Thursday, July 19, 2012

Bye, bye grenades


Today the drains came out. Yay!!  Ouch!!

Since surgery, I have had two long tubes coming out of the side of my body to drain fluids from the operation.  The liquid would be deposited in two plastic, grenade-looking bottles.  These were emptied twice a day.  One has to be mindful not to accidentally tug on the tubes since they were stitched into my body, or lay on top of the grenades.



Now, with any foreign object stuck in your body it isn’t fun having said object removed.  There are still some parts of the surgical area that are a bit numb.  One of the tubes removed from that area, barely felt anything.  The other tube however was in a much more sensitive area and wasn’t very pleasant to have it removed.  Can’t really describe it other than a really, really, really hard pinch.

On our way home, we stopped at the local burger joint for some lunch.  This was my first outing in public place, other than yesterday’s doctor appointment.  It was an early lunch so the restaurant was not very crowded at first.  Towards the end of the meal, the place filled up and it got noisy.  I was feeling tired and was ready to leave.

The four-hour excursion to doctor and then lunch resulted in four-hour nap.

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