Today’s surgery was scheduled for 12:30. I had to be there at 10:30. The purpose of the surgery is to get a lymph node biopsy from my neck on the right side, and to install a single lumen port for chemo. The people in the surgery prep area were very nice. Jacqui and I played a few games of Skip-bo while we were waiting. The nurse gave me some antibacterial wipes to clean my chest off with, and they made my skin very dry and sticky.
After a while a nurse named Nicholas came to wheel me off to surgery. Jacqui and I said our goodbyes, and Nicholas and I went into the surgery area, where I got to speak with Dr. Zirkle, the surgeon who would be working on me, and Dr. Beamer(sp?), the anesthesiologist, who was a very helpful guy. He hunted down the results of my PET scan(which had good news), and gave them to me right before I was sedated. It was nice to feel good going into surgery.
When I woke up, Jacqui was right there next to me. She did an amazing job of taking care of me. The nurse gave me a Percocet for pain, and then remarked that “I was funny” on pain meds.
Everyone has their special talent, I guess. There were large bandages covering my neck and shoulders, which was very good, because I was not interested in seeing what things looked like underneath.
After spending enough time in the recovery room, Jacqui went to get the car, and the nurse put me in a wheelchair and took me out to where Jacqui was waiting with the car. It’s been awhile since I’ve ridden in a wheelchair. After we got home, I had expected to go to sleep, but to my surprise I was very alert and active, even though I was on Percocet. I realized that this was because the doctor had given me MAC anesthesia, so I was not as heavily sedated.
I go to see the surgeon again on Wednesday morning, so he can make sure everything went well with the surgery.
got percocet after, was high as a kite…
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