The Stillroom

Im on my way for the liver biopsy. My siblings are thankfully handling my dad’s funeral arrangements today. I will write later in the day about what it is like having this procedure done. I’ll be ok. That’s what I keep telling myself. I wore a pink top to help me keep my spirits in check.

It was just as I thought it would be. I got there twenty minutes early and they took me right in. I didn’t wear pants with elastic waistband so I had to remove my jeans and top to put a gown on. I was able to keep under clothes and shoes on which was good. They gave me heated blankets while we went over paper work, put a needle in the arm in case I need a transfusion plus took a vial of blood to send to the lab. When all was cleared, I was wheeled to another part of the hospital where I was basically parked in a pretty quiet hallway for about forty minutes. It was right outside the door of where the procedure was being done. I just closed my eyes and waited. When I got in the room, I waited another fifteen minutes for someone to come in and get things going. Everyone was so nice, which is what I expected all along. They numb the area which is almost at the center of the top of the rib age. They said it would burn but I didn’t feel it. Dr. Weiss proceeded to put four pretty long needles in various spots in the liver to pull the cells out for the lab. It was slightly uncomfortable but as I told Mike, not painful, not painless, but tolerable. I only flinched once. It took about twenty minutes start to finish. Then I was wheeled back in the quiet hallway for another fifteen minutes while waiting for transport down to recovery where I had to lay for two hours. Today, I have to take it easy so I’m snug back under my covers with the heating pad on my tummy to keep warm. I have another Dr appointment tomorrow for my ankles because I don’t thing this is plantar fasciitis like I thought it was. The inner ankle bone area is swollen and very painful so I’ll be back there again tomorrow for a while different situation. Ugh! I feel like I’m falling apart and I hope they can at the very least take away this foot pain. I think the test results are not going to be great so I’m just enjoying the moments I have now where I still feel relatively good, except for the ankle thing. So that was my day. I hope I recover from this without incident. Doc said bleeding is rare. If I have any symptoms listed, it’s off to the ER but I feel alright. It def feels like something was done but very minor discomfort. Dads funeral plans are complete. He was a former Marine Corp. Veteran of the Korean War and served his community as a Police Lieutenant until his retirement. He lived a great, long and happy life with a dream retirement. He was a fabulous wood worker and a great fisherman. He was the best dad as he was strong, fair, quiet, patient and loving in his own gentle ways. I’m so happy he was my dad. I’m going to miss him terribly but perhaps I’ll be reunited with him and mom soon enough.