Out of Surgery. . .

Brendan was brought back to the room at 11:30 pm Saturday (10/10/15) night.  The BYU and U of U football games were long over so it was beginning to feel really late to us.  The bed ride from recovery was apparently a little hard on Brendan and he was a little distressed when he came into the room.  His pain was high and it took 30-40 minutes to get it under control.  But through the night we have been able to manage his pain and he has been able to rest fairly comfortably through the night.

The cords and tags and wires were his biggest nemesis overnight as he kept getting tangled up. He has his blood pressure cuff, 3 IV's (one hand, one arm and one foot), the port in his chest, 3 heart monitor wires, and the oxygen/pulse monitor on his finger.

At midnight he was put back on a no food or drink restriction in case he has another surgery today, so he managed a couple of sips of water before that option was taken away.

Brendan's left eye was very swollen and blue when they brought him in, with an incision along the eyelid.  I was told he had 4 or 5 stitches in his eyelid, but I can't see them with the swelling.  He has a string coming out of his nose and taped  to his cheek which is attached to the non-dissolvable packing inside his sinus where they patched the hole they made when cleaning out the mass.  That packing will come out in two or three days.  His chest, where they put the port, was causing the most pain overnight, with his head and eye coming in second.  His throat was another complaint (from the breathing tube during surgery) and he mentioned that his left eye felt sealed shut.  Between the oozing and the swelling, it is.
I haven't seen his hips yet.  Compared to all the other procedures, that one hasn't even registered on the pain scale yet.