RS Surgery Done - The Longer Version

Here's a longer update (now with photos).

Before I went to the hospital on Friday, I took a photo of my arm pre-surgery.

After I got to the hospital, it was the normal waiting around stuff. Eventually, I was down in the pre-op area beng fitted for an IV. I could hear someone else in there talking with their doc and it was apparent that they had had many surgeries and suffered through many forms of cancer, so it was a salient reminder that even though I'm about to have surgery, I'm very lucky.

I remember going into the operating theater and my arms being being spread out like Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man. My left arm had the IV in it and the right arm was on an x-ray table. Then I started to feel drowsy and awoke in the recovery room.

The next few hours are rather hazy - saw some of the MLB game on the TV, kept dozing off, had some bland soup, decided to stay in the hospital overnight (way too loopy to do anything else). Yuan went home for the night.

I was taken off the pain IV around midnight (had some jello too - it tasted awesome) and had a pain pill instead - had another at 4am with a popsicle and started to feel better soon after the IV was stopped.

Yuan came back in the morning and we left and came home.

I have a pain buster in my arm - seems to be a new thing as most nurses at the hospital had only heard of them before (never seen one), so we had to have a photo session of the arm with the pain buster in it.

The pain pills were still making me a little loopy, so stopped taking them Sunday lunchtime and started feeling better again.

A doc visit this afternoon is next.