The Big Day!! 10/16/08

Well, Happy B-Day to me. I cant think of a better gift to give myself than that of surgery! I'm excited, nervous and anxious. Everything rolled into one. Everyone at the James/OSU has been awesome. I can't even say enough things about all of them! The radiologist that injects me with the 'radionuclide' is running a tad bit late, so I'm told at 100pm I'll be getting injected with radioactive dye and having a wire inserted in me then be prepped for surgery. Just met my Anthesiologist, he was cool, nurses inserted my IV. I was supposed to go into surgery at 200pm but I see that the hospital runs like the airlines, late, never on time!!! So I bid farewell to my parents who just got here from Y-Town, and Dan is the lucky one that gets to stay with me till they wheel me to the Operating room. Good bye to Dan at 315pm, a little injection into the IV that makes me feel like I've been to El Vaquero for an adult beverage and off I go to the cold cold OR!! The staff ask me to scooch over onto the table...I look and laugh..."uh yeah..right" " which cheek?" they all laugh....as I scoot over on this cold cotton covered metal plank. The clear green gas mask goes over my nose and mouth. I state that I am having trouble breathing...so she lifts it up just a bit. Big huge 'hollywood' lights hang from the ceiling, staring down at me like a cat about to pounce on its prey. I feel giddy.....ok I'm out! Surgery begins. 3 hours later Im out of surgery and 2 1/2 hours later Im out of recovery. I see Dan and my parents. Ok Im feeling good. My throat hurts more than anything. Guess they had trouble shoving that tube down my throat. So now I sound like a woman who smoked a carton a day!