by rickg | Sep 7, 2012 | Uncategorized
The surgery was three weeks ago today and the question that keeps running through my mind is this: why aren’t I all better yet? I mean, I understand that it was a huge surgery with complications that could’ve killed me and that I spent 6 days in the Intensive Care...
by rickg | Sep 3, 2012 | Uncategorized
Except for some flashes here and there, pretty much everything during my six day stay in the ICU is lost to the haze of pain and self-administered morphine in which I was enveloped. Apparently people came to visit me and brought me presents but I remember mostly...
by rickg | Aug 31, 2012 | Uncategorized
Presently I am in my second day home and things are going better than they did yesterday. I will spare you the gory details but let’s just say there was stuff coming out of places it shouldn’t have been coming out of and it caused more than a bit of concern. I was...
by rickg | Aug 29, 2012 | Uncategorized
It’s possible that I’m going home today, finally, after 13 very long days in the hospital. If not today, then tomorrow for sure. I’m a lot more mentally with it than I have been, even when I wrote the post on the 26th; that three-paragraph epic took me nearly an hour...
by rickg | Aug 26, 2012 | Uncategorized
Hey gang. Yes, it is me, actually updating on my own. I only have the stamina to do a brief update, partly because I’m exhausted and in a not inconsiderable amount of pain, but also because apparently in addition to the chunks of my body they have removed my typing...
by rickg | Aug 23, 2012 | Uncategorized
Various tubes removed (intentionally this time). Out of ICU and in a regular room. The not-so-spacious and very anti-Vegas Room 1715 to be precise. Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank. They’re even making him get up and walk around. Steps on that...
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