I have received several emails from many of you wondering where I have been and If i'm still alive.
I appreciate very much your emails and your concerns.
This year has been crazy! I feel like I've been on the Amazing Race and Grey's Anatomy at the same time.
I have traveled a ton of places this year and been to the hospital twice.
Once for my amnesia episode and the other, two weeks ago, for emergency Gall Bladder surgery.
Prior to this year, I have never had a surgery before, never really had to stay in a hospital before.
The surgery went well and I feel really good. So here's a few things I learned while in the hospital:
#1- Because of the acoustics in a hospital when you throw up, everybody on the first five floors can here you, even at 3 in the morning. People were coming in to my room, that I never saw on my floor saying, "hey were you the guy throwing up last night?" My wife says I'm a loud thrower-upper.
#2- That when you have to use the bathroom, and no ones around, you have to figure out which things to disconnect and unwind.
I felt like each time it was like playing with a Rubik's cube. "This wire goes here, this wire goes there", and then repeating it when I made it back to my bed.
Then when people are around, pushing the I.V. roller, holding all the wires, lifting the I.V. roller over the wires,which would be okay, if I wasn't trying to keep the back of my gown closed so I wouldn't moon anyone. Look I only have two hands.
You almost need to be an engineer to figure things out.
#4- I'm a hairy guy. When they shave your chest and other area's, that they are in a hurry and don't tend to the details. It looked like someone had hurried, ran a lawnmower over my chest, and forgot to use the weed trimmer.
I think it was a male nurse who did it, because my chest was shaved in the shape of a football field and he left lines of hair as yard markers. Go team!
#5- When they need you to go. You can't. I don't understand this. It's like they say, "okay we need you to go to the restroom to get a sample" ,and you feel the weight of the world on your shoulders. Here's my chance to be a Super Hero It's almost like everyone in the hospital is counting on you.
Then you freeze. It's like someone brought out the Kyrptonite. I can go almost anytime. Never a problem. Then they ask me to and I can't.
I say to them,," I'm not sure I can go."Then there are three nurses standing by like cheerleaders giving you encouraging words and cheers. (They treat it like it's "on demand T.V.)
They teach you all of the tricks- They turn the water on in the background, they tell you to drink some water, they even try having you run your hands under warm water.
Then when you can't "save the world", they make you feel bad by saying, "You shouldn't have any problem going, you've consumed 4 I.V. bags. "
It's like your body is a stubborn little kid saying, "i'm not going and you can't make me."
#6-And last, that Bob Barker is no longer on the "Price is Right", Rachel Ray ( I love Rachel Ray) has some great recipes that I want to try, and that Ellen Degeneres is fun and crazy!
Have a great weekend. Since I'm doing the blog, and since no one's looking, and since it's almost Halloween, and since I'm technically still recovering from surgery, and Eric and Julie will show pity on me, lets have a drawing for 5 Haunted Paper Crafting kits.
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Have a great weekend
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