Do you like the view?

This is the view from my room, it isn't really what I had planned for today, but its my reality.

My week started off by having a day off from my 8-5 job and working for sometime at the store, It was nice to see such happy people coming in on a holiday. Mike had scheduled a diskectomy in a nearby town of Coeur d'alene for Tuesday and we were leaving in the afternoon. Jacob had an orthodontist appt as well so we were off. After a sleepless nite in our "corporate room" we were up at 3:30 'cause Mike couldn't sleep. We left for the hospital at 5am. It was foggy and eeeire but I was fine overall.

Mike was whisked away to the pre-op room and I was left in a large waiting room. There were coffee pots but no cups and a very loud TV playing Fox news. Not a really fun time at 5am. Finally at 7am they let me go hold his hand and say goodbye. He wasn't doing well, he was really panicky and his blood pressure was 169 over 120. The nurse was a little on edge. After some deep breathing and some blood pressure meds, they took him away to surgery. It was an hour procedure, but at 9:30 no news. Finally I asked the volunteer blue haired lady to check on my husband, she gave me the song and dance that it hadn't been long enough and I should sit down and wait. I kindly replied that if she didn't call, I was going too. The doctor appeared and told me the surgery went well but he woke up confused. That is typical for mike and anesthetic. An hour later I still have not seen my husband, I called back to recovery and they came and got me. I am normally a patient person but the blue haired lady was driving me nuts!!!!! I just wanted to know he was okay.

Finally we were in recovery but Mike couldn't get him pain in control, he was having back spasms and wanted to stand or sit or stand and sit again. He was miserable. We planned on going home today, its a 100 mile drive and we do it all the time, we have a comfy mini van and it was reasonable to do so. We finally got him out of the grip of KMC and off down the road we went. BUT..... we only made it to Post Falls and Mike was having such amazing back spasms we couldn't go any farther. Thanks to James we got a priceline deal of $50 and we are back to the Red Lion in Post Falls. This time we have a room with a view. I am so glad I have my laptop, as Mike takes a snooze and enjoys his pain meds I get to play,

I miss my dogs, my daugher and my folks. I wanted to go to work tomorrow at 8am and live my normal life, but something I am learing more and more is that I am really not in control of my so called life. Instead I just need to be thankful Mike didn't have complications and we were able to have such a nice room, that is clean and safe and he is sleeping.