Monday, June 25, 2007

bye bye tonsils and uvula

Vince goes into suregery in about a half hour. I'm at work, since the move is near and we can use all the money we can get, but wish I was in the waiting room to see him once he was out. My dad made my day today, he said he would give me the extra gas money so I can go out to Loma Linda and see him when I get off work, since he knows a lot of my money is going towards the move. Vince is having his tonsils and uvula removed along with tissue from the top back area of his mouth removed. All these surgeries should solve his sleep apnea, he hardly stops breathing at night anymore just from the surgery they did on his nasal passages. So this final surgery should stop any remaning blockage of air while he sleeps... yay no more sleep machine! It will be nice to see him get a good nights sleep again soon. Originally the doctors said it was just being caused by his weight, so Vince lost about 30 pounds, but the apnea got progressivly worse. The dostors actually did more investigating, rather then just blaming his weight and realived his throat and nose were way messed up. I remember the nights when his sleep apnea was really really bad, I would wake up at all times through out the night just to check on him to see if he was breathing. My biggest fear was that he had stoped completely, thankfully that never happened and he is able to get this problem fixed. Vince has to stay in the hospital for 3 days so the next few nights will be kinda odd not having him next to me... that and I have to watch Hell's Kitchen tonight by myself :(

Get better soon my Vinny!

1 comment:

Nicole Leonard said...

Wow! They're gonna remove the uvula too!? I've never heard of that. Does that mean he won't have a gag reflex anymore? Anyway, I also hope he gets better soon.

I've heard that Hell's Kitchen is good. But I've never watched it before. Everytime I turn to that channel when it's on, they guy is yelling at someone. And yelling makes me uncomfortable... :)