Well, the surgery was yesterday and I did swimmingly. The overall experience was pretty good. My anesthesiologist asked me what I did for a living and I told I'm I was a university professor, and he was like "you're pretty young to be a professor." To which I responded, "You're pretty young to be an anesthesiologist." Come to find out, we're both 32. lol As I was wheeled into the surgery room, he had some modern music playing that we both knew. Unfortunately, that music quickly turned to jazz as the surgeon actually came in (clear generational difference).

After the surgery, I was doing pretty good pretty fast. I was up and walking within an hour and a half after surgery. I was just antsy and wanted to walk. I coughed a lot though - I really did not like the intubation - really scratched my throat.

While my surgery was at 9AM, I didn't get to leave until around 4. The surgeon had 9 surgeries yesterday, so he was a little busy all day long and couldn't get up to the unit to discharge us.

The worst part of the afternoon was going down to x-ray because of the barium. Earlier in my blog I had noted that the barium wasn't that bad tasting - I now totally have to qualify this statement. Apparently, some people are nice enough to give you flavored barium that doesn't taste like ass. Unfortunately, yesterday I received the barium that tasted like ass. The worst part was that I couldn't get the taste out of my mouth no matter how many ounces of water I drank. I finally got it out last night around 8 when I broke down and had some flavored Chrystal light.

I can honestly say that my experience yesterday was overall extremely positive. The surgical team, the follow staff, and the hospital personnel were all very helpful.

This weekend, I'm on a pretty strict clear liquid diet to let everything settle. Thankfully, I don't feel hungry at all. As my doctor constantly says, "Nothing tastes as good as thin feels."

that was funny, it taste like ass, i am cracking up, you have made my day. wish you good luck on your journey,i,m still laughing my ass off. ha, ha.smile.

hope you have a speedy recovery..take care..