Waking up Monday Aug 9 into my new Life

Aug 15, 2010

But first a break from a this is my life segment:

Darned these morning meds and vitamins are crazy for me to get down in the morning. It took me 1 1/2 hours to get all the drugs and vitamins down my gullet yesterday.  Hopefully it'll go a little smoother today. 

1. cut the size of a tictac. For me half that size works.
2. swallow each millionth of pill with water that you can only take a smalll sip from and god forbid you should accidentally gulp it.
3. dissolve that other pill under your tounge.
4 chew your vitamins,
5 drink your calcium.
plus you have to get that morning protein shake in. At least its now just 1/2 a cup a t time but 8 times a day. Whew weee.

I was crazy bored yesterday after spending so I went to my bad place...THE CASINO (swelling of big ominous music here)  . I spent about 5 hours there. Usually I lose my shirt there but I managed to come out only $100 behind. Believe me that's a good thing and it wouldn't have been that much if I didn't have to pass by a million machines on the way out. I lost that hundred on the way out the door. If had have just put my head down and headed straight out like I was gonna do I probably would have made it out $20 ahead. Ah such a foooll am I.
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  I woke up into my own private room at 1:30pm and there were about 5 nurses all around me.  Looking down at me.  I looked around and said "Damn, how he heck did I manage to get a private room?"  One of them said "Don't ask".  MMmmm should that puzzle me now?  I wasn't in too much pain.  Then this gorgeously handsome nurse named Scott stuck his head right into my face and ask me if there was anything he could do for me.  In to my thoughts popped "Anything "  How could I be randy after surgery?  

I then looked around and saw my old friend the pain pump.  She and I were going to become very very close over the next couple of days.  Unfortunately not as close as we should have because at some point during that day I didn't pay enough attention to her and the pain overwhelmed me.  From that point forward it was an ongoing battle against the pain for the next couple of days.  

I don't remember a whole lot about the rest of the day.  It was a blur of bloodtests and nurses yelling at me.  Then Dr. Pooler came down and said oh the way I'm on vacation for the rest of the week and so is Dr. Kaban.  Great and of course in my impaired state of mind I made a big deal of it in my head.  He assured me he was gonna check on my every day by phone and did. 
I'm writing this only a week after it happened and it feels like it's already slipping away.  Funny how that happens.  When you're in the thick of it you believe you'll never forget. 

The other thing that was a surprise was that I woke up with these things on my legs that gave them a constant massage from angle to thigh.  It felt good but after almost 2 days it got to be a little irritating.  It was non-stop motion.  It was also set up to do random vibrations on both legs.  Kinda like one of those multifunction vibrators you can get now a days.  Don't ask me how I know. .  They use them to stop deep vein thrombosis because you don't move a whole lot after surgery when you are sleeping or drugged out. I

About 8pm on Monday I was really tired of lying on my back so I insisted that they help me get up. With a little help from the nurses I got up and out of bed and moved around the room. It. Felt. So. Damned. Good.  But you sure know quickly when you've had enough.  

Then I was pretty much slipping in and out of sleep until the next day

So That's about enough for Surgery Monday.

Danette 

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