Aumaden's Journal: On the mend

Wow, what a bruised and dinged bunch we make.

SW, all scraped and sprained,
TL, a bit scorched and seeing stars, and
me and my Technicolor shoulder.

Things learned:

• Your surgery is scheduled for noon. It's really between 1:30 and 3:00, but we need the extra time to ask you for your name, birth date, and what procedure you are having every time we see you. I only interacted with 6 people prior to my operation: Ann, in admissions; Ji Ji and Ellen the prep nurses; Carl the orderly who rolled me to the surgical suite; Dr Connors (anesthesiologist); and Dr Odgers (orthopedic surgeon), but between them, they asked who I was over a dozen times.
  
  I felt like saying "No, since you were last in my room, a mere 5 minutes ago, a covert black ops team swooped in and replaced me with someone completely different."
  
  (I understand the need to be sure whom you are working on, but a little use of short term memory would be nice.)
• You'll just feel a little little prick followed by much stinging and burning because we didn't wait for the alcohol to evaporate.
• We're just giving you something to help you relax, you'll be awake for the procedure. Yeah, if the procedure only consists of giving me the sedative. I got the sedative in my IV line, right before they rolled me into the OR. The last I remember is moving from the gurney to the operating table and them beginning to strap me to the table. (I need to find out what that sedative was because I'm awfully sensitive to it.)
• Some post surgical discomfort is to be expected. Doublespeak for: "It will feel like your shoulder is broken." Oh, and no one mentioned that my upper arm would be swollen to twice normal size or the Technicolor shades of pink, yellow, and purple.
• I will never be addicted to Oxycontin. That's the brand name for Oxycodone, the main ingredient in Percoset. Ugh, that's some nasty stuff. It left me feeling sick, constipated, and only partially relieved the pain. I'm now back on OTC naproxen sodium and feeling much better.

On the positive side, it turned out to be a pair of bone spurs: one under the AC joint and another interfering with the biceps tendon. Thankfully nothing involving the rotator cuff. So, as long as I don't overdue it, I should be out of this sling and in PT in about 4 weeks.

And that should be just in time to rack my first lager. Yea!

Ow.

[Some Woman]

Hope it heals quickly.

Who are you again? :^)