Tick tick tick

[cjsmith]

72 hours from now I'll be under general anaesthesia.

Pre-surg. dr's appt this morning. Usually, when I get blood drawn, I have a pretty bad reaction to it. Somehow this time it seemed small.

Got a few questions answered. 1) Surgery's at noon, I should show up at ten. 2) No food OR DRINK!! from midnight the night before. No water! Nothing! Grr. 3) I can expect two to four incisions depending on how messy everything is in there. There may be no visible stitches. Showering will be okay right away. 4) I should get up and move around once I'm awake, not lie flat. (Interesting, eh crazyladynocats?) 5) I get Vicodin. Cool. 6) He expects by Saturday I should have no trouble riding in an airplane, and as long as I feel okay I can square dance, too.

Forgot to ask about hot tubs. It may be a "as long as it doesn't hurt, go for it" type of thing, but I should check to make sure.

Tick tick tick tick tick. In 71 hours I go under. Nervous? Me? How can you tell? (Actually I'm fairly calm, but I really don't have a lot ELSE to post about, so I'm blathery about this.)

Comments

[portia.livejournal.com]

Yay! I'm really happy for you that you found a doctor who didn't try to stop you from having the surgery. Good luck, try to relax, and take lots of Vicodin afterwards!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Definitely yay! 8-) Oh crap, I forgot to ask whether they're set up to take video.

[portia.livejournal.com]

Video?! Could you really watch them cut you open like that?!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I could psych myself up for it. How many chances for this sort of view am I ever gonna get? :-)