The Day After

So that brings us to today. Saturday May 22nd, 2010. I slept pretty well through the night. Woke up around 3:00 to take my pain meds. The directions say to take 1-2 every 4 hours. I have only taken a dosage of 1 so far. Haven't had enough pain to need 2 yet. God willing, I wont. We woke up around 8:00 and our daughter jumped in bed with us. My wife read a book and my daughter and I played a game on my phone. It was very peaceful. I thought about how lucky I am to have a great family who loves me around me to help me through this process. I then started thinking about this blog and have been working on it since around 9:00 AM. My wife went to the store and got us stuff for breakfast and for me to have next week while she works. I am off until Wednesday when I can hopefully go back to work. Fortunately, my boss is understanding and has made all of this very easy for me. My pain is a 2-3 on a scale of 1 to 10. My throat is sore and airway is swollen from where I had a breathing tube put in me during surgery. I have not removed the bandage that covers my incision. The doctor said it was being held together with staples. That's cool !!! I have to go get them removed sometime next week. I should have a follow up appt with him right before Memorial Day to go over the pathology reports and get staples removed. I am kinda eager to take the bandage off but am gonna hold off until I talk to the doctors office. So that brings us to the preset, breakfast is done and I have rambled on for about 4 hours of so. Time to take a break !! I will post another entry later on today or tomorrow for sure.