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The Surgery

As many of you know I went into surgery this past friday and I got out today. (Sunday). Sandy and I went to Pitt Memorial in Greenville NC at 5:30 am friday morning. I was in pre-op within a hour or so and in surgery by around 7 30 am I can best guess. I remeber being in pre-op and having the entire surgery team stopping by and different times to discuss what was gonna be done. For those that forgot I was having C6-7 in my neck fused. They took the disc out and put in a piece of bone and fused it all together . I now have C4-7 fused in my neck. So anyway I meet the entire surgical team and they give me a pre shot. That is the last thing I remeber till I got to my room after the surgery. I remeber a couple things from the recovery room. Like seeing my mother and Sandy but then I dont remeber anything. The first real thoughts I can remeber was being in my room I would be in for the next few days. Sandy says the doc came and saw her after I was out of surgery. He told her they had to give me more drugs during the surgery cause I woke up in the middle of it and tried to sit up. Funny thing is I did the exact same thing when I had surgery on my knee. So I guess it takes a lil bit more to keep me under. So now I am out of surgery and am in my room. I wake up with all this stuff attached to me. Things wrapped around my legs to keep from having blood clots form there. A tube coming out of my neck to get blood where they went into my neck. Heart monitors to keep a eye on that. A thing on my finger keeping a eye on they oxygen in my blood and a air mask on my face. Not to mention the morphine drip and IV in my hands to give me meds and saline. Needless to say I had alot of shit hooked up lol. I don't think I could ever do the nurses justice. They were above and beyond some of the best I have ever dealt with. They were on top of everything the whole time. One thing I noticed is that in most hospitals that I have been in you might get a few nurses on a entire hall to keep eye on patients. At Pitt the rooms were made into pods. 4 rooms to a pod and each pod had 3 nurses apiece. So you had one on one nurses big time. Anytime I hit the nurses call button someone was there in a minute. I never had to wait for anything. That made my stay a whole lot easier. Sandy god bless her was with me. She stayed long as she could friday. Went to work and came back and slept in a recliner friday night. Saturday she went to work from the hospital and came back and by then the nurses had gotten her a cot so she slept in that saturday night. I had told her to go home to sleep but she would not hear of it. She was not gonna leave me up there alone. I also got visits from my mother,grandfather,lil nephew and my sister and I loved seeing them all. Those some of the visits I was a bit dozed in. I also got a bunch of calls from people and I appreciate each of them. Went through saturday and was able to get up and get a few walks in with the nurses help. I took small trips around the ward. Then back to bed and hooked back up again to all the stuff. I slept off and on and watched TV. I got to watch the race saturday night and fell back asleep before i could even see the post race interviews. Got woke up a few times at night to be given meds and what not. They finally took the line out of my neck saturday night and cut the stitches away from that. By sunday morning I had everything unhooked from me. Was free to move around on my own then. Sunday morning the nurses wake us up around 7:30 am and say I am free to go. They knew we wanted to leave early so we could pick up the girls for mothers day. One nurse even stayed past her shift to help get us going. So we left and we got back here. The day has gone good. I can tell I need to keep up with the meds. The pain is horrible and I did not realize how much the morphine drip was keeping the pain off me. Now I realize that lil point lol. Gotten alot of calls and messages online from friends and family and God bless everyone for getting in touch with me. I really do cherish everyones concern and can't say enough thank yous to everyone. Well thats been my weekend. Finally clead my head enough to do this real quick. Hope all my friends and family are doing good and thank everyone for the good wishes. RON
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