Surgery Day
Posted by Fishdeck in Adult Recovery from Tonsillectomy, Tonsillectomy on August 11, 2009
Had to mention quickly that I do not have a lot to say about the day of surgery. I was extremely anxious, had suffered from anxiety attacks for more that a month, and thought the absolute worst would happen based on all of the things I had read online. Truth be told however, it was only through the support of my family and the strength of Christ that I was even able to walk into the hospital on my own power. Really, I was pretty much running on prayer alone at that point and boy am I grateful that He is loving, listens, and comforts! I would encourage anyone that is nervous or anxious to just turn over your fears to Christ. Seek Him first in prayer and stay focused on Him; everything else will fall in place.
As for the actual surgery, here is what I remember from my experience:
- The entire process should have you checked in to checked out within 3 hours tops.
- When you wake up in recovery, you are going to feel pretty decent. Make sure to start sucking down fluids right then and there.
- Talk! Just do it. Don’t yell, don’t lecture, but talk in a soft voice as often as is comfortable. One of the nurses told me to speak up for myself as I was trying to signal messages for my wife to relay. The nurse explained that the more we use our throat, the less likely the muscles will become stiff and swollen. This greatly helps during recovery and makes it a little easier.
- Trust your doctor! This is my second surgery with my ENT doctor and he is absolutely great. Do not go into a surgery with a doctor that does not instill 100% confidence in you before hand.
- Once home, make sure to start hitting the liquids hard! Even if it hurts a bit, start drinking as much as you can until your eyeballs float. Best advice I received before my surgery and the best that I can pass on as well.
Okay, enough rambling here. The day of surgery was sort of a blur minus the constant praying before hand. By far, the surgery process is probably the scariest part going in to this process but in hindsight is by far the easiest phase. Just put your fears in the Lord’s hands and say a little prayer; you will get through this.
Post op, recovering from a tonsillectomy
Posted by Fishdeck in Adult Recovery from Tonsillectomy, Tonsillectomy on August 11, 2009
As I stated in a previous post, my tonsils were yanked from my body a week ago this Thursday. I have been posting at another site that has a support group for people going through this but I soon realized that the site stinks and the administrator “archives” things way too frequently. So I decided to start posting here on my own blog the experience’s that I am having on the road to recovery. Who knows, just maybe someone will stumble across this site and find encouragement as opposed to the doom and gloom read elsewhere on the intranet. In the following posts, I will try to break things down by day or group days together if nothing significant happened during this time. Off to day 1….
It’s surgery time!!
Posted by Fishdeck in Adult Recovery from Tonsillectomy, Tonsillectomy on August 8, 2009
So how much fun does a tonsillectomy sound like? The first thing I usually think of is ice cream, mounds and mounds of glorious ice cream. Really, that is all there is to it. Make an appointment with your ENT, pony up a thousand dollars or so, and then stand in line at local creamery to start indulging. Easy as 1-2-3!
Frustrated
Received a CNN breaking news alert text earlier today on my cell phone letting me know that Michael Jackson’s gold casket was on stage at the Staples Center. Wow, thanks CNN! Thank goodness I was aware of that breaking news. Not to be outdone by themselves, CNN followed that up with a news alert text letting me know that Jackson’s daughter said he was like the best father ever. Boy, I feel so much better knowing these tidbits of information. When did journalism in this country die? Between this sick obsession with the accused child molesting freak show and the undying devotion to the “One”, journalism is long dead here in the States.
Where is the questioning of all the spending being done by Washington? The hard hitting stories on what Cap and Trade really means to the average American family and the future generations that this country is screwing for their personal gain today? We have officially lost our independent journalists and I fear because of it that we have also failed at the experiment our founding fathers started all those years ago. The founding fathers seemed concerned enough back in the day to make sure they include a freedom for the press; it was key to ensuring fair, democratic information was distributed to the masses. I propose today that we call our representatives and demand that they put forth an amendment giving us the people freedom from the press. I suggest we call that the Fishdeck Act of 2009. Now go make that phone call.
