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So my mom is having surgury this morning, and I'm worried. I called my dad's cell phone and was able to speak to her just as they were about to wheel her out of her room. She had that gastric bypass years ago, and now that she lost all the weight she has to have a surgury today to remove all the extra skin that was left behind. She was supposed to have had this done months ago, but on the day of her pre-op appointment she had a blood pressure of like 216/110. That's terribly high, and if we had a patient with a BP like that when I was still working at the hospital we would have admitted them to the emergency room, which is exactly what they did with my mom. She stayed in the ER all day until her BP came down to an acceptable level, and at one point they thought that the BP cuff was broken because it was still high after all the medication they had given her. Needless to say her surgury was cancled. Supposedly she has been taking meds for this since, but it's only like 10mg, the lowest possible dose of this partiular medication, and now her blood pressure is fine, which surprised her doctor. It should have taken a lot more meds to get it down where it is. The whole situation is messed up. Anyway, she is probably starting her surgury right now, and I have this feeling in the pit of my stomach that something is going to go wrong. It is supposed to last about 8 hours, so that's a long time to wait until I know anything. I'm not sure why I'm so nervous; but you hear things all the time about seemingly simple proceedures going wrong, and this surgury is a relitivly complicated one. When she had the gastric bypass, she sat us all down at the table and made us pick out what we wanted of hers should she die. I assume that same list is still in effect, but I really don't want my mom to die just so I can get some diamond earnings. Doesn't seem like a fair trade to me...