Saturday, September 21, 2002

im back, rebuilt, and far

im back, rebuilt, and far improved.  they gave me general anesthesia and encountered a slight complication that required a few more pins, but no external fixation.  once i awoke i had a clinically unusually high discomfort response for several hours.  i got pumped way way full of morpheine and torredol or something and adavan and something else too i think, a rainbow of opiates coursing through my veins, which, techs have been quick to inform me, eyes wide with awe, are proud and huge and bulging.  i was kept overnight and wiled away the wee hours with my pain management button - this one released more morpheine in chunky doses (unlike the one i use back at the hut).  i got home yesterday afternoon and now the slow part has begun in earnest.  two weeks with my elbow bent in a plaster cast, and then i graduate to a splint.  the worst part of all was missing all the lovely binging on the patio, so i guess things could have gone a lot worse.

now let me never speak of it again.