Surgery & Drugs

ok, so I had yet another back surgery this past Friday.  Saturday afternoon, they were sending me on my way home.  Yes, I was a bit sore, but you'll have that.  So, all is going well until Sunday afternoon when I started to feel "odd".  ODD is the only way to describe it, I sorta had the chills off and on  and then had this horrific headache.  I knew there was something off.  So, I get up on Monday morning.... early..... something like 4 am .... I stood up,  and I've got bandages full of blood falling off my back.  Yep, I wake Jeff up and tell him, it's off to the ER.  So, It's Thursday and I'm still in the hospital taking, IV, IM, And PILL antibiotics for infection.  Yes it is a staff infection and it's MRSA.  Thats one of the worst types of staff infections.

The pain from the infection sucks.  The Dr. put me on a Morphine DRIP....WOOO-HOO!  Makes me giggle a lot.  I'm trying to keep light of this whole thing.  It's gonna be a minute before I'm better, but I'm sure I'll be back to my old self before to long.  We are just waiting for this stupid infection to get under control.  Hard telling with that one.  If they feed me high amounts of tylenol we can get the fever to break.  However, that is short lived as my temp starts climbing again within about 2 hours.

At regular intervals I step out for a smoke break.  There are usually 3-4 others out there with me.  The hospital is supposed to be a "non-smoking campus".  And, the cigarette police (yes, they actually have them) do keep a lock down on it.  But they seem to give us patients a bit of leeway as we can't really walk the 1/4 mile to the edge of the campus.  Besides, they'd have to sit and watch us the whole time and then have to drive us back one at a time because we would be to tired to make the long trek again.  I just think they want out of the babysitting duty! lol

The nursing staff here at St. Rita's on the 5th floor (the women's surgical floor) really are quite nice.  As long as you don't pester them every-other-minute with stupid shit, they'll pretty much get you whatever you ask for.

The kids are being little tyrants at the moment.  It seems that just because mom isn't there to keep a close eye on them, they think that they can do whatever they want.  So, tonight when they came in to see me, they got an earful that I am sure they will have a hard time forgetting anytime soon.

and so there you have it.  thats the bit of news on me.  I think I'm gonna copy paste this one into an e-mail as well so everyone gets the latest news.  TATA FOR NOW!