All went well with Rene's surgery. It was the aftermath that had me scared out of my wits. The surgery took a total of 3 hours. Rene spent one hour in recovery and was doing well. The minute he was put in my car, he began to feel hot. As I drove off, it was evident he was crashing. He was crashing fast. As I drove back to the entry way, I was losing him to what we thought was a drop in blood sugar. I left him in the car, ran up to the second floor to call the nurse. We ran back down and Rene was out cold, yes I mean non-responsive. They took him back up, hooked him to machines and his blood pressure had dropped so low. As he came to, they loaded him up with fluids and kept us about another hour. Wooo! how scary. Through it all I stayed calm and knew he was in good hands and would be fine. Today he is recovering well, has needed no pain meds, but has an incision that looks like as Larissa put it "Frankenstein". He is feeling great.
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Coincidentally, a couple of months ago another dentist friend of mine had the same procedure performed for the same reasons as Rene. It turned out great and he's glad he followed through with it. You did good, Rene.
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