I'm staying up as late as possible tonight (Monday) to eat as much solid food as I can (lots of Mom's leftovers in the fridge.)
Tomorrow, I'm on a clear-liquid diet until 2:00 when I start "preparing my bowels" for surgery. That's all I'm going to write on that subject......
I'm definitely going to have the coolest (and largest) scar of anyone I know. I may have to have a contest to see who can come up with the best story for the scar. Off the top of my head, I'm thinking shark bite.
I'm the first patient on Wed so let's hope the surgeon has a nice quiet evening tomorrow and gets a good night's sleep. We want him to have steady hands and not hit any critical nerves that just happen to run right next to those wonderful lymph nodes he will be chopping out. And for those of you that don't know, control the most critical organ in the male body - no not the brain but the same number of letters and starts with a "P" and ends with an "ENIS"
The good news is that when I wake up I will have an epidural for pain (just like all my lady friends who are having babies) which will combat the tubes up my nose and into my stomach along with the catheter (can you spell O-U-C-H......)
The biggest potential issue are those temperamental intestines that don't take kindly to being taken out of the abdomen / pushed aside so the surgeon can chop out the problematic lymph nodes and then (hopefully) put back in their original resting place......
I'm hoping to be texting / emailing by Fri and fighting with the docs to go home on Sat and eventually going home on Sun......
I asked the docs to do 1 favor for me. SPONGE BATH FROM A HOT NURSE!!!!!!!! You'd think with a brother-in-law who is a "head nurse" at the Clinic and all the chatting up I did through Chemo that someone would be able to pull a few strings and hook a guy up..... Let's hope....
OK- time for my next meal.....gotta go
- CIAO,
Mr. Clean
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I hope the leftovers were great and all your other wishes come true too. Hang in there for the final push to your cure.
We'll be sending our love, prayers and thoughts!
Aunt Diane
Ron,
All of us in Santa Barbara are sending our best thoughts that your
experience will be a good one .........with the hot nurse/sponge bath of course......What else would we be concerned about?,..we know the surgery will go great.
Phil
How did the surgery go? Did they find what they were looking for, remove it completely, and put everything else back just as they found it? Cliff and I have been thinking of you extra and often these past few days. We are praying that everything is going your way now, including the spunge bath by the hot nurse! We love you and are sending happy healing thoughts your way. Xoxo Winnie
Any news on how Ron's surgery went?
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