Rambling update post
Spent most of yesterday in bed, upset and watching movies on the laptop. Mommy brought me a new set of Hitchcock movies when she came down for my surgury so I ended up watching 2 that I hadn't seen before: Stage Fright, Suspicion, and 1 old favorite: Dial M for Murder. Mmmm. Hitchcock makes me happy. Couldn't sleep last night (yay for having a tube rammed up your neck, thus making it IMPOSSIBLE to lay your head comfortably in any position), so I finished season I of House. House makes Lissa happy too. Lissa wants this now. Lissa actually wants both Seasons I and II and wants Season III to start already. (toithaka, with your great talent and skill, will you make me a Wilson or House icon if you have time? *grovels and makes puppy-dog eyes*)
So, after a day spent sick and wallowing in self-pity, I made myself get up and have a productive day. Figured out how to get myself relatively clean for the time being. Washing hair takes way, way too much effort with a new Hickman. I'm thinking there will be lots of hats in my wardrobe for the next few weeks. The swelling around the catheter is starting to go down, it's stopped bleeding, and I finally got all the betadine off, so I look a little bit less like an escaped patient now. Actually hooked up to my TPN, and spent the day (not) studying for my Organic exam. I still hate NMR's.
In keeping with the no-self-pity theme of today, I want to say that I have some absolutely amazing, wonderful, insert-more-superfluous-positive-adjectives-here, people in my life, and sometimes it just blows my mind that I am blessed enough to get to count them as friends. Lil rat, even though he didn't get to come on Thursday, was worried and wanted to come so he could keep me company. He's growing up so much and makes me so happy. The roomie made me a 'Manila Envelope O'Goodies (much better than a bag)' for the hospital as well. It was AMAZING. Made the very sucky hospital experience much better. Then talked to Dewayne for a good while yesterday. I swear, even when he's hours away, that boy can make me feel beautiful when nothing else can come close to touching the hurt inside. He even offered to come down and make me smile, if I needed him too. Thank you so much to all of you. You have no idea what you mean to me.
Changing gears here, there's currently a really cute med-student (or resident or some other such still-learning medical-type) studying about infectious disease at the table next to me. He has a wedding ring on though. Sad. :(
Ok, enough breaktime. Must once again try to discover the mysteries hidden deep within every H-NMR spectrum just waiting for me to reveal them.
So, after a day spent sick and wallowing in self-pity, I made myself get up and have a productive day. Figured out how to get myself relatively clean for the time being. Washing hair takes way, way too much effort with a new Hickman. I'm thinking there will be lots of hats in my wardrobe for the next few weeks. The swelling around the catheter is starting to go down, it's stopped bleeding, and I finally got all the betadine off, so I look a little bit less like an escaped patient now. Actually hooked up to my TPN, and spent the day (not) studying for my Organic exam. I still hate NMR's.
In keeping with the no-self-pity theme of today, I want to say that I have some absolutely amazing, wonderful, insert-more-superfluous-positive-adjectives-here, people in my life, and sometimes it just blows my mind that I am blessed enough to get to count them as friends. Lil rat, even though he didn't get to come on Thursday, was worried and wanted to come so he could keep me company. He's growing up so much and makes me so happy. The roomie made me a 'Manila Envelope O'Goodies (much better than a bag)' for the hospital as well. It was AMAZING. Made the very sucky hospital experience much better. Then talked to Dewayne for a good while yesterday. I swear, even when he's hours away, that boy can make me feel beautiful when nothing else can come close to touching the hurt inside. He even offered to come down and make me smile, if I needed him too. Thank you so much to all of you. You have no idea what you mean to me.
Changing gears here, there's currently a really cute med-student (or resident or some other such still-learning medical-type) studying about infectious disease at the table next to me. He has a wedding ring on though. Sad. :(
Ok, enough breaktime. Must once again try to discover the mysteries hidden deep within every H-NMR spectrum just waiting for me to reveal them.