Discrimination, Government Style
Posted by Fishdeck in America, Discrimination on May 28, 2009
So, the other day I applied for a position with a county agency, specifically a county community college district. To be completely forth coming I applied for two positions, one that matched my experience although I was short the college degree that I will have in a few months, and the other was a much lesser job for which I was very overqualified. Anyway, I get called in for an interview for the lesser of the two positions. Oh wait, first I had to go take a test for the position that involved looking at a picture of Microsoft Office (2003 edition) toolbars and identifying the icons. That was the qualification for this position apparently, being able to identify an icon in a blurry photo. Ten years in the IT field, mostly as an administrator, and that was the first time I ever had to pick an icon out of a lineup.
Are we ready for this?
Posted by Fishdeck in Uncategorized on April 29, 2009
Just a quick note to kick things off. Again. Are the American people really ok with a foreign court pursing prosecution of Executive Branch officials? Isn’t that our job as Americans to either remove the President, and thus his advisers, via national elections or through impeachment by our representatives? Allowing this farce to continue will only ensure that every time America steps out of line in the eyes of the International Community some retard of a judge somewhere will claim jurisdiction. Our way of life, our freedom, cannot survive the meddling of foreign powers that have their, not our, best interest in mind.
The Struggling Economy and Why I Really Care
With more and more Americans feeling the effects, either directly or indirectly, of the economic slowdown, there are a few things to keep in mind. The first is that God is in control. I really could stop there because that sums up where our focus should be, on God. Since as a nation we have turned our back on God, believing that we are somehow bigger than He, there are a few other things we should keep in mind.
Back Again
Posted by Fishdeck in Uncategorized on March 11, 2009
Yeah I just couldn’t stay away from this dumb blog. Actually I could but since this is one of the few things I can do for free I am back to writing. The only difference going forward will be less emphasis on politics. These days there seems to be enough outrage at politicians on both sides of the aisle, no need for me to add my voice consistently to the growing noise on the interwebs. Although I will probably scream anyway in future posts because the state of this nation is bugging me daily. What other topics will be covered going forward? (It is weird asking questions of yourself that no one will actually ask isn’t it? Oops, just did it again!) The quick answer is whatever is bugging me that day, which today is my lousy employment situation (back to that later today). Anyway, welcome back self, it is good to have you here again….
Time Warner testing bandwidth cap
This is just plain crazy and quite frankly anti-American. Time Warner Links Web Prices With Usage:
NEW YORK (AP) — Time Warner Cable will experiment with a new pricing structure for high-speed Internet access later this year, charging customers based on how much data they download, a company spokesman said Wednesday.
The company, the second-largest cable provider in the United States, will start a trial in Beaumont, Texas, in which it will sell new Internet customers tiered levels of service based on how much data they download per month, rather than the usual fixed-price packages with unlimited downloads.
It is always surprising when a company takes a page from the government playbook of waiting until someone is dependent on a service and then tax the crap out of it. Oh wait, this isn’t a tax, it is consumer choice! What a sack of crap!! Hey Time Warner here’s an idea for you, why don’t you try innovating your product first and then charge appropriately for the service. Crazy? I know. Really though, shouldn’t this have been the first step followed by the current unlimited bandwidth we now currently enjoy? I thankfully don’t live in an area serviced by Time Warner but I fear that if this plan succeeds all providers will adopt the same model, so if you do currently have TW, please call and air your frustration.
What have we become?
What kind of sick world do we live in these days? Now we are arresting 13 year old girls for “inappropriately” touching boys of the same age? 13-year-old girl arrested for alleged school bus assaults:
PALMER –—A 13-year-old Sutton girl is being held in the Mat-Su Youth Facility after two boys said she sexually assaulted them on a school bus.
The boys, also 13, of Sutton, said the girl touched them over their clothing, Palmer Police Det. Kelly Turney said. Police went to Palmer Junior Middle School Jan. 9 to investigate and ended up arresting the girl.
Wrong? Yes. But unless the girl was trying to do a little late term circumcision, where’s the foul here? Don’t want to speak for all men out there but I think most men would have killed for this kind of attention at 13.