When you put your mind to work, it is a great feeling. I had been sedentary both physically and mentally. On Monday, March 23, 2009 - 10 days after the surgery - I started working on the plans in my to do list book. These tasks included making phone calls, cleaning up small areas of items and getting things together for my taxes. The daily lists ( Read more... )

Over the next three days, most of my focus was on getting into a groove and lowering the amount of pain and painkillers. I was trying to make sure that I would be able to get off the prescription narcotics by the weekend - also to see if I would need to request more if that did not work out ( Read more... )

Before contacting my cousin to pick me up, there were a couple of things that had to be done. First, I needed to get my discharge paperwork in order. This was not too difficult because it was an explanation of what was done, what medicines I would need to take and what the new stuff could do to me. After that, as a part of discharge, I needed to ( Read more... )