UWMC - One Day Before Vascular Surgery
Tuesday June 16, 2020 Chuck went home Monday night to take care of our pets, water the garden, and get a nice long run in after being cooped up in the hospital room since Saturday. That gave me an opportunity to call my school district's HR to update them on my medical adventure. I also needed to clean out my classroom to meet the district's COVID-19 standards. An amazing group of colleagues rose to the occasion and helped knock out that looming chore in an hour! I felt so blessed! At 10am a doctor in residency (DIR) came in to have me sign a consent form for the surgery. As he explained the possible complications of the surgery I noticed that I started to get black spots in my eyes. I sat down and explained that I wasn't sure what was going on. A minute later I stood up again to take notes and as he continued to state the side effects I suddenly lost my vision, got immensely hot & sweaty, and felt like throwing up. Thankfully, I was able to sit down in time before los...