There For I Have Awakend

            I hadn't really paid attention to my surroundings much. I hadn't looked at my body just yet. The first site of my body, it scared me so much. I have tubes, wires, and a bunch of staples. I would say about 30 or so. When the surgeon came in the next day he changed my dressing. When I tell you this it's not lie, the most scariest thing I have ever experienced so far in my life.            My surgeon started to slowly pull my dressing off my wound. This was it. This was the first time I would see what the damage was. I felt damaged. As he pulled the dressing off I saw my scar started maybe a few inches down from my chest. I noticed what looked like some sort of rope. It almost reminded me of a leather purse stitch. I was actually intrigued by this. I still hadn't come to terms what had been happening. I just new I had a long recovery. As my surgeon looks over my wounds, he checked out the dressing on my jpouch tube...

                                                The last thing I remember was being brought into the OR and remembering how cold it was and I heard music in the background. Before you knew it the anesthesiologist came up behind me and put oxygen on. They must have put something in my IV to put me me under because before I knew it, I was out.                      My first tiny memory I had was when I was being transferred from the operation room to recovery was me singing "Old McDonald had a farm, ei ei o".  I honestly don't know how long it was till I was awake and aware of my surroundings. The first thing I felt was my wife giving me a foot rub. It was amazing. If I could ask anyway to be woken up, this would be it.  On a side note they also had these massage leg massagers to put on your l...

     I got to the the room where they prepare you to go the OR. There was the nurses that were prepping me for surgery. When I got to that room the head nurse of the whole hospital was in there. I had met her prior because they couldn't get my veins and she could not as well. So I had to get one of those ultrasound IVs. So back to what I was saying, the head nurse was in there was not happy. Before I was sent down to prepare for surgery, the nurse on my floor prior was supposed to put me on antibiotics before I left the floor. The nurse I had downstairs was new and was way behind schedule. When the head nurse found that out, she went back downstairs. She was not happy.        My anesthesiologist came in to start to prep me. He was  going to be putting a epidural in the middle of my back. I honestly was very scared at first. I figured though that if I could go through this pain, I could get an epidural. So he had me sit up and lean fo...