Archive for June, 2010

7 quick takes

1.  I’m officially stir crazy. Today is day 17 that I’ve been off of work, recovering from surgery. Daytime TV, even on narcotics, is ridiculous. I used to like Oprah, but after how many years she’s been on, there’s not a lot of new content, just rehashed stuff with different people. I’m completely not into [...]

Reflections on my Dad

It’s 2am on Father’s Day. I woke up in an/anesthesia induced sweat bath. I had a lot of it in 7 hours of surgery 11 days ago. I’ll be sweating it out for a couple more weeks if history repeats itself.  They say it takes a full year for the liver to process all of the [...]

I’m alive :)

…just not moving so fast right now. The surgery was successful. My kidney will no longer kill me. YAY!  The hernia repairs are pretty harsh. They’ll heal eventually though.  I’ve been home for 2 days now. The pain that I expected is about 1/4 of what I have. It hurts a lot more than I [...]

Almost there

My surgery is in 3 days.  I’ve spent the weekend resting, recharging, and getting the last minute details taken care of. I still have some things to do but while laundry is going I thought I’d check in here. My knee is much better. We went hiking this morning and I went shopping after that. [...]