{"id":66,"date":"2005-06-27T17:19:17","date_gmt":"2005-06-28T00:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jsholmes31.wordpress.com\/2005\/06\/27\/surgery-went-well"},"modified":"2005-06-27T17:19:17","modified_gmt":"2005-06-28T00:19:17","slug":"surgery-went-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.forawesome.net\/blog\/2005\/06\/surgery-went-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Surgery went well"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I had my surgery today. It went well. No blown up arms or skin falling off or any of that monkey-business.<\/div>\n
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I woke up at 5, got showered with some antibacterial Dial and headed to the UW Surgery Pavillion for my 6am checkin time. My father met me there and in maybe two minutes they called my name.<\/div>\n
I went back into the pre-op waiting room and they gave me one of those smocks to change into (the kind without much of a back). Then I waited on the bed, a nurse came by and asked lots of questions, then another nurse came by and asked a small subset of the first nurse’s questions. <\/div>\n
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Eventually the anestheiologist came (an M.D. Ph.D. according to her nametag — turns out her Ph.D. is in neural anatomy, which we discussed a bit) and asked me some more questions. Her funniest question was whether I had caps or fronts or something else on my teeth. I didn’t really understand the question. I said, "They’re just normal teeth." She seemed stunned by this. She thought they were some of the best looking teeth she’d ever seen. To be fair, she was a bit obsessive.<\/div>\n
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Anyway, she put an IV into my hand, explained everything they were going to do and what drugs they were going to use, etc. Then she offered me a drug cocktail to ease any anxiety I might be having. I told her I’d love it after I got a chance to talk to the surgeon a bit.<\/div>\n
Let me tell you this: if an anesthesiologist offers to give you a drug cocktail to ease your anxiety, you should accept. Good stuff!<\/div>\n
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A few minutes later, they wheeled me into the operating room and within about 20 seconds I was out. Next thing I know I woke up in the recovery room a bit groggy with a big bandage on my neck. Maybe 30 minutes later I was feeling basically fine. I had some applesauce and tapioca pudding (a very tasty treat, I must say, in this mental state) and then my dad drove me home.<\/div>\n
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The surgeon told me that it would take about 5 days to get results from the pathologist. They were able to rule one thing out quickly (squamous cell carcinoma), but the rest of it would take a while longer to run tests, etc.<\/div>\n
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So now I just wait a week to hear the good news.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had my surgery today. It went well. No blown up arms or skin falling off or any of that monkey-business. \u00a0 I woke up at 5, got showered with some antibacterial Dial and headed to the UW Surgery Pavillion for my 6am checkin time. 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