Thursday, July 30, 2009
Day 3
I'm still not in much pain, and I've been easing down off my pain killers. I went from 10 PM last night to 10AM this morning on one set of Percocet with no problems. I was able to get out of the house and go to lunch at Davanzas. Later in the day I went to a barbeque at Madison's house. Well see what happenes tomorrow.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Day 2
Nothing interesting happened today. Stayed in bed almost all day and only left to go to the bathroom.
Day 1-Surgery Day
Yesterday, I had my ACL surgery. I arrived at the Hospital at 7:30 and got into the prep room pretty soon after that. I put on my gown, and a funny shower cap type thing, and they put an IV into my hand. Another nurse came in and instructed me to write "Yes" on the knee that I wanted them to work on, and then she proceded to rid that knee of all it's hair. For those of you who know what my legs look like, this must be a pretty entertaining idea, especially because she left a little ankle boot of hair. I'll have to take care of that when the wrap comes off.
Cooley came in around 8 to brief me on my surgery. We talked a little bit about the pro skier Tanner Hall, that he'd be working on in a few weeks and then he was off for his first operation of the day.
8:15 Rolled around and I was getting a blood sample drawn from my right arm. My blood pumped out pretty quickley so they took a few extra viles. They use the blood to create a super dense growth patch of condensed blood. I guess over the weeks it can increase the healing process incredibly. Pretty cool what they do these days.
8:50 I was being huled out of the prep room and into the surgery room. This was when I started to get nervous for the first time of the day. To ease the tension I made a joke about how they were trying to set time trial records on the surgery. I got a response from one doctor, that told me he was training his pet monkey to do it.
8:5? The anastesia mask came on and out I went.
11:?? I woke up in the recovery room next to my old AP Chem teacher Bill Kahn. I talked to him for a little while.
They gave me a few pain killers and soon enough I crutched my way over to the wheelchair that was going to take me to the car.
The rest of the day I took it pretty easy. I had some friends come over and visit with me, and I was able to get some sleep.
I have yet to feel any real pain, even without taking pain medication over night. The first day is usually the best so we'll see how the future days go.
Cooley came in around 8 to brief me on my surgery. We talked a little bit about the pro skier Tanner Hall, that he'd be working on in a few weeks and then he was off for his first operation of the day.
8:15 Rolled around and I was getting a blood sample drawn from my right arm. My blood pumped out pretty quickley so they took a few extra viles. They use the blood to create a super dense growth patch of condensed blood. I guess over the weeks it can increase the healing process incredibly. Pretty cool what they do these days.
8:50 I was being huled out of the prep room and into the surgery room. This was when I started to get nervous for the first time of the day. To ease the tension I made a joke about how they were trying to set time trial records on the surgery. I got a response from one doctor, that told me he was training his pet monkey to do it.
8:5? The anastesia mask came on and out I went.
11:?? I woke up in the recovery room next to my old AP Chem teacher Bill Kahn. I talked to him for a little while.
They gave me a few pain killers and soon enough I crutched my way over to the wheelchair that was going to take me to the car.
The rest of the day I took it pretty easy. I had some friends come over and visit with me, and I was able to get some sleep.
I have yet to feel any real pain, even without taking pain medication over night. The first day is usually the best so we'll see how the future days go.
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