That aside, we have had some struggles with a couple of Dr. Sucato's staff about Clayton's cancer scans. Not the good doc himself and not any of the inpatient staff, but a couple of his staff members who a month ago said no scans until after surgery, then last week they changed their tune and said no scans after surgery for a while so they scheduled them for this week, but that posed a respiratory risk with his surgery just a week away. Then we thought we might be doing just a CT today, but no other scans before surgery. It was a tough concept, but George and I made peace with that. Then this morning they weren't ready for the CT, there were issues about contrast and it all turned into a roller coaster of a mess. So today has been an adventure in trying to sort things out. As it stands, I think we are actually going to attempt to do all of the tests in one sedation on Wednesday. Unexpected decision, but the anesthesiologist in charge here said she would be comfortable with it, so here we go...
After writing this I finally got to talk with the good doctor who apologized for the way things were handled and assured me he would have everything taken care of. He means business, so I know he will. He is the type of man who calls people's cell phone to get what he wants and because he is the brilliant doc he is, people jump/respond. There is still one test we won't be doing, but it seems we will be fitting the others in. Now we just see if everything goes smoothly...
If things go smoothly, and we have good results, hopefully George and I can breath a little easier going into this surgery.
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