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Day One Hundred and Twenty-Nine:  Go Go Gadget Operation!

Dear Diary,

This will be written prematurely, but I would like to speak only a short while on the topic of surgery itself.  If you must know, it doesn’t hurt me as much as you imagine, trust me, the only part that truly bothers me is the IV needle before I even see the operation table.  Falling asleep with anesthetic is actually so lovely, and tingling, and then you’re awake and it’s over.  Sometimes it’s really painful to wake up, and other times it sneaks up on you.  When I wake up they usually try to feed me those cookies you give to teething babies, but I like those so I don’t really complain, unless they don’t give me water and then I get a little frustrated.  I am calling today the day of operations because AJ is also getting an operation, and I hope he is okay.  I remember getting my wisdom teeth out, I didn’t enjoy the first day, I cried and watched the Grinch and ate cheesies, I hope someone brings him mashed potatoes and tomato soup, I can’t and I feel bad.  Everybody deserves tomato soup after surgery.  Anyways Diary, I was speaking of my own surgery experience, and the last thing I want you to remember is that I always wake up, and I am always a grumpy bear, but I will eventually get better.  Surgery is just one of those things that comes with being me, I guess, can’t escape it, so I embrace it.  I get to have a nice emal with my parents and sleep in a hotel room!  Imagine that, luxurious and lovely!  I hope I can rent a movie on the tv, that’s a fun part of being in a hotel too. 

Things to remember when coming out of surgery:

1.       Patience.  Yes, I will hav very little patience, and this is normal, and so in order to get by this give me a lot of space.  I give my own self space when I have little patience post-surgery, because I just get very frustrated with every little thing, like if I can’t put my own pants on because my arms don’t work properly, that’s one of those times where I’m allowed to get grumpy, because everyone wants to put on their own pants.

2.      Eating.  Sucks.  After surgeries big and small your teeth hurt from the anesthetic, your tummy’s very upset, and all you want to do is eat that big mac large fry cherry pie diet coke because you haven’t eaten prior to your surgery, and so this leads, again, further, deeper, into that grumpy bear mood.  IT’s great.  Don’t let me bite your finger off.

3.      Sleep.  I use surgeries as an excuse to wear jammies all day and sleep till whenever I can possibly hold myself in bed.  Do NOT ruin this for me.

I think those came off as more warnings and less advice, but hopefully whenever YOU have surgery you can use those three things as excuses too, because hye, it’s surgery, nobody likes those.  As for me, I’ve got to go and get on with it, but I hope everyone’s well Diary.  I don’t really like that I don’t know who reads my blog everyday, or who enjoys it or thinks I’m stupid for what I write.  I wish I had a bigger comments section, but sometimes I think that’s a good thing.  IT reminds me that this blog is for me, ME, and that I can write whatever I like in here for the next two thirds of the year (did I not mention I’m over a third way done these posts?  Insanity!). 

I wish you all the best of luck on your Thursdays and Fridays.  Take care,

Love always,

Jessica D.

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