feels like home
» Friday, November 16, 2007
I'm back! Say, have you ever had four nurses jab you seven times with an IV needle? Apparently I have extremely tough skin and extremely mobile veins. Also, my arms have so many shaved patches that they look like giraffe necks. I felt like a junkie offering up his shriveled arms for that last elusive stab.Anyway. I'm a bit groggy right now, but I'm back home. The pain that's dogged me for months has vanished utterly. I've suffered a lot of nerve damage, which has reduced feeling in my feet and legs, such that I need a walker to get around. It feels as if my legs have fallen asleep and they're just about to get pins and needles - but they never quite get there. According to those fancy doctors, though, my nerves should slowly repair themselves over the next few months. Not fun, but I can lay flat on my back and straighten out my body now. I'll take a bit of numbness and a walker over pain any day.
A lot of you sent good thoughts, wishes and prayers my way over the last few days. Did your positive energy help me through my experience? Or was it my indomitable will? Only time will tell.
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21 comments:
Welcome back. Pun intended.
You always seemed like an upstanding citizen. Remember, the good times are not all behind you. Have you ever been so pleased to have someone stab you in the back?
So happy you're home! Don't worry, those nerves won't take too terribly long to get back to business!
Yay for the passing of pain! The loss of sensation might be less than ideal, but you sound like you're happy with the current trade, so that's grand.
I remember waiting for my nerves to sort themselves out, post-surgery. That was some fun shit! ;) Yes, it took time - certainly more than six months, maybe it was closer to a year - but, it did happen. Different part of the body, I know, so take it with a pinch of salt, an overdose of movies, and a handful of snacks.
Home and mostly pain-free: an abundance of good news. Congratulations on coming through all of this with so much fortitude.
I wish I had something pithy and smart to say. I do not. I am happy for the good outcome and I wish you a speedy and complete recovery.
Hey! healing mojo is the bomb!
It helps to have a good patient. Glad you are back home, and pain-free. "utterly gone" is what you want to know about pain.
Did your positive energy help me through my experience? Or was it my indomitable will?
It might have been a crazy, wonderful combination of the two: an indomitable energy consisting of positive will. I wish you well in your recovery, sir.
This is one of those times when the expression "knocked flat on his back" is a positive one.
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