After the first operation

Well, we went at 1:00 as told, but Mauri was still in the OR. After a bit of a wait, the doctor came out to talk to us. He said that the operation went fine, but that they were only able to do the grafting on the right arm for fear of too much blood loss if they were to do both at the same time. The right arm is the most badly burnt, and because of the size of his arms, they had to remove skin from both legs to be able to obtain enough skin for the grafting. We weren't able to go see him at that visiting session, but at 6:30 PM we were.
When we went back, he was still a bit groggy. He was mostly half asleep while we were talking to him, but he didn't want us to leave. He was upset about something that had happened to one of the grafts. Worried, we talked to a doctor on call who told us that it wasn't a big deal, but that he had been bleeding, and that they had to remove a couple of staples on one of the grafts to clean out blood that had accumulated underneath. Then they wrapped him up again and brought him back to an air fluidized bed, where he will be for the next couple of days.
We had a bit of an argument over when the next operation will be. Between the three of us that were there when the doctor spoke with us, each understood differently. It will be either on Friday or on Monday. Either way, on Monday they will take the first real look at the grafts done today to see if the body has accepted them. On Friday, they will do another cleaning session of everything except for his right arm- which will be left to heal for 5 days without touching it. Meanwhile he can't really move that arm much, so he is frustrated that he can't do as much by himself as he could yesterday. That also kept him from being able to answer the phone, so I wasn't able to wish him a good night.
The next operation will include doing skin grafts on the left arm, and the right side of his torso. They are going to try to let his back heal on its own- this is also partly because of the size of his upper body. They have already needed to move to his second leg as donor site for enough skin for today's surgery- there wouldn't be enough skin to be able to use if they were to graft both arms and his side and back.
We don't think that they will do any cleaning sessions tomorrow, so he'll finally have a day that will be a short break from what they've been doing to him. That will hopefully allow for him to be more awake and to be able to talk to us more easily when we go tomorrow.

Just "for fun," I took a few pictures of the burn unit area of the hospital. The door is locked except for at visiting times. Mauri's window was right behind the red stairway. The last few nights, after they kicked me out- and when they didn't close the blinds on his window, I would sneak around and sit on the stairway and talk to him with the walkie talkies until he was ready to eat dinner. I could barely see him from there, but at least he could see me. They moved him today, though, down the hall so that he can be in the air fluidized bed. It may be a bit harder to see him there from outside, but I may try tomorrow.

The last picture is for those who can appreciate the irony of another of the many stupid Spanish hospital rules. (¿cesped?)
(Do I sound bitter?)