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Hey, I just wanted to post a follow-up from my last post!

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So!

My surgery went pretty well, was in the OR for 35 minutes (came out 10 minutes early) and was awake by 11:45. I was super-alert pretty quickly and chatty like nobody’s business!

As it turns out, the injury that was repaired was pretty close to as good as it could get, so this is good in terms of prognosis and in terms of recovery time. I’m also experiencing some discomfort and pain, but not a huge amount, and I wasn’t even experiencing any serious throbbing or pain this morning when I got up (I took a vicodin anyway; it had been 7 hours and I didn’t want to get blindsided).

They gave me a list of some post-op care procedures, which I intend to follow to the letter.

Other than that, I’m feeling pretty dang good, certainly a lot better than Thursday.

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Comment by Joey

2009-11-11 16:41:58

Sorry I missed this news by a few days. I'm glad it went well. I do know a lot about surgeries as I've spent most of my life in hospitals under the knife.

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Comment by James Pyrich

2009-12-14 18:08:27

Thanks for your sympathies Joey, I appreciate it. Will you have to experience any more surgery due to your condition if you don't have any more complications, or is that not really something you can hang your hat on?

(I will say that I felt considerably worse after the anaesthesia and painkillers wore off, and then I slowly started to feel better.)

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Comment by Joey

2009-12-14 19:52:23

I will likely experience surgery many more times in my life due to my disability. Right now things are looking good but I see a doctor who knows about my birth defect for monitoring. I'm a veteran of that experience but the thought of doing another surgery and spending more time in a lonely hospital room still frightens me.

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