It's Right on the Tip of my Tongue (Part 1)

   Or maybe not. They didn't say anything to me. Or maybe they did and I just didn't hear them. I was rather out of it at the time. I know when I got back to my room, they had told Yvette that they saw something so they decided to biopsy it.
   I know they biopsied something on the back of my tongue. Lingual tonsils.
   I never knew anything about lingual tonsils until Monday. That's when the nice lady from the doctors office told me they were going to do a tonsillectomy. I did ask how they were going to do a tonsillectomy when I had my tonsils removed years ago.
That's when she said something about they didn't take all my tonsils out.
   I didn't question too much. I figure they're doctors doctors, this is the stuff they do, I put my trust in God. And we've played that God will guide the surgeons hands.
   So we get to the hospital at 8:40. They said to be there by 9:00. Elicia drove us to Memphis and waited with Yvette while they did the "procedure". And there was a lot of waiting to do. After that got me all signed in and into my room the nurse is going through and telling me all the stuff I've got to do: Take off all your clothes, put on these special socks, put on the gown, use these special cloths to wipe down your body to sterilize it, take the special swabs to wipe inside your nose, get in bed and wait. I did all that stuff and when she came back I asked for a bigger gown. Then she told us that my surgery was scheduled for 1:00. That I would be taken down to pre-op around 12, then surgery would take about an hour, I'd have about an hour in post-op, back to the room for about an hour, and I should be released by 4:30.
   ::SIGH::
   Okay, when Yvette was having surgeries/procedures/whatever we get get signed in and they'd usually have her in pre-op an hour after we are supposed to be there.
   11:30 Elise, my nurse comes in and says there is an emergency and my tee time has been moved back a bit. They'll come get me when they're ready for me. I haven't had anything to eat or drink since midnight and you're telling me it's going to be longer before I can have the procedure. And have anything to eat or drink?
   1:30 Elise comes back again and says they're still working on the emergency.
   2:30 Elise comes back and tells me they're going to move us down to the 1st floor because they close where I was at at 3:00
   4:30 I think, they come to get me to take me to pre-op (or the anaesthesia doctor) as one nurse put it.
   5:42 I think was the time they rolled me into the operating room. And that's all I remember until I woke up in recovery.