glad today is over...

so I got to have my hernia repaired this morning via surgery, which was outpatient thankfully. Except for the fact that just like last time I had out patient surgery I was the first one there that morning and the last one to leave. Really, the nurses were getting ready to head home and were trying to decide if they should admit me to the hospital overnight or send me home. Since I'm writing this, you can probably guess they sent me home, but it was a LONG day! My problem is that anesthesia always makes me super sick, no matter how much anti-nausea stuff they give me, and they can't (or won't) send you home if you can't sit up with out losing everything you have tried to eat (which in my case was just water...) Sorry, that was probably more details than you needed :) Needless to say I was pretty miserable all day, but the surgery went well and is over. I'm home in my own bed now and have been given excellent care by my wonderful and incredibly patient fiance who filled prescriptions, made me laugh (mostly by threatening to do different things to me to see what happened on my heart monitor--he got the biggest jump in heart rate when he threatened to tickle my feet--which for those who know me well will not be surprised by this fact!), helped me balance when I couldn't sit up on my own, drove me home, and has me set up in my bed with my phone, laptop, 7-up and blankets. I was told my job was to lay there and not appear like I was dying. Which was not all that easy at first, I am still in a LOT of pain, but I'm hoping pain pills will help...

So that was my exciting day, being in the hospital from 6 AM til 3, and then not being able to sit up really since getting home, but I at least wanted to let you all know I survived =) I now have some cool looking incisions and am hernia-free :) (and get to let other people carry everything for me for the next 6 weeks...rough life....!)