Friday's Finale & Dr. DeVera

With the excitement of graduation over, Friday wasn't the fun finale of the week, but one that certainly reminded us all of the challenges that lie ahead as mom was scheduled for her pre-op visit with her surgeon and anesthesiologist.

Unfortunately, it didn't have a very smooth beginning when we are running just a couple of minutes late and Margaret calls us from the doctor's office and proceeds to tell us that the appointment is cancelled because the offices have a power outage!  What?  Indeed, when we arrived just a couple of minutes later, there was a dark office and a hand written sign on the door saying appointments would be rescheduled due to a power outage.  

This. Is. Not. Acceptable.  Ugh.

The good news was that the system has a different medical facility nearby where they were able to send mom.  The doctors met her there instead of their regular office.  It was pretty busy with the facilities own patients as well as the redirected folks like us.  Frankly, expecting a longer wait, we ended up getting seen by the docs and out the door sooner than it would have been at the other office!  There's a bright side!

Mom met with an anesthesiologist and answered all his intake questions.  He may or may not be her doc, those assignments take place on Monday.  Then Dr. DeVera was in to visit and discuss the surgery.  If all goes as originally planned, we'll be looking at the Whipple procedure I previously posted details about.  

Since we're doing this blog and can post photos, mom wanted to be sure you all could meet her surgeon, Dr. Michael DeVera, so here you go!  And don't you love the somewhat appropriate shirt mom's got on, "Even Better Live"? ;)  

This weekend I headed back home to take care of a few things and visit my fur children before taking off again and heading back down tomorrow afternoon.  On Sunday, after church, Mom is planning to spend some time with Margaret and her girls watching her four-footed grand-dogs compete in dock diving competitions at the outstanding local Country Kennels Dawg Waterpark in Murrieta.  If you're anywhere near there, this is a great dog park!  Veya has been quite the jumper and Bo gives her best...thanks for the correction, Margaret...and good luck to you all! :)

Monday will bring us together again for a small family brunch before I drive mom in for surgery on Tuesday morning...arrival time is 5:30am instead of what we originally understood to be 3am, whew!   Stay tuned...I'll keep you as up to date as I can as quickly as I can.