uh, well i'm back at home now, and going into work tomorrow. my hospital story begins when i arrive and check-in 2-2.5 hours before my scheduled surgery as requested. i change into the hospital gown and settle in the room while the nurse tells me she'll find out if my doctor is maybe ahead of schedule so that they can start on me earlier. she comes back and tells me that my schedule is actually pushed back by about 1-1.5 hours because my doctor was still working on the first patient (i was supposed to be the third). so, with nothing in the room - no phone, not even a watch or clock, just a tv, i sit, salivating at all the food commercials wishing i could eat or even drink. about another hour later, the nurse tells me that my schedule was pushed back even more because my doctor just finished with the first person and just started on the second patient. so i continue to numb my mind with the trashy early afternoon tv (it's amazing how different the commercials are during the afternoon - catering to a totally different audience). finally, after four hours, my doctor walks in and tells me that i have an infection, and that he could not operate on me. arrrgh. i've already had a difficult time with this whole surgery, issues with the doctors office to even get my surgery scheduled. the reason the doctor didn't know until today was becuase i didn't have my pre-op appt until friday. and the reason i couldn't schedule it until friday was because the doctor's office didn't schedule and confirm my surgery at the hospital until mid-last week. regardless, i wish he could have told me, i don't know - yesterday? or even this morning? but instead i had to waste away my whole day at the hospital. i'm on antibotics this week, and he'll reschedule me to sometime next week, where i'll have to go through all this again. sigh.

so anyway, i'm at home, cancelled my PTO, and going back to the office tomorrow. my whole schedule has been thrown a little off now, but i'll deal.