Jerloma wrote:How come nobody ever wishes the surgeon good luck? I mean all Brian has to do is lay there.
Ha, I've said the same thing actually. If you're sending positive vibes out, include my neurosurgeon, he has to do all the hard work, I get sweet anesthesia drugs and then painkillers for a couple of weeks. Off to the hospital for my pre-surgical MRI. This is the one they'll use to create the "map" of my brain for their lasers and do-dads. Then a steak dinner tonight with the fam and checking into the hospital tomorrow morning.
Thanks for the good thoughts and I'll send an update when I'm back (figuratively) on my feet after the surgery.
Jerloma wrote:How come nobody ever wishes the surgeon good luck? I mean all Brian has to do is lay there.
Good luck to you and your surgeon Brian! Here's hoping your facebook posts stay as blunt and honest as they have been lately, whenever you get back online.
Surgery was apparently a success. Though my vision is a little wack & the morphine is flowing. I'll send a longer update in a day or two. Thanks for the good thoughts.
Neurosurgeons are kinda insistent upon having their patients awaken as soon as possible after surgery. They want to be able to immediately assess the neurologic status, and to be able to see if there is any damage.
Additionally, it doesn't hurt to cut on the brain. It hurts to cut through the skull, but once that is complete, you need very little anesthesia to perform brain surgery. Hence, quicker recovery.
Although, these things can take many many hours of surgery, or be finished up in a couple of hours. Curious to hear.
Glad you're awake. Don't skimp on the morphine button; it don't do anyone any good sitting in the IV bag.
Who knows? Maybe, you were kidnapped, tied up, taken away and held for ransom.
Those days are gone forever
Over a long time ago
Oh yeah…
Welcome back. Nice surprise seeing back so soon. Feel free to stop by the Lit thread and let us live vicariously through your sweet, sweet morphine high.
An honest to God cult of personality - formed around a failed steak salesman.
-Pruitt
And I firmly believe that when you are encouraged to partake in heavy drugs, you should take advantage of the situation. If nothing else, it will allow you to fully enjoy England-San Marino.
"beautiful, with an exotic-yet-familiar facial structure and an arresting gaze."
Edging closer to 100 percent, I'm actually back at work today, going to try to work a full day, but not sure how looking at a computer monitor for a full day is going to do for my eyes, which are essentially my only issue at this point. But check this out for a Kafka-esque nightmare.
So the doctor prescribed 120 pills of Percocet (generic is Oxy 10mg), which for the first few days after my surgery was the only thing keeping me from feeling like my brain was going to explode. I had my follow-up visit from the doc yesterday and he prescribed the same script which should be all I would need to manage whatever pain I have to deal with for the next few weeks. (I've been tapering down as the pain has dimished which I expect is the general idea for most reasonable people.)
But here's the kicker. No pharmacy in town has the Oxy 10mg in stock. So I have no way of getting my script filled until Thursday since my doctor ins in surgery Tuesday and Wednesday. So I have to hope I don't have any pain for the next couple of days since I only have about 10 pills left. Fortunately I think I can nurse them for a couple of days, but if this had happened two weeks ago I would have been seriously fucked. I guess the government is preventing the pharmaceutical companies from producing too much of opiate-based pain pills for some reason.
