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January 31, 2005
3 weeks
3 weeks post surgery
3 weeks no smoking
3 weeks of pain
3 weeks of being on drugs
3 weeks of being bored
3 weeks since i've seen the bottom of my right foot
3 weeks of blog entries only related to my knee
hmmm...maybe week 4 will bring something new.
Posted by meloknee at 06:03 PM | Comments (1)
January 14, 2005
home sweet home
i get to go home today!
Posted by meloknee at 09:37 AM | Comments (2)
January 12, 2005
72 Hours
72 hours:
no smoking
no drinking
on lots of pain killers that make me so itchy...(i think i'm allergic)
...even my ear cartlidge is itching. oh well.
going cuckoo...is it the drugs??? lack of nicotine??? obsessive itching??? the absurd amount of tv i've watched???
i wonder if i can make it up & down the stairs at my apartment...
if i can, someone please take me HOME!!!!
Posted by meloknee at 08:51 PM | Comments (4)
Yuck
they had me write on my knee so that they wouldn't operate the wrong one. i thought it was a good idea and it reminded me of a great story about my grandma.
a few years ago my grandma had to have a mastectomy of one of her breasts due to cancer. this is the grandma that i don't recall ever being sick, let alone spending any time in the hospital. she's even outlived two husbands.
anyway, i went to visit her 2 days after her surgery. as i'm walking down the hall, trying to be somber and serious i hear my grandma and others i didn't recognize, laughing hysterically. when i got to her room i asked what was so funny.
apparently my grandma, without telling anyone ahead of time, took a black sharpie and wrote on her good boob "Not Me." this apparently sent the surgeon into a laughing fit along with all the assistants, my grandma was already knocked out and didn't even get the joy of seeing th reaction.
at about 70 years old, my grandma betty had one of the quickest recoveries the hospital had seen. they sent her home early because they couldn't keep her in bed.
laughter=good medicine
Posted by meloknee at 12:56 AM | Comments (0)
January 11, 2005
percocet-tastic
30-something hours after surgery and i'm doing ok. the surgery itself went great. i was in on time and out on time. thanks to the amazing shot they gave me before i left the hospital i thought that this was going to be a piece of cake. i had no pain for the first 8 hours after surgery. i went to my parents house, watched tv, ate a bunch of food, walked around, it felt great. around 7 or 8 i started getting some aches and pains but with a little more vicodin, it went away.
around 3 o' clock in the morning i awoke with the worst pain of my life. worse than when i actually tore the acl and had to climb up a snowy hill to the lodge at stevens pass. i felt like such a baby, laying in bed, crying and yelling for my mommy. luckily though mommy and daddy were there for me. it was at that point i realized that the vicodin wasn't gonna cut it and i upped the pills to percocet. since then the day's really been nothing except one long nap with bathroom and eating breaks.
boredom is starting to creep up on me at a very fast pace. hopefully it will be slowed tomorrow with the promise of jeremy nash coming to visit. the parents have dial-up (it's not THAT bad though), my cell phone hardly works here and i took a bunch of pictures that i can't send to flickr or pix message while in the "extended network/roaming" area.
we're supposed to get a couple of inches of snow tonight though, so that would be nice to wake up to, all though with how much i slept during the day, i may be up all night...
Posted by meloknee at 09:52 PM | Comments (2)
January 05, 2005
tsunami relief
thanks for the reminder to donate, chase. it's so easy through amazon...one click and you're done (pretty much, anyway).
Posted by meloknee at 12:11 PM | Comments (0)