Surgery day

Good morning all!

I hope all is well in your part of the world today.

Nicole here (Julie's eldest daughter), with a little bit of an update...

..We left Paraparaumu yesterday at 10.30am, and headed for the hospital. We had quite a posse, with Darren, Mum, Myself, Darrens parents Pete & Wendy & picking up Kelsey from Kilbirnie.
On arrival at Bowen we were told that her surgery was going to be earlier than expected. Mum was getting a tad nervous at this stage.

After meeting a very eccentric anesthetist who skipped to and from different hospital rooms, and two very straight foward surgeons, it was game time.

Mum joked with one of her surgeon's, that he should not talk whilst performing her surgery as he is a man and would be unable to do two things at once. He then asked her which side they were removing and upon being reminded that it was her left he drew a MASSIVE arrow on her chest pointing to which breast - just incase he was unable to effetively multi-task.

We said a family prayer, and then she was off. She had a few tears in theatre before going under, but her team were fantastic. Even holding her hands and comforting her right up until she went under.

The surgery was scheduled to take 4 hours at least and she was out and in recovery in 2.5 hours. Fantastic!

She is a bit sore and a bit groggy but otherwise doing very well. the staff at Bowen are fantastic. Mum's room has been dubbed 'the party room' as there is alot of love, support & laughter in her room. She even has the nurse's in fits of laughter.

I do have pictures from pre & post surgery but I don't have them with me so I will post them tonight for you all to see.

Once again thanks for all of your unconditional support and love.

XXX

Nicole

P.S I have left Mum with a notebook & pen, so she can write her own blogs from hosptal and I shall type them up. Your regular blogger will be back before you know it!