The Aftermath:::...

Today is a better day than was the craziness of last week.  A week of work wildness and prep for my day surgery.

Fortunately, the surgery wasn't a life threatening procedure it was a preventive one to remove a precancerous growth...so just gettin' it gone - but it was surgery nonetheless.

This was the first time I have had an "in operating room in a hospital surgery" that wasn't emergency generated.  Sure I had my eyes done but I went to the office and I entered into their little medical procedure area that had surgical stuff but it wasn't in a hospital operating room.  Sure I had my colonoscopy that they knocked me out in order to do it, but again, I went to their office, into their tiny pre-procedure area then the little room with medical "stuff"  but it wasn't in a hospital operating room. 

So, to say I was a bit nervous would be a fair assumption.

Fortunately, I was not alone, so that was a helpful thing for me to keep grounded since I have never had to "think" about surgery, it just always happened too fast to think about it.  Well, it didn't help when my scheduled room time got pushed back by an hour and a half.  Bleh...but I got less nervous as time wore on, now I just wanted to get it done and over with that day.

I got my wish, eventually. :)

The back end of the process was fast for me.  The 90 minute recovery time allotment was only 55 minutes for me...mainly because I was awaken very quickly as the recovery room staff was moving/dressing/prepping me or whatever and they spotted my tattoos on my arms.  Well, apparently that got everyone's attention, including mine as I popped right out of anesthesia so quickly that I was acknowledging them acknowledging my ink...well, that surprised them and boy they did whatever they were doing quickly LOL. 

The pain I might have felt per the medical staff's warning, never appeared.  Hell my normal cramping was worse than what I have been feeling all along, but I am being smart and keeping ahead of any discomfort with mild pain relievers...yay!

So, the weekend consisted of just not pushing but not just sitting on my ass either.  I was nice that way.  Nice to have the preventive stuff almost done now.  Between the other precancerous growth removals, now I have a round of antibiotics to kill a bacteria that is the link to ulcers and stomach cancer...okay...that's next and then hopefully I am done?  And a healthy ox again LOL...so I can hike, dance, yoga, cardio or whatever to my hearts delight?  Hoping so... :)

Almost done I hope...yay!!!!!