Peter's Surgury.

Well this morning was my brother, Peters, surgury. It took about 4 hours and they pulled the front of his face forward as well as moved his jaw back. It's the exact same surgury that I'll be getting in a few months (and actually should have had today as well). I spent the whole day with him until they kicked me out 'cause visiting hours were over. But I'll be there tomorrow at 7 and I'll have his laptop for him.

I feel so bad for him. We've had 2 surguries at the same time before and I've had 3 surguries by myself and this is the first ever time that he's had surgury at a time when I didn't have the same one. I can't believe how hard it is to see him like that. He's doing all right so far. Right away his nose started bleeding a lot so they had to gauze it but after about 3 hours it had mostly stopped with only a few minor bleeds after. He didn't notice though because he was so tired and I was no help at all at letting him sleep.

The problem was the combination of drugs in his system from the surgury itself and the pain relief after. When they added the morphine he started falling asleep very quickly but his body would forget to keep him breathing when he fell asleep. Within 20 seconds of dozing off his stat monitor would alarm. I had to wake him up a couple times a minute to tell him to breath. After about an hour and a half though enough of the drugs were out of him that he could sleep for 20 minutes before I had to wake him. Now he sleeps fine but the anesthetic is waring off so he needs his morphine uped quite a bit and he has a button that gives him a quick shot if the pain gets that bad.

Ugh, I wish I was there now. Tomorrow I get to talk to the surgeon so we'll find out exactly what happened in surgury.

Peter is strong though. He cracked a few jokes (despite the fact his mouth is wired shut) and he drank some soup (with a turkey baster like suringe). I'm gonna get to bed. Stressful day. Night.