The surgery went fine. The recovery is appearing to be going fine. It’s just the being laid-up part of it that sucks…
As an added bonus my abdomen is now a very unattractive color of yellow from what I’m presuming is iodine-based antibiotic… and, so far, doesn’t appear easy to wash off.
And while I don’t feel that bad (a marginal 5/10 on the happy-to-sad face chart) I also don’t feel that great. Percocet (be praised!) is likely the reason for feeling better than a 7, but unfortunately it does not do anything for the massive amounts of boredom I’m feeling at the moment. It’s beautiful outside, and so I’ve moved my sitting around to my front-porch where I’m enjoying the last hours of sunlight of the day.
To dissuade my boredom I have:
- Called family & friends, most of which were at work so couldn’t talk
- Read email (but thought answering might not be wise given how loopy I was feeling)
- Surfed the web (comix, facebook, blogs, etc.)
- Watched TV (M.A.S.H., Smallville, The Office, and Cloverfield… and I can take no more.)
- Read parts of my most recent book "Smart Choices" which is not really a fun read, so put it aside.
Surely those aren’t all of my options… back to searching for butt-based entertainment….
The yellow iodine-based stuff takes FOREVER to come off. Trust me.
Did they give you some of that lotion stuff that’s supposed to take it off? That works somewhat. Otherwise, wait until you shed new skin. ^_~
And you’re obviously drugged up. “Called family & friends, most of which were at work…” Most of *whom*. I think that’s right… :-p
Going grammatical on my drugged-up butt?
Unfortunately, I can’t blame it on the drugs… I was hoping that the codeine was going to help, not hurt.
And, no, they did not give me anything to wash that stuff off… I guess I’ll just have to wait for my new skin.