John had to be at the hospital in Uvalde by 6:30 a.m. so we were up nice and early in order to be on the road by 5:30a.m.  We only had a short wait before he was taken back into Out Patient Surgery and prepped.  The anesthesiologist was in first to talk about sedation and then Dr. Conoley came in and discussed the procedure.  John was off to the operating room a little after 8 a.m. and back in the room y 9:30 a.m.  The whole surgery went pretty fast.  While John was busy getting his knee repaired, I headed down to the hospital cafeteria for some breakfast and then sat in the waiting room visiting with the son of another patient.  

The nurse came to get me and said the doctor wanted to see me.  He told me the surgery went well and that John's meniscus was completely torn.  He trimmed and cleaned it and found all the ligaments and bone to be in good condition.  John had some trouble with the anesthetic making him sick to his stomach, but they gave him some medicine to help with it.  After stopping at the drug store for a pain med prescription, we hit the road back to the fort.

John spent the afternoon napping while I rested by watching some recorded TV shows.  Thanks to the folks that stopped by this afternoon to check on John and also for the phone calls.