So, I'm in the recovery stages the past few days. Surgery is not what it was when I was a kid. These people have it down to a science - get you in the door, take care of business, cut, fix, stitch, and kick you out the door before you're aware of anything that hurts. With a prescription for pain killers in hand there is little need for listening to the complaints after the fact. Not that they don't do an amazing good job of it, they DO, its just that you had better be paying close attention or you're going to miss it.
This is the third time in 3 years. Little stuff. Trigger finger. Kidney Stone, Thyroid. Well, maybe not so little, but at least I'm keeping things spaced out about a year or so apart from the last. But this I have noted - Whatever it is that "THEY" say about that surgery - it nothing compared to your first hand experience after the fact.
So, "They say you're going to be up and back to work in just 2 days". You have got to be kidding!! Two days after that Kidney Stone Surgery, I was thinking that there was no amount of pain killer in the world that was going to put me together again. Who are "THEY:" kidding?? and how do I get my hands on those THEY people long enough to throttle them for giving me those expectations?? I should have learned well before the third time through this that there is one solid rule regarding anything medical and surgery in particular.
Whatever THEY say, you can expect recovery is best ruled by the same formula computer programmers use: to estimate a job. Double the number and go to the next time incremental. (1 hour? estimate 2 days. 2 weeks? better plan for 4 months!) Happy recovery!
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