The 13 Drill
1. A couple of days after having laparoscopic surgery to remove a 12-centimeter benign cyst on my liver, my grandsons came to visit. I filled up a balloon with water to show them how big the removed cyst was. After we looked at, we threw it out a second story window and watched it break open.
2. “Operating rooms are like runways, I wrote in a post called Not the Most Patient Patient. The surgery was scheduled late and then we waited a few hours on top of that to get in the operating room. With no food and water, I was a mess and later wrote, “Joe and I felt like we were crammed on a plane and stuck on a tarmac for 6 hours waiting for take-off.”
3. The plane metaphor continued during the first days of recovery at home when I discovered the pain was so severe that I had to sleep sitting up in a chair!
4. Joe says my recovery has moved through the infant stage, – crying and needing help with everything, to the adolescence stage – saying ‘I don’t care’ a lot and living on comfort food, like tea and toasted bagels with peanut butter and jelly and gelato.
5. The Poem: It dangles like a hangnail / that hurts to write / Brushes like a mystery / up against me / Like a thread through a needle / stopped by a knot / It pulls me like a craving / for what I can’t live without
6. I’m sure the above poem is a about how bad a poem wants to be written, but the fact that I was in pain when I wrote it had an influence.
7. I’m not always kind but I’m never mean! – My comment after reading a poem about developing kindness, and my new trademark, I think.
8. Pizzaz or Pizza?
9. “We have everyone here from master naturalists, clubs and organization, yoga practitioners to a neuro-surgeon.” – Check out my story for The Floyd Press on the second annual Floyd Health and Wellness Fair HERE.
10. What was in that oxygen? The last thing I remember was an oxygen mask on my face. When I came to, I was dreaming that I was part of the team working on my own surgery. I can’t remember if I actually said “Is Trump still president?” or whether I was telling the story of what actually happened last year after my first colonoscopy. – From Not the Most Patient Patient.
11. Fox news gives the fox a bad name.
12. Woody Woodpecker’s laugh is now a ringtone. Listen HERE.
13. And it’s not surprising to me that Sinclair, the local TV stations pushing Trump propaganda and requiring their newscasters to read from promo scripts denigrating other news as “fake,” has the word “sin” right in it.
________Thirteen Thursday
April 18th, 2018 7:30 pm
I said pretty much the same thing as your #11 to my son the other day … he was talking about the red foxes they have near their urban neighborhood (in CO)….. and earlier in the conversation we’d discussed politics and what was wrong with the world …. so yeah, #11.
I’m glad you’re progressing through the stages and hope you keep on with no setbacks (although it might not actually be too bad to live in adolescence for a while — as long as somebody brings you everything you need and doesn’t insist that it’s time for you to adult).
April 18th, 2018 11:22 pm
I’ve waited long days for surgery when you’re so hungry and thirsty. And you can’t sleep! I wish they would just give you some “goofy” medicine and at least let you enjoy the waiting! LOL Pizzaz or Pizza> I pick pizza!
April 19th, 2018 3:43 am
so glad you are making progress in your recovery and hope all hints of discomfort are gone soon and you are feeling energized and back to moving about at your normal pace. yikes at the size of that cyst! is there any understanding of what causes this particular issue and/or is there anything to add or remove from your diet that will help discourage further episodes in the future? I like joe’s description! keeping you in my thoughts, colleen.
April 19th, 2018 8:22 am
I want that ringtone but will not come on my phone
April 19th, 2018 8:32 am
I am glad to hear that you are doing better! I really like what Sallie wrote about staying in the adolescent stage for awhile longer.
I want that ring tone too! How do you get it on your phone ?
April 19th, 2018 9:26 am
Polycystic liver has a hereditary component. Many people have cysts on the liver but don’t know because they only cause problems if they get big. I was told they don’t know why they get big. They aren’t hormone driven like cysts on the ovaries are.
April 19th, 2018 9:47 am
Pizza with pizzaz?
April 19th, 2018 11:14 am
“Operating rooms are like runways,” she says. He’s seen a few himself: https://rlavalette.wordpress.com/2017/02/09/habeas/
April 19th, 2018 3:06 pm
Had too many operations myself. I hope you feel better soon. Don’t hurry the recovery. Thinking of you.