Cinder & Smokey, the gud luck pup is with dad at the hospital.

I went and visited him a bit earlier this afternoon. I guess dad has pretty tough skin as it took them at least 5 tries to get the IV in before surgery last night, and mom said they switched arms today and it took them a whole bunch more tries to put another IV in. That probably wasn't fun for him.

Mom called a little while ago and said he was supposed to be moved to another room pretty soon. They'd taken the bladder catheter out *shivers* and unplugged his nose tube, as they'll test and see how that goes without the machine for a bit. If it goes ok, they'll take that completely out too.

They had him sitting up in a chair instead of his bed from about 1:00 until at least 8:30 when mom called. He said it hurt a lot when they move positions from bed to chair. Yeah, that's cause every time your body moves, your ab muscles come into play and yours are cut, I told him. So, I'm sure he's definately not looking forward to them moving him around again.

The surgeon told them today it's about 4-5 days in hospital and 6 weeks recovery time.