“Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization”
Late today and no weather report as I haven’t been outside. My travels are limited. I get a glimpse of the kitchen every now and then but most of my time is spent in the den. I do take a few side trips to the bathroom but they’re a necessity. A couple of naps break up the day. Gracie joins me on the couch. If I were little again, I’d probably be coloring or playing paper dolls.
My extensive medical background led me to believe the site of the incision would hurt. That it doesn’t, I find disconcerting. Mind you, I’m not complaining, just observing.
My hospital bed had a lovely view of the tops of two smaller buildings and a walkway between them. I consider it a personal triumph that I was never bored enough just to look. I didn’t read any papers while I was there, and I lost all word retrieval skills and managed to finish only the top third of a crossword puzzle from the book I bought. That last part hasn’t yet changed. I keep typing gobbledygoop, which I guess is appropriate given the season but triples or more my writing time while I try and figure out what in the heck I’m trying to say.
Well, my posts are small and will be for a bit until I live my life in less of a fog. I do admit, though, I’m not minding the fog.
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November 18, 2010 at 3:24 pm
Nice to have you back. Hope you’re feeling better soon.
s
November 18, 2010 at 3:42 pm
Thanks, S
I’ll be writing day to day depending on how I feel.
November 19, 2010 at 5:39 pm
S,
Happy to be back but sorry to say postings will have to be intermittent. Each day does get a bit better.
Thanks
November 18, 2010 at 3:53 pm
Welcome back to the land of the medically discharged.
November 19, 2010 at 5:40 pm
sblake,
I am thrilled to be among the numbers of the medically discharged.
November 18, 2010 at 4:30 pm
See, I think this is your chance to do wild musical postings that you could later blame on your medical condition. Alternatively, you could post nothing but PP&M until the Stookernator blew a gasket.
Additionally you have a unique opportunity not only to post strange and wonderful pictures of say crocodiles (my time in Ghana made me do it), and you could write lengthy prose (well 2 lines) on the Palins whose appetite for relentless self promotion is second only to the British Royal Family.
Enjoy the fog, it could be a special time
November 19, 2010 at 5:42 pm
My Dear Hedley,
You know what, I love the idea of using my drug enhanced state as an excuse for strange postings. The weird night dreams are a good start.
November 18, 2010 at 5:16 pm
Is it Brain Fog? To me that was worse and I took pills and put it to bed. I hate when I don’t make sense and my wife all but says you’re rambling. I’m good at taking hints. Glad you are back and on the mend. I hope your sisters stay with you until you are fully up to speed. I know I needed help for little things like finding a box of kleenex. Somehow those things become important in a lifestyle of recovery. Best to you Kat, we missed you a whola bunch.
November 19, 2010 at 5:44 pm
Z&Me,
I missed you just as much. I worried about my coffee family.
My sisters are leaving tomorrow. I will be living downstairs for the most part though I will venture upstairs for the shower and to feed the cats.
November 18, 2010 at 5:38 pm
So glad you are safe and sound at home, i’ve missed you a bunch and the rest of the coffee gang just as much!
so glad to hear from everyone today!!!
xoxxoxooxxooxx
November 19, 2010 at 5:45 pm
splendid,
I clicked my slippers and kept saying, “There’s no place like home, ” and it worked and there isn’t!
November 18, 2010 at 6:54 pm
While in the hospital, after surgery, they give you all kinds of drugs. Some are for pain while others kill your short term memory. Glad that you can even put two thoughts together to write this blog. Glad to have you back.
November 19, 2010 at 5:47 pm
Bob,
I’m still on those pills, and I am having trouble pulling the correct words out of my cranial lexicon. Worst of all is my two fingered typing-I don’t even know what I mean.
November 18, 2010 at 10:50 pm
Good to see you’re back! Best wishes for a quick and full recovery.
November 19, 2010 at 5:47 pm
Thanks, Michal
Home is the best place to recuperate.
November 18, 2010 at 11:19 pm
Are You still on pain killers? That would make You foggy in the head too 🙂 The ones I got didn´t stop the pain as much as it gave me gases. My room mate and I farted all night long so we stopped taking them.
The hospital was placed just beside a mountain and we had a great view towards it from our window, one day we saw a big moose walk around there.
I´m glad You are back again 🙂
Take it easy!
Christer.
November 19, 2010 at 5:48 pm
Christer,
I’m still on the pain killers. The pain gets pretty intense at times and my jaw hurts from being gritted.
November 19, 2010 at 9:26 am
Like the other Coffeeaddicts, glad you’re back. Fog has its functions; heck, it gave London and SF their atmospheres, and Sandburg a poem.
There’s a brighter day a-comin tho; Gracie, when she thinks its medically appropriate, will get you off the couch and into nice walks thru the Cape winter. Watch out for ice.
November 19, 2010 at 5:49 pm
J.
Gracie follows me around and when I give a yelp she stands looking at me with her head cocked. Funny dog!
I know it’s better every day.
November 19, 2010 at 7:03 pm
Hi, Kat. I hope that fog lifts soon! Still, it’s nice to go on a little “trip” sometimes!! No doubt all that medication will inspire you to write even more beautiful articles ! All the very best…P.
November 20, 2010 at 7:47 pm
Hello!!!
I’m laughing as these are such wonderful trips just as you expected!
November 19, 2010 at 7:08 pm
I’m glad you are home. Home is the best place to recover. Fog is okay sometimes, as you’ve said. I just had cataract surgery ( no big deal), but I found somehow it hurt by very being.. I’m not taking anything and I think what I just wrote may be foggy. Take good care.
November 20, 2010 at 7:46 pm
Lori,
I so happy to be home. Gracie barely leaves my side and Fern thinks my hip is a perfect spot for sleeping.
At least the fog will lift!
November 20, 2010 at 10:16 pm
Gracie is a good dog nurse! Fern would think that. I hope the pain isn’t too bad and you can take something for it. Home is really the best place, as you’ve said… oh dear, I could click my heals three times…
Take Care,
Lori and Jewels
November 20, 2010 at 1:02 pm
Hi Kat,
I hope your recovery is swift. Please don’t respond to this, use that time to relax.
Steve
November 20, 2010 at 9:32 pm
Awww! I haven’t been here in a while, so I wasn’t aware that you were having surgery. Please take care of yourself and don’t worry about us! Come back if/when you are able. Will send up prayers, my friend! XOXO
November 21, 2010 at 12:33 pm
Rita,
I’ll try and post most days but it will be later in the morning after the pains work their magic.
November 23, 2010 at 6:01 pm
Glad you’re back — take it easy, enjoy the holidays, and most importantly GET BETTER!