A brief update before I head for bed (early morning to catch my flight home for the holidays): My surgery on Monday went very well (aside from them needing two attempts to get the IV in...and then they still had to draw some blood from the crook of my arm...I'm so bruised). It only took about an hour, and I was coherent pretty soon after he was ( Read more... )

My foot surgery is scheduled for Dec. 19 in the afternoon. Way to fuck up my plans there, doc. So as it stands, I will be flying home Dec. 16-18 for the family drunkfest caroling party, having surgery the very next day, spending the next three days high on painkillers and flat on my back in bed/a recliner, then get wheelchaired through the airpot ( Read more... )