Break on throught to the other side...

June 23, 2004

Sounds like a catchy tune! Well, it's day one, and I am on the

other side now. Thank you to all of you for your thoughts and

prayers. The surgery went well, only took 45 minutes to advance my

lower 12mm. I woke briefly in recovery, and was moved up to my room

for my 23 hour stay. I thought I'd be strong enough to go home by

5:00PM, but my throat hurt so much I couldn't swallow, even with the

morphine on board. So, they doubled my dosage, and that helped a

little, but then I stopped trying to drink all the cold drinks they

were shoving in front of me and drank warm, and that helped

tremendously.

By 6:30 I had my first cold drink (7-up), and by 10:30 I had my

first snack (strawberry yogurt). I was able to get off the morphine

then, and take Vicodin (which is what I have now that I'm at home.

Only problem with the vicodin is it doesn't let me sleep, so that's

something I'll have to deal with tonight. I had another snack

(vanilla pudding) with my 2:30 vicodin, and breakfast this morning

was cream-o-wheat and milk. When I got home this afternoon I had

chicken noodle soup, and stuffed shells for dinner. Gee, this isn't

going to be so bad after all! I even managed to take a mile walk

this afternoon, followed by an hour nap.

I'm not wired, and may be banded after a week to a week and a half.

I've got my first follow up appointment with the OS Friday AM. The

only real problem right now is one of the medications I've gotten

(and I know it's not the vicodin) is giving me the hiccups. Got to

get that one fixed soon!

Anyway, thanks to all of you for your support. I'll post pics on

site 2 as soon as I find my USB cable.

Dammit

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