I kind of can't believe that it's Sunday night already. In theory, I'm going to work in the morning, but we'll see how I feel in the morning. As strange as it was to just...put my normal life on hold for a week, it's weirder still to think that the week is already over, that normal routines are only a few hours away ( Read more... )

I knew I wasn't dead when the anesthesia was wearing off and the doctor kept calling my name, trying to get me to respond.

He was butchering it, and he'd mispronounced it five or six times before my irritation overcame my desire to sleep. My lip curled, my forehead creased.

My first coherent words after the surgery were "It's Capiz."For the ( Read more... )

Okay, so, in light of the recent flappy heart issue, I finally did something I should have done a long, long time ago and.. actually looked up the drug that was prescribed to me for my blood pressure back in December of 2006 ( Read more... )

My uncle's wife's mother (I guess that makes her, by definition, my great aunt?) died at one thirty this morning, at last ending a straight downhill sprint with a brain tumor that began last October ( Read more... )

First things first: I'm through the surgery ( Read more... )

Jaw surgery in the morning ( Read more... )