On 24th May this year (2019) we arrived at Birmingham City Hospital for Rich's surgery. The whole transition from admittance to bed was seamless and at 9am I was allowed in to sit with him. He was so nervous but the McMillan nurse Emma put his mind at rest and talked him through the whole process, being sure to answer any questions we may have. She then left her number if we thought of any questions afterwards. Obviously in that moment, you forget the 300 questions you had carefully prepared in the days before.
He was taken down to surgery around 12pm and was back in recovery by 1:30. When he called to say he was in recovery it was a shock as he'd been gone for so little time, and they even managed to put in a prosthetic in this time too.
At around 6pm we were picking him up to come home. As I said before our NHS is fantastic and he was in good spirits upon leaving as he was assured that all is well. The turn around of him being taken to surgery to coming home was amazing.
