Thursday, September 03, 2009

Surgery report

This will be short as it's hard to type with only one hand...

Surgery yesterday went fine. It was obviously not a pleasant experience but thank God it's done and I can look forward to a healthy shoulder again once it heals.

The surgery itself went good but it was not without incident. When I woke up I wasn't feeling any pain except my throat which hurt like hell. The nurse explained that I had stopped breathing in the middle of the operation for some reason and they to shove some kind of tube down my throat to get me breathing again. Other than it was routine but then in recovery my blood pressure shot up and I ended up staying an extra couple hours until it came down to acceptable levels.

Right now I'm home with some kind of strange, futuristic, uncomfortable sling on, I can't shower for the next 4 or 5 days (sponge bath!) and I've got a bunch of percocet to deal with the pain although it hasn't been too bad yet. I'm off of work until the end of next week and I'm bored already...

4 comments:

Michael said...

Grow out the goatie again man :D

Hope you feel better soon!

dizzysatch said...

Good to hear there are no major mishaps, and you're on the road to recovery!

Anonymous said...

Get well soon Rik. We have Bad Durkheim, Oktoberfest and the Herbstfest in the near future! Plus, Stas and Dan will be here in 2 and a half weeks...
Steve-O

eric said...

Glad to hear things are alright.

Please send your brother some of the percocet.