After surgery...

hello to all, I am back from "the dark side"...got to come home from the hospital yesterday morning. Pain and fatigue are the two biggies right now, but I do feel pretty good. Being in a hospital was downright depressing, especially for those of us who are ADHD and can't sit still, even when your gut has been cut open. By the way, they were not able to do the procedure laparoscopic as planned, so I got the traditional surgery. Kind of like a C-section without a kid to benefit from it!

Well, the surgery went as well as can be expected, but you can never fully prepare yourself for the stuff that happens after the surgery. Saturday was easily the most difficult and painful day of my life. I won't go into great detail, but rest assured I would have paid upwards of $1,000 for a single box of Gas-X. Okay, you now get the idea...

I actually had to go to the emergency room Wednesday evening (surgery was Thursday) because I became dehydrated and the meds were giving me some bad nausea. Wesley Long was completely full, so I had to go to Moses Cone, spend the night there, then they transported me by ambulance back to WL for the surgery. From Thursday to somewhere late Saturday, I have little recall of what happened and who came by to see me. Which by the way, if you did come by and I said anything offensive, I blame it on the meds and the surgery! Apparently I said some rather spicy things to some folks, all of which I don't remember. Morphine and I do NOT get along well at all...

I gotta give thanks to my wife and parents, who spent the entire time at the hospital with me. My poor dad spent the night with me at Moses Cone, and he didn't realize until the next morning that the chair he was in was a recliner...darn nurses should have helped him out!

Well, I must go for now. As weird as it is, a simple email like this wipes me out. Thanks again to all for prayers, support, visits, meals, etc. They mean a lot to me and my family. I'll be in touch, B.