Sore sarah… Author: Mary

hi everybody! thank you so, much for all the great comments and well wishes! i have sarah on the phone now. she’s sore from her surgery. and her throat hurts because, they had to put a tube down her throat for the surgery. i read to her all the comments she got and she’s so, grateful to everyone. she was able to have ice cream! first food in 84 hours! she says she feels like shit and that she’s sore and that it hurts to swallow. but, other then that she seems to be ok. poor thing has to whisper though because, it also hurts to talk. but, i had her on the phone to read all of your comments to her and find out what else she needs. that’s about it for now. but, i’ll be back with more updates later.

My Gallbladder was a Bitch

I am home. I am in a lot of pain. A LOT OF PAIN. The surgeon said I need to rest at home for about a week — week and a half. I am in pain. Have I mentioned the PAIN?

I am not mentally all there yet, so yeah love everyone and thats not the morphine talking.

PAIN

Painful Rambling

Sitting hurts but I know I have to do it, not to mention I’m having to chase my son around since well… who else is going to do it? So I haven’t really had any rest or pain relief, I am too scared to take my pain killers because what if my son needs me and I’m all drugged up?

Hmm, trying to think of hospital “highlights”

• one of the ER doctors was utterly convinced I was doing cocaine
• my roommate never ever turned off the damn tv or lights even when the nurses would get on her case, she would just turn everything back on
• I did not eat any food and very limited water for around 87 hours before the surgery and really haven’t eaten much after it
• in the operating room, they didn’t do the dramatic “now here is the anesthesia, count to 10” instead the last thing that happened was putting on the oxygen mask and hearing the song on the radio, Everytime by Britney Spears
• I don’t remember too much from the recovery period except I was screeching “NINE NINE NINE” aka the “pain” level I was having on a scale from 1 – 10, I’m told it’s like the seagulls in finding nemo
• hollaring for “HAND HAND” whenever my sister or her boyfriend would drop my hand
• wishing that my mp3 player had soothing music instead of perky loud music, not conductive to shutting out the tv and roommate’s very loud snoring

I can’t remember much more lol have to love that morphine!

I am so grateful for the phone calls and comments and just EVERYTHING from everyone, it really helped me a lot.

Going Nocturnal

Since all of this surgery stuff happened, I’ve reverted back to my nocturnal nature. This is going to be the end of me come next week when I try to go back to work!

I am totally going to watch Oprah tomorrow since it’s a subject so dear and close to my heart.

Oh dear gods. One of my brother’s friends just called me. I don’t even know which one. Apparently my brother gave him my number. I am not sure why. Apparently I met this guy before and he wanted my number? Uhhh ok… well that just made my week all the more interesting.

The only plus side to you know… starving and having an organ removed is somehow I’ve lost around 5-6lbs. I’ve eaten not so good since I’m not able to go to the grocery store, which is going to change tomorrow even if I have to give my sister my card to go to the grocery store. I feel full faster because my stomach shrank and well… nothing can make you feel not hungry than looking at all of the incisions and bruising! Oh, on that note, anyone have a simple script to input and show my water intake? I have to do better, it’s not that I drink other fluids, it’s that I don’t drink ANYTHING, I just tend to… forget and ignore my thirsty feelings.

Mother’s Day is this upcoming Sunday… uhh I wouldn’t mind getting a card… present… a car… you know whatever!

Heh, I just realised how creepy this entry mere hours before I landed up in the emegency room is. There I was mulling over my mortality fear and BAM in the ER and end up having an organ removed. Good times.

Bookmarks and Extensions

I just killed my firefox and lost all of my bookmarks and extensions so for all that is holy please share a billion bookmarks and your favorite firefox extensions!

Pictures

Yeah new design.

Today has sucked.

I am going back to work tomorrow.

Beatles Radio

Right now I’m listening to Beatles Radio. Anyone who knows me knows I am freaking in heaven right now. Right now, John Lennon — Instant Karma. My personal God. Oh how I love thee! *swoon*

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OMG Sean Connery reciting “In My Life”

*sobs hysterically and worships*

Doctor Appointment

I have an appointment with the surgeon at 4pm today and I’m trying to figure out how to get there. Yay for stress.

Work Sucks Already

So as soon as I come in there are 2 cancellations, Chris (sewer guy) never told me he sold a job so I am having to do a rush JULIE ticket, not to mention since I was under the impression he did not sell a job, so I scheduled more than normal sewer calls to drum up work. Not to mention I told Chris about the full schedule of calls and he then tells me he is going to be in to work at 9:30am due to “stomach” issues. Ok… so he’s at current count, 5 minutes late.

Well then Jason asks me to find an address in Lake Forest where he is supposed to repair ashphalt. Ok… so we can’t find it in the computer, invoices book, nothing! So I call the public works over there and they say they don’t have anything about it. Jason tells Joe and Colleen (bosses/owners) and they start yelling at us to check the job book again, the oldest one, so I do, find one entry for Lake Forest, turns out it’s the wrong one. So I go back 2 years in Colleen’s computer looking for it and can’t find it. Now, being the owner’s, being the people that knew about this ashphalt that’s supposed to be put back, don’t you think they should KNOW the address?

SO yeah now I am exhausted from running around the office looking for a single address.

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And yet again Chris is trying to pit me against the bosses, first he told them that Todd (other sewer guy) was paying me off to give him the better calls. Um no. Well Joe just keyed me up on the radio asking where Chris was. I said “he called and told me he would be 1 — 1 1/2 hours late…” then Joe cuts me off “when were you going to tell me why is he late” Me: “He told me he had severe stomach issues” and why the hell would I think that Chris WOULD NOT contact his superiors that he would be late? Why is it MY responsibility? I’M JUST THE RECEPTIONIST!!!!

Jury Duty

Well, I just faxed over a letter to the jury duty administrator, explaining that 1. I just had emergency gallbladder removal surgery 2. I am not able to obtain childcare for my son

Hopefully that will be sufficant in removing me from standby juror status. I will be extremely pissed off if otherwise.