Most of the time, the resident teams are doing rounds before the sun is up, but Murphy’s Law being what it is, we waited until around 11am before we saw them this morning. Businesslike Urology Resident came in with her supervisor and a couple of students. She gave Titanium Girl the ok to go home today, but stressed (very emphatically, with much verbal underlining of the words) that TG needs.to.drink.lots.of.water. She’ll be discharged on the medication that will hopefully keep everything dilated and the affected kidney draining, and she’ll need to take that for a couple weeks. She’ll also need to see a pediatric urologist, Dr. R. for follow up within the next week or two. I told the supervising doctor that Businesslike Urology Resident had been a great doctor, and I thanked them for their care.
They left and we waited. The longest hour is the 2 hrs between being given the greenlight for discharge and actually getting to go home. We’d hoped to be sprung free for lunch, but the lunch tray came around at noon. It did not pass TG’s inspection, so back to the McDonald’s downstairs we went. Shortly thereafter the nurse came in, and she knew nothing about any discharge plans. Lovely.
Sometime after 1 the nurse came back with discharge paperwork. She unhooked the monitors, told us about needing to call the pediatric urologist for a follow up appointment, gave us the prescription for the dilation med. At 1:30 we finally got to leave. TG and I are both looking forward to sleeping in our own beds tonight.
