Thursday, January 22, 2009

Day Surgery

Just wanted to write a short post to let everyone know about the results of my wife's out patient hand surgery yesterday.

Wednesday morning about 7:30AM Paula underwent minor outpatient surgery for her "trigger finger" condition on the index finger of her left hand. The procedure only took about 30 minutes. The preparation (including filling out detailed information by computer, an EKG and blood tests) took about twice that long as did the recovery from the anethestia.

The operation was a success. Paula is now home resting for the next 5 days with the decreasing help of pain medication. She'll be slowly increasing the use of her hand and moving her fingers as the days pass. A full recovery is expected. She should be back to work keying numbers into spreadsheets by next week.

We send praises and prayers of thankfulness to the Lord Our God for watching over Paula during the proceedure. We are grateful for his guidence of the hands of the surgeon and providing the caring skilled people who saw to her health and well being throughout her brief stay at the hospital.

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