Surgery Done - Home and Pain pills new best friend

Wow what a busy last two weeks.

Spent a week in Los Angeles with my son and visited with Scholz, Lam and Turner while I was out there. Came home and spent this last week with 3 medical trips to Orlando capped off with hernia surgery yesterday.

Rough night last night but I didn't have to set a clock for taking pain pills every 4 hours. My body set the time table and woke me every couple of hours to make sure I took the pain pills on time. Sort of reminded me of my da Vinci surgery 5 years ago. Not sure yet but I think this one may be a little tougher for the next couple of days.

I spent Thursday getting all the heavy stuff loaded in the RV for the trip north to GFMPH. Won't get much done for a few days except making lists of the rest that needs to go in the RV for the trip. Post surgery appt on Monday Sept 8th and leave here on the the 9th.

I am really looking forward to the planned 5-6 week trip. Hopefully I will be able to lay aside all things medical for that time. Really going to try hard to put Pca aside, because when I get home I will have to figure out what's next given that the S1216 trial didn't work for me.

Not sure today will be a "Bonus Day" except for the fact that the hernia surgery is done and I can be on the mend. I do know that I will be playing the "hernia" card in NY, some of you guys will have to pick up the slack on splitting logs for the nightly camp fires in NY. LOL

Sonny

So glad to hear surgery went well. Don't overdo it loading the RV. We will see you in Hilton.

Sonny, I am glad you are on the other side of this surgery. Hoping you can recover quickly so you can referee the working bees in NY. Hug your bride often!

David gives you some good advice Sonny. I will pack my axe for splitting wood, just not sure that I can get it on the plane.

My first night after surgery for hernia repair was the most difficult and then after that I didn't need the pain meds. However my surgery was laparoscopic and not open surgery. Take care of yourself and play it safe as you will need some time to heal. See you in NY.
Michael

Sonny -

One of the nice things about hernia surgery is that it's the kind of surgery that will heal completely. That was my experience.

A few weeks from now (and certainly within a couple of months or so) you'll be as good as new with no lingering SEs, like the surgery never happened.

Just take it easy for now, do everything you were told to do, and things will be fine.

Sonny - I am only 2 hours away.

So if that list you make looks too daunting, Karen and I can come over for a day trip.

Have to give me the shout out early though, as I leave Sept 4 for UCLA to have my gold fiducials placed, CT scans and then an appointment that afternoon with our common doctor, Jeff Turner.

Friday to Sunday I am an the annual PCRI conference at LAX Marriott.

I do get home on 7th and you don't leave til the 9th, but Karen would use Startech's axe on me if I was gone on her Sept 8 birthday.

Anytime between now and Sept 3 is fine though.

Hell we might want to come over one day anyway just to see you and Sherry before your trip. If there's no heavy lifting to be done, so much the better.

I might give you a set of our winter clothes for your RV to transport for us saving airport check in, for our use in Rochester that I won't be needing before then here in sunshine state.

Even though we are a few hours NW of BigMac and Lorna, as Bill said, the only season of Fall we see is at GFMPH Rochester.

Thanks for the phone call last night alerting me to the typo on another thread - fixed it.

LupronJim

So happy to hear that your surgery went without incident!

Take care of yourself and follow doctor's orders. When you get the urge to do something that you shouldn't be doing....behave yourself. :)

Oh, and since you woke up to tell us about it, it's a bonus day in our book.

Hugs and love sent your way!

Thanks for sharing the "Good News". Every small step after a surgery is a milestone.

Hope you'll be comfortable driving that big RV up north.

Bill from Florida