Thursday/Friday

Sorry for the delay between posts...

First of all, here is a LOVELY picture of myself after surgery. Thanks Mom, thanks  a bunch! :)

In the wee hours of the morning on Thursday, I got to be disconnected from IV fluids due to my exemplary urine output. Yes, I know, thank you very much, I'm very proud. I also got my drain pulled which made things considerably better seeing as I no longer had a tube the size of a BIC pen coming out of my fresh incision.

I would now like for everyone to see the very festive socks I was given.

So, Thursday morning Dr. B came to check in on me and the nurses told him how fabulous I was doing so he said I could go home. Then, someone from physical therapy came in and took me for a walk and to try out some stairs. I passed with flying colors. After all of the glorious paperwork was done, Aaron took me home. Or should I say, our first stop was to NKCH to drop off some leave of absence paperwork in HR. How fun. The rest of Thursday was spent vegetating for the most part.

This morning (Friday), I woke up extremely stiff. For the most part, I feel better getting up and around rather than lying down. The problem here is that I get pretty worn out quickly so I want to be laying back down! Oh well. On a better note, I am just taking Ibuprofen for pain now. I had a little incident last night when I took a Percocet at 1:00am and ended up puking at 2:30am. Needless to say, fresh back surgery and vomiting don't mix real well.  And now I am back on my "No Narcs" soapbox... But I digress.

I went and hung out at my parents house today for a little change in scenery. It is day 2 and I am already getting bored. Houston, we have a problem. Aaron lovingly took me to Blockbuster tonight to get LEGO Harry Potter for Wii which is tons of fun for 7 year olds and 25 year old alike.

Once again for my rad friends, here is an intra-op image of my lead placement. They had a GE OEC 8800 c-arm (same as some of ours) there but the image quality was crappy... Should someone call Biomed??!!

Anyway, this is me signing off for the night so I can play Wii.