Wednesday

The past three days( Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday) have been full days of surgery, starting each day at 8 am and going until 6 or 7 each evening. All three of the surgeons, Dr's Lander, Muehlstedt, and Vandersteen have each had every single surgery slot filled with no room for additions. The support staff at Duside Hospital has been extremely helpful, from the OR nurses to the staff in the Pediatrics ward. Patients have been very good about returning to the hospital to spend the night prior to the next day's surgery in order to assure the children have nothing to eat or drink after midnight the evening prior to surgery. It makes for a lot of crying babies in the Pre- Op area the next day, especially toward the end of the day. Here is a picture of one young patent Marvelous, who is awaiting hernia surgery as we speak.