Long day, very long painful night....

Just a quick note. A very long day at the hospital waiting for her to get into surgery, have surgery and then come out of recovery. Ty joined us after work. What a long day -  we got here at 1030 and she was taken to pre-op at 1230 and then went in at about 1.  We got a call at about 4:15 that the surgery was done and had gone well.  We still hadn't seen her at 6:30. There was an issue with low potassium so she has had to stay in recovery longer.  Peter had been up to the unit a few times trying to get info.  At about 6:45, I got very panicky and had to figure out what was going on and just went and stood outside the surgical suite till someone walked by and felt sorry for the haggard, crazy eyed woman standing there (that was me). She said she'd find out what was going on.  She came out a few minutes later and said "your daughter said to say she's just fine". She said Jacqui was sitting up chatting away. And I thought - yep that's the right girl.  They tested her potassium once more and it was fine and we finally got to see her at about 7:45.  

The surgeon called us about 7 and said the surgery had gone very well, she didnt need a transfusion and they didnt see or feel anything extra or unusual.  He said the nodules looked exactly as expected, they will send them for biopsy and we will hear back in about 10 days or so.  She told us that they had alot of trouble getting the epidural in - it was very painful and they had to try a couple of times.  It also really hurt her when they put in the IV when we first got there, also took a couple of tries. 
She is in a 4 bed room, this is the special room while she is on cardiac.  She had tubes everywhere, the room is crowded (she is in the main -old- Foothills building - McCaig was just for admitting) and noisy and we helped her get organized and settled as well as possible.  While we were there, they got her up at the side of the bed to help the expansion of her lungs.  We left about 9 and it was so awful just to leave her alone.....
And then the night - she had to wake up every hour to have her vitals taken and practise breathing but apparently that was no problem because her pain was intense so she didnt really sleep.  Her blood pressure was too low so they stopped the epidural for a time to get it up and then when they started it up again, it stopped working properly, so have been trying to get her pain under control since about 3 - she feels so powerless.  The Pain Specialist has been in so hopefully things will get better soon.
We are headed back soon, can’t get in till 11:00. 
Thanks for all the messages, texts and everything
It feels pretty dark right now...