Observations From Hadleyville: WE'RE GOIN' IN: PART 2

Wednesday, October 3, 2007

WE'RE GOIN' IN: PART 2

Whew, what a day. When you have surgery you can't eat for twelve hours before said surgery. I'm diabetic, which means I can't take my medications until afterward, either. Because of that They usually schedule me for very early in the morning. Not yesterday. I was scheduled for 10:30 which is still kind of late. I actually went into the OR at 3:00 PM. Dr Lau said he got the nasty little bugger. He blasted it to pop rocks and actually managed to drain most of the bits out during surgery.

I woke up in recovery @ 6:00 and left the hospital at 7:00. FINALLY ate at 8:00. The good news is my fasting blood sugar next morning was 90. (a normal person's levels vary from 75-130)

No pain to speak of. A touch of residual soreness from the garden hose they had up me. Burns when I pump bilges. However, the excruciating torturous pain lessons with each event. I should be fine by tomorrow.

Appreciate all your prayers--you know who you are.

Off to resume normal schedule; defined as a couple hours of "work" followed by a long nap.

Later Duds--er, Dudes!

4 comments:

Stephanie P. said...: I'm so glad to hear they finally got it. That sucks that you didn't get out until 7! Yikes!! I'm glad you're not really having much pain. Love you!; October 3, 2007 at 10:16 AM
Don the Baptist said...: Bless you my child.; October 3, 2007 at 3:47 PM
Austin said...: Glad you're feeling better.; October 4, 2007 at 12:24 PM
The Pattersons said...: Thank god! Let's keep praying that it never happens again ;-); October 4, 2007 at 3:48 PM

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