Darren's surgery

[Guest guest]

Hi Everyone, I'm , Darren's wife. I wanted to give you all an

update on Darren's surgery. He had the surgery as scheduled on

Friday, September 24th. We got to Fairview Medical Center at 6:20

a.m. and the surgery started at 7:45 a.m. I finally got to see him in

ICU at 8:00 p.m. that evening. He looked really tough and he felt

really tough. Initially the nurses had a tough time getting his pain

under control. He is on Diladid. He handles that pain medicine

really well. They had him sitting up on Saturday morning in a chair

and then moved him to a regular floor on Saturday afternoon. He

doesn't remember a whole lot from the start of the surgery up through

Sunday. He also had a tough time with his vision. The only

conclusion that the nurses and doctors came up with was the prednezone

that they gave him during the surgery. Blurred vision is a side

affect. His vision is now back to normal as of today. As of now he

isn't diabetic. He will have to take one to two shots a day of

regular insulin until the islet cells kick in fully. The doctor said

that his pancreas was much worse then they thought. They received

105,000 islet cells and they wanted at least 200,000 to 650,000. The

doctor said that 105,000 was good though for Darren.

My hubby has been a trooper through this surgery. He has been very

patient with the doctors and nurses. He has had to put up with a lot

of error on some of the nurses part. Overall he is right on

schedule according to Dr. Sutherland.

Have and excellent evening.