s little 9 month old had his 3rd surgery-a successful one thank goodness! So, she was going to be out the whole week. Her partner, who normally only works one day a week, said she would work all week except Wednesday. Monday rolled by, Tuesday came and went, and then Wednesday hit. She again wasn't planning on working so we saw patients in the morning and then scheduled a computer training for the afternoon-very productive day. We went to lunch at 11 and as we are sitting there, by boss calls and says they are going home, baby Carson is doing great and is going from ICU to home! Great! She even stopped by the bakery on her way and dropped off some goodies to have for our training-how awesome is she to think about that on the way home from the hospital?!?!

Anyways, we get back and her partner called and said she is on her way to College Station to take care of her sick mom and possibly won't be back for work on Thurdsay-which would be a crisis because we had a lot of new patients that have to be seen by the dentist by law. So, we frantically call our boss, tell her the situation, and she says she will come in for Thursday. Whew!

Then, Thursday came:Dun, Dun Dunnnn!!! She walks in this morning and into our staff meeting and told us that her baby's stitches had come out last night on one side and that he was probably going to have to go back into surgery this afternoon! The problem came when her partner called and said, "My mom is in the ER being admitted for something, and my dad is upstairs in surgery for kidney stones!" OH MY! To make matters worse, my boss's husband was also scheduled to have surgery on his toe THIS afternoon! I mean seriously, have you ever heard of so many people having surgery? Thankfully, little Carson was ok and he did not need to go back into surgery-we managed the day, Dr. W bought us lunch at Chili's, and even got done about 2 hours early since we had moved so many patients up! It was a whirlwind of a week!

I am thankful though that everyone's surgeries went well and hopefully that is the end of them! Like so many other blogs, pray for the family at our church that lost their little 11 month old baby girl! She was 2 weeks apart from my niece and my sister has been teaching her in craddle roll this quarter. I just don't know how they are dealing-it crushes me to think of losing my precious niece-much less a daughter.

I pray everyone has a safe and fun weekend! Time to eat less so you are hungry for turkey!