Well, I made it through my little surgery. Coming out from under general anesthesia is just a wierd as I remember (I had it several years ago when I had my wisdom teeth out). The surgery was an umbilical (on my stomach) hernia repair; it went a bit longer than expect as the damage was a bit more than expected. It hurt like the devil when I came to, and it took a couple of tries with the feel-good juice before something worked. However, it all went well. The nurses at the surgical center were very nice. I have alot of respect for everyone who chooses healthcare as a career.<\/p>\n
I knew alot about what to expect from what others have told me about surgical experiences, such as being repeatedly quizzed by various staff as to what procedure I’d be having. I consider this a good thing, we’ve all heard the stories of people getting the wrong procedure. I also got a request I hadn’t expected, and a missed opportunity. When I was asked to disrobe and don the paper gown, I was given a skin marker, and asked to ‘circle or put an X on’ the area where I was having my surgery. It was only later, after I had finished marking and changing, that I realized I should have written a note to the surgeon next to my X. <\/span>The message? “I’m Blogging This<\/a>.”<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, I made it through my little surgery. Coming out from under general anesthesia is just a wierd as I remember (I had it several years ago when I had my wisdom teeth out). The surgery was an umbilical (on my stomach) hernia repair; it went a bit longer than expect as the damage was […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}