Ice Ice BabY!

Its the magical thing that takes away pain when you really just need it gone! Its called ice, ice packs, frozen vegetables will even work. I remember one time i used some frozen peas so many times i was laying in bed and smelled something rotting. Yup it was my "ice pack" of peas..... So remember kids alternate your  ice veggies or throw them out after a few uses.

Kaylee spent the night over mimi and bumpas house so Mel and I got to sleep in today. I think i woke up sometime around 7:30am, yes that is sleeping in nowadays. We were scheduled for a 9:30 arrival at cooley dickinson for surgery prep work. We could tell right away that they were behind in the schedule. They took me in to get my cool jonny on and get me prepped for surgery. I got to get my whole hip shaved and wiped with slimy antibacterial cloths. After much waiting and waiting and waiting(ok so i dosed off alot) i was finally wheeled away for surgery around 12:15. So not too horrible considering my Time was scheduled for 10:55.  NExt thing i know im being yelled at by tons of people saying  "WAKE UP KORTNEY WAKE UP" and i could not stop shaking . I felt like my body was unvoluntarily harlem shaking against my will! A couple big thick warm blankets later and lots of deep breaths of oxygen and i was good to go.  In comes wifey, a bit of monitoring and off we go for the ride home. I gotta say my experience with cooley dickinson was the exact opposite as last time i had surgery there. Everyone was nice, caring, kind and you could tell they actually gave a shit what was going on around them.  

Stockings to eliminate blood clots in the legs. And they are sexy toO!

SMILE!

Pre surgery nap, Thanks to  IV FentanyL!


For anyone who is reading this and may ever have or thinking of having this surgyer, here is some items i HIGHLY reccommend you get and have at home prior to you returning home from surgery.

1. Make sure you have plent of either Ice pakcs, Gel packs or better yet rent or borrow a Cryocuff type machine. The best of these being the gameready machine which is a hefty price of $300 for 5 days.. EeK

2. Have towels near by that can easily be rolled up and stuffed next to your leg to keep it from moving. THe leg tends to tilt and it hurts VERY  bad if not propped with a pillow.  

3.  try and be as invisible as possible. I know during recovery you will need help from your spouse friends etc. But try not to be annoying and get on their nerves. Do as much as you can for yourself. Grab more than one drink and keep it next to you on your end table so you are not asking over and over again for help.

If anyone needs me Ill be hanging out with my good friends El Senor ice pack and Mr Oxycodone!... VIVA LA RASTA!!!!