{"id":302,"date":"2009-04-10T03:13:05","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T07:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.archibaldjude.com\/spew\/?p=302"},"modified":"2009-04-10T03:13:05","modified_gmt":"2009-04-10T07:13:05","slug":"d-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.archibaldjude.com\/spew\/2009\/04\/10\/d-day\/","title":{"rendered":"D-DAY"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I woke up from the anesthesia, I\u2019m sure I was a groggy mess exhibiting little or no cohesion of thought or process.\u00a0 But I am also sure I executed a mental checklist which peppered my thoughts immediately prior to the warm serum.<\/p>\n

Alive?\u00a0 Check.<\/p>\n

Vision?\u00a0 Check.<\/p>\n

Brain Damage?\u00a0 Ummm\u2026.<\/p>\n

But there I was, staring into the eyes of the same doctor who\u2019d been there prior to lights out.\u00a0 What felt like a 10 minute nap had afforded Dr Rust the time to do his thing. \u00a0He says: \u201cComplete success\u201d,\u00a0 \u201cNo complications\u201d, and\u00a0 \u201cNothing out of the ordinary\u201d.\u00a0 In my dirty semi-consciousness, I hear myself let out a \u201cwooooo\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n

No pain.\u00a0 Strange, given the tools and augers that have been violating my cavities.\u00a0 But nothing.\u00a0 Perhaps it\u2019s the residual anesthesia.\u00a0 But I\u2019d take a little pain, if I can just have something to drink.\u00a0 Any fucking thing.\u00a0 Cause it feels like I\u2019m about to swallow my tounge.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The next 2-3 hours were to see me steadily regain footing amongst the living.\u00a0 Slowly sitting up & sipping apple juice.\u00a0 Letting the nurse change the nose-sling (the moustache of gauze sponges taped to my face).\u00a0 Being walked to a chair where the pressure cuffs were removed and Anna (either willingly or begrudgingly) took photographs.\u00a0 The whole rest of my day, even on the drive back home, only 3 hours after the surgery, was pain FREE.\u00a0 Only discomfort.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But as the day progressed into night, I began to feel acutely aware of not only the sutures on the left wall of my septum (to repair the deviation to the right), but to the packings that were stuffed up there, trailing 2x strings each out each nostril & taped to my face.\u00a0 These dressings were an unknown distance up there; I couldn\u2019t tell.\u00a0 The strings we\u2019re becoming blood-cemented to the architexture of my sinuses, then stripped away when I had to change the moustache sling.<\/p>\n

But it was the pressure that was becoming intense.\u00a0 More significant then even my most severe sinus infection.\u00a0 THIS is precisely where & why I was prescribed Vicodin, that evil fucking pill that does more harm then good, IMHO.<\/p>\n

I was able to get a hearty bowl of soup up me, and watch Apocolypto, the first of about a dozen tactically chosen & queued Netflix\u2019s.\u00a0 Despite having to sleep sitting up, and all the cascade effects that plus the Vicodin were having to my rear end, I did sleep very well.\u00a0<\/p>\n

All in all, a good day.\u00a0 I was finally on the other side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I woke up from the anesthesia, I\u2019m sure I was a groggy mess exhibiting little or no cohesion of thought or process.\u00a0 But I am also sure I executed a mental checklist which peppered my thoughts immediately prior to the warm serum. Alive?\u00a0 Check. Vision?\u00a0 Check. Brain Damage?\u00a0 Ummm\u2026. But there I was, staring … Continue reading D-DAY<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[9,87,146,154,169,177],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.archibaldjude.com\/spew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.archibaldjude.com\/spew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.archibaldjude.com\/spew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.archibaldjude.com\/spew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.archibaldjude.com\/spew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.archibaldjude.com\/spew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.archibaldjude.com\/spew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.archibaldjude.com\/spew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.archibaldjude.com\/spew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}