Leaving the Hospital
Almost all parathyroid patients are sent home within two hours of their parathyroid operation. You will be sent home when you are ready to go and after one or more of the doctors has said goodbye and has reviewed your photo with you and discussed the operation. So keep your photo out because the doctors will want to chat about it with you. NOTE, almost everybody gets a photo, but some do not for various technical reasons.
The nurse will call our Hospital-Hotel Limo for you and they will transport you back to your hotel. It is important for you to stay in one of our 5 partner hotels to have this service. If you valet parked, your nurse will call the valet and get the car brought around for you. By rule, all patients are taken out to their car in a wheelchair, so get prepared for one more ride!
You can read more about how and when you will be discharged from the hospital in the yellow “Day of Surgery” section of the app. If you have heart troubles, bleeding problems, or required a larger operation, you may be kept overnight in the hospital, but this is very uncommon. Only about one person every 2 months will need to spend the night—this is about 1 in every 700-800 people. However, safety always trumps convenience.
Time for a nap!
Almost everybody wants to take a nap when they leave the hospital and typically this is a 2-hour nap. When you awake from the nap you should feel pretty good. Almost everybody goes out for dinner the night of surgery, but if your operation was later in the day, you may just want a light dinner and relax. We have lots more about this in the yellow “Day of Surgery” section of the app.
Don’t check out of the hotel in the morning.
If you are staying at one of our hotels you MAY have the opportunity for a late check out. Tell the hotel you are having surgery with the Norman Parathyroid Center at the Hospital for Endocrine Surgery and ask for a late checkout (they MIGHT give you until 2:00 or even 3:00 pm if they are not booked solid for new arrivals that day).
Hospital Sprinter Van Transportation
If you plan to use the hospital Shuttle Van provided by our 5 partner hotels, make sure the hotel knows, and make sure you tell your nurses at the hospital. The shuttle leaves the hospital on the hour, last one being at 4:00 pm.
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