Rachel

I'm home from the hospital. I actually came home yesterday. The operation, according to the surgeon, was "textbook" and total time, including hiatal hernia repair, was about an hour. However, I was in the OR for about four hours because after they closed me up they were missing a needle and they had to look for it. They x-ray'd me and did something else and they didn't see the needle in me. I was later told that they'd found the needle on an equipment tray in the back...