At this time next week, I'll be at a friends house recovering from surgery. After waiting a month, surgery is one a week away (And yes, I'm getting tired of all the jokes about surgery on April 1st. :-)
One week before surgery marks drug changes. I need to get off of ibuprofen and on acetaminophen (Tylenol). Ibu thins the blood, and that's not a good thing when you're going to be sliced open. Also have to quite the vitamins, as they may thin the blood a bit, but they just recommend you stop everything to be on the safe side.
I meet with the PA (physicians assistant) last week (postponed by a week due to my having the flu). They just want to make sure you're actually healthy enough to have surgery. One of those take the afternoon off appointments to see the doc for 10 minutes. ugh. the PA seemed competent enough - he'll be taking part in the surgery as well. Looked up his profile on the health care site - he's quite the overachiever. Not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing.
I also have a 'phone appointment' with anesthesia on Thursday. not sure if they'll have any real questions, or just want to remind me not to eat or drink before surgery.
I'll try and blog more before surgery. I'm sure the week left is going to fly buy and it'll be here before I know it.
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