NOTE: Chili felt slighted by my last post about him so he wanted to prove he could be a good boy today and sleep on his pillow while daddy watched the A's game. So here's the proof in a picture.
Well, it's another pretty scar and I'm done with another surgery. three down and zero to go. we meet with Dr. Zubay on Thursday to review an X-Ray of this latest surgery and discuss where we take it from here. I'm SO glad I didn't end up in ICU again. It was just one night in the hospital this time. Thursday after surgery I forced down about 3 bites of Orange Jello. Friday I ate about nothing. Saturday I was able to eat Oatmeal, some top Ramen, a pear, a buritto (bad idea, it was a bit dry and rough to get down) and some ice cream.
I was breaking my muscle relaxer pills in half to make them easier to swallow. Bad idea. Bits of the pill were breaking off and staying in my throat, causing me to cough and feel sharp pain. I'm just gonna toughen up and swallow the whole pill from here on out.
If you're not squeamish, here's what the newest scar looks like: http://www.sandiegoreds.com/images/shared/neckscar.jpg
Today I ate more Oatmeal (and much faster than yesterday) and ate some Pick up stix orange chicken (nice n' greasy = goes down easy) for lunch. I skipped the rice, egg roll and fortune cookie (first time ever) due to their coarse tendencies. We picked up the food at the pick up stix in Hillcrest. There was a parade of little dogs dressed up in clothes. We saw an army dog, plenty of dogs in dresses, a cat dressed as a cowboy, and random others. We should have entered Chili into this event, though he may have tripled the maximum weight limit.
After barely being able to talk much on Friday or Saturday it's getting a little better today. My throat and neck are still swollen and sore, giving me a much different voice, but hopefully that will go away soon.
Sleeping is MUCH harder after this surgery. I'm waking up about every hour needing to adjust my head. If I try to sleep on my back I constantly feel the need to swallow and that leads to non stop discomfort.
Couple observations from the hospital...as I was being wheeled in for my surgery I saw my Neurosurgeon walking by. I told him "we've gotta stop meeting like this." Nothing like pre-OR humor, I learned it from MASH...When Dr. Zubay came to see me the next day, his first observation...."are you growing your hair out?". Not the first thing I'd expect to hear, but reassuring that he wasn't freaked out about my condition...The one night in the regular hospital room was just about as noisy as the ICU. My roommate (appendectomy) had an ICU machine that was beeping about every 30 minutes, waking us both up. He also took some Ambien and had a couple of rough dreams. And to top it all off, they were cleaning the floors for about 3 hours with some industrial machines outside our room. Fun!
I was breaking my muscle relaxer pills in half to make them easier to swallow. Bad idea. Bits of the pill were breaking off and staying in my throat, causing me to cough and feel sharp pain. I'm just gonna toughen up and swallow the whole pill from here on out.
If you're not squeamish, here's what the newest scar looks like: http://www.sandiegoreds.com/images/shared/neckscar.jpg
Today I ate more Oatmeal (and much faster than yesterday) and ate some Pick up stix orange chicken (nice n' greasy = goes down easy) for lunch. I skipped the rice, egg roll and fortune cookie (first time ever) due to their coarse tendencies. We picked up the food at the pick up stix in Hillcrest. There was a parade of little dogs dressed up in clothes. We saw an army dog, plenty of dogs in dresses, a cat dressed as a cowboy, and random others. We should have entered Chili into this event, though he may have tripled the maximum weight limit.
After barely being able to talk much on Friday or Saturday it's getting a little better today. My throat and neck are still swollen and sore, giving me a much different voice, but hopefully that will go away soon.
Sleeping is MUCH harder after this surgery. I'm waking up about every hour needing to adjust my head. If I try to sleep on my back I constantly feel the need to swallow and that leads to non stop discomfort.
Couple observations from the hospital...as I was being wheeled in for my surgery I saw my Neurosurgeon walking by. I told him "we've gotta stop meeting like this." Nothing like pre-OR humor, I learned it from MASH...When Dr. Zubay came to see me the next day, his first observation...."are you growing your hair out?". Not the first thing I'd expect to hear, but reassuring that he wasn't freaked out about my condition...The one night in the regular hospital room was just about as noisy as the ICU. My roommate (appendectomy) had an ICU machine that was beeping about every 30 minutes, waking us both up. He also took some Ambien and had a couple of rough dreams. And to top it all off, they were cleaning the floors for about 3 hours with some industrial machines outside our room. Fun!
6 comments:
Nice view up your nose too!
I hope the swelling goes down and the pain decreases so that you can continue to add more food items to your diet. The last thing you need is to lose more weight.
Keep up a positive attitude and you'll be back to normal soon. Glad to hear however that things are improving.
Nice scar. Let me know if I can help you with anything.
I am glad you have a great sense of humor, you need it at a hospital. Glad it was only 1 night. Those scars are going to make for great dinner conversation one day. We are looking forward to seeing you both real soon, scars and all.
Take care,
Rach & Mike
You need to get a post sticking out of that scar! Add some green face makeup, fake stitches, and you'll be a dead ringer for Frankenstein. Glad your sore throat's getting better.
Kate
Maybe you can get a tatoo to cover the scar. It'll make you look tougher; that beard you're growing just isn't doing the trick.
Glad you've found some slippery tasty food to eat. Hopefully you'll be able to sleep comfortably soon.
James
You should post all six of your scars. Do a google composite.
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