Well there are several people here in the shared office space have decided that they should listen out loud to Barak Obama’s speech from last night. This is beginning to piss me off, not because of pollitics but I because I think that when you are in a public area, you should a) not do stuff to annoy those around you and b) don’t bring politics into things. I’m thinking of play some old Nixon speeches just to balance things out. 
I was finally able to take a shower yesterday and what a difference that made. I felt rejuvenated and like a new person. A new person with two sets of stitches in a sensitive area, but a new person never the less. After the shower I was able to remove some of the extra bandages around the incisions and that really helped out a lot. Aside from about an hour, I was almost my old self again. In fact I’m going into the office in a few minutes.
One of the other good signs was that I was able to finally sleep on my side and stay in bed the entire night. As I mentioned in a previous post (I think) I wasn’t able to sleep on my side the first few nights and could only sleep on my back. This wasn’t good for my sleeping and I wound up getting up at around 2:30am to try and sleep on the couch. Thankfully, that didn’t happen last night.
So the upshot is that I’m getting better slowly but surely, which is frustrating me to no end since I think I should be at 100% already.
So far our contest has been a complete bust. We have only had two people enter the contest. Malky and I thought it may be a good idea for a post with the ways to enter the contest.
I couldn’t sleep well last night. This is because I’m not able to sleep on my sides as I is my wont because of the location of the incisions and stitches. I have to sleep on my back which is no fun at all. Not only that but the pain seems to be worse today than it was yesterday. This may be a result of my trying to over do things yesterday, this is something else that I’m pretty good at.
I washed my hair last night and Malky helped me with that and gave me a baby wipe bath which did a pretty good job. She’s really been there for me during this and I really appreciate it even though this is going to ruin our anniversary date. That’s coming up on the 30th.
That was the popular question that former NYC Mayor (and my mother’s favorite - she still votes for him) used to ask people he met. I’m going to use it in a slightly different way and try to go through how I am currently feeling post procedure.
As Malky pointed out in her post from last night, I’m doing pretty well all things considered. There is pain but it quite manageable, nothing that some extra strength tylenol and ice won’t take care of. The major annoyance for me right now is the side of my mouth where they had the intubeation tube placed. It feels like I have some swelling on the inside, almost like a inverted fat lip.
The other annoyance is that I can’t take a shower until Thursday. I don’t consider myself Monk like in my cleanliness, but I do like to be clean and this is going to drive me insane for the next two days. Sure, I can use baby wipes or have Malky give me a sponge bath (which in other circumstances may be fun) but it’s not the same as having hot water running down your body.
Last and certainly not last, I wanted to thank all of you for your thoughts about how I should do the anesthesia (I decided to go the general route) and for your thoughts and prayers yesterday. It is very reassuring to go through a procedure like this and know you have people watching your back, so to speak.
I think that I have been sitting in a chair long enough. It’s time for me to lay down some more.
We’re home again. All’s well. Aaron ate, rested and isn’t in too much pain thank G-d. May he be doing even better tomorrow, G-d willing. I was very impressed with Cornell hospital. The staff was wonderful - everyone was patient and nice.
The area that family waits in looks more like a hotel lobby then a hospital.That definitely helped in keeping me calm for the first hour or so. Although you could feel the tension in the air as family members waited for news about their loved ones. Not much conversation going on in the room either. I guess everyone feels it’s a private matter.
I’m just so relieved that it’s over, Aaron made it through okay and that we didn’t have to have an extended hospital stay.
I’m out of surgery and the doctors are happy with how things went. I should be released shortly.
Well, there is about an hour left until I have to be at the hospital for pre op fun to begin and 2 1/2 hours before the surgery. Malky it seems, is more nervous than I am at this time. I’m calm about the whole thing and the only thing I’m upset about is that I have not been able to eat or drink anything since midnight last night. This means I’m missing my usual caffeine fix this morning and I have a slight headache reminding me of that fact. I’ll make up for it tomorrow.
I’ve been a wreck all day about Aaron’s surgery tomorrow. You would think it was me having it, although in someways it’s easier to be the one going through it. Now I can really understand what Aaron must have been feeling when I went through my labors. Then there’s 2 people to worry about so I guess that’s even worse.
The surgery is scheduled for 2:00pm tomorrow. Please pray/have good thoughts that all goes well.
I will try to post as soon as I can when we’ve made it through.
This weeks show and tell are pictures from our trip to Boston. We had a really nice time and it was great to get away from it all for a couple of days especially with Aaron upcoming varicocele surgery.
This is a picture of the world trade center of Boston. It has all the flags of different countries. I thought this was very appropriate for show and tell since Mel is so great at bringing people together.
This is me remembering to stop and live in the moment. The park was beautiful that day.
Pictures of the boat tour I took - a true sailboat where they got the passengers to assist with putting up the sails by pulling on the ropes. It had rained that morning and just as we started to sail out the sun came out. What perfect timing! My only problem was that I forgot my sunscreen - although I didn’t think I’d need it.
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