There's a fine line between being honest and complaining, I think, so I wanted to take a quick moment in between posts to clarify what I'm doing here in my SharePosts. I'm not trying to scare you off from having tram-flap reconstructive surgery. The main purpose of my posts here has been to be honest. To tell it like it was. Which... Read more
Coming home from the hospital is a trip. And not just because it is, literally, a trip -- surviving the car ride (it's hard taking curves when you're ab-less), getting out of the car, getting up the stairs, getting into bed. It's a trip because as impossibly difficult as things seemed in the hospital, they seem even more... Read more
Almost as hard as getting out of bed for the first time after surgery is getting to stay in the bed. This is because the minute you get out of bed the doctors will start telling you that's it's time to go home already. They'll tell you this on their rounds in the morning; they'll tell you on their... Read more
Not to keep bragging, but my 12 hour surgery that had ended late Thursday night was so long that the nurses actually gave me a pass on getting out of bed the next day and let me "relax" with my patient-controlled morphine drip until Sunday. Anyone who has ever had surgery knows that there's almost no way to get the... Read more
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