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Condition, pt. 2
Home! So glad to get here, after a week of spending about 23.5 hours per day flat on my back in a very small bed, unable even to roll over due to tubes coming in or going out from belly, arms, etc..
Realized I hadn't mentioned what the condition was. Bladder cancer. High-grade tumors, so the bladder had to come out, then the prostate, then a chunk of small intestine is cut out, split, and reformed into a replacement bladder and that sewn in. Along the way the pelvic lymph nodes are cut out for testing, and then everything is sewn shut. And I acquired some corneal abrasions along the way, hence the eye patch. Entire procedure took 7 hours on the table, and 4 + units of blood. (They transfused four total, and I was still a little low). A week in the hospital, which is about as short a recovery time as could be hoped for.
I discovered many things, including the fact that morphine sulfate is grossly overrated as a pain killer.
Comments
I am VERY glad you're home and doing well. I hope your recovery continues apace.
Posted by: Flight-ER-Doc at June 3, 2009 05:47 PM
You sure were on the "rocket docket" for getting back home fast! So glad that your recovery is coming along well! Now, get a good night's sleep.
Posted by: periwinkle at June 3, 2009 05:54 PM
Damn! Sounds alot like a car engine overhaul.
I'm at a university library doing extensive research for my lawsuit. The federal courts say the Second Amendment is NOT an absolute right. Well, I beg to differ. Here's an FYI from Blackstone's Commentary that I will toss into the air to see if it flies:
William Blackstone, Esq., COMMENTARIES ON THE LAWS OF ENGLAND, BOOK THE FIRST. OF THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS. Oxford, Clarendon Press, (1765). CHAPTER THE FIRST. OF THE ABSOLUTE RIGHTS OF INDIVIDUALS. Chapter 1. pp. 117-141.
THREE CATEGORIS OF ABSOLUTE RIGHTS
1. Absolute right to personal security of life, limbs, body, health, reputation and good name [Adapted from Blackstone, p. 125-130]
2. Absolute right to personal liberty of individuals, right to travel, right to change one's situation without imprisonment or restraint unless by due course of law. [Adapted from Blackstone, p. 130-134]
3. Absolute right to property [i.e. firearms!] [Adapted from Blackstone, p. 134-136]
PROTECTION OF ABSOLUTE RIGHTS
1. Equal rights under the law. [Adapted from Blackstone, p. 136]
2. Constitutional constraints on the Government [Adapted from Blackstone, p. 137]
3. The Federal Courts to petition for redress for violations of rights. (It is ordained by [Adapted from Blackstone, p. 137-138] magna carta , that no freeman shall be outlawed, that is, put out of the protection and benefit of the laws, but according to the law of the land.)
4. Petition for Private Bill through Congress when Federal Courts fail to protect rights. [Adapted from Blackstone, p. 138-139 ]
5. The ultimate remedy is the Second Amendment protecting "the natural right of resistance and self-preservation, when the sanctions of society and laws are found insufficient to restrain the violence of oppression." [Adapted from Blackstone, p. 139]
FIND A WAY TO WORK THE FOLLOWING QUOTE INTO MY LAWSUIT FOR NATIONAL OPEN CARRY HANDGUN.
"liberties more generally talked of, than thoroughly understood; and yet highly highly necessary to be perfectly known and considered by every man of rank or property, lest his ignorance of the points whereon it is founded should hurry him into faction and licentiousness on the one hand, or a pusillanimous [lacking courage and resolution : marked by contemptible timidity, cowardly] indifference and criminal submission on the other." [p. 140 Blackstone]
Posted by: Anonymous at June 3, 2009 05:59 PM
Oops! Not "highly highly necessary" just "highly necessary." and will have to move the bracketed text in 3.
Posted by: Don Hamrick at June 3, 2009 06:04 PM
Glad to hear you are home, counselor. Definitely a better place to be for recovery.
Best wishes.
Posted by: CDR D at June 3, 2009 06:19 PM
Welcome home. Hope the healing comes quickly.
Posted by: Zack at June 3, 2009 06:38 PM
Gives new meaning to NIP/TUCK. God's Speed for your full recovery.
Posted by: Chuck at June 3, 2009 07:18 PM
You'll beat it. Never think otherwise. God bless you.
Posted by: Major Mike at June 3, 2009 07:21 PM
Glad you are home with the recovery going smoothly.
Posted by: Virginian at June 3, 2009 07:30 PM
Best of luck with your recovery, Dave. I hope it's very quick and complete.
Posted by: Mike Gray at June 3, 2009 07:38 PM
Good to hear you are back at home, and best of luck with a hopefully short and simple recovery.
Posted by: Linoge at June 3, 2009 07:42 PM
Glad you are home, praying for a speedy recovery.
Posted by: bill-tb at June 3, 2009 07:54 PM
Wow! Sounds like you hired a plumber. Am very glad you are home and wish you the best for a speedy recovery.
TC
Posted by: TC at June 3, 2009 08:29 PM
A BIG welcome back! Heal up. That's an order.
Posted by: USCitizen at June 3, 2009 10:08 PM
They were working donw below and they abraded your cornea?? Interesting. Fentanyl has always worked better for me then morphine.
Posted by: ParatrooperJJ at June 4, 2009 05:47 AM
Glad to hear your home. here's hoping for a speedy recovery, prayers on the way.
Posted by: Dave at June 4, 2009 07:39 AM
I'm glad you're back at home. I hope your recovery is fast and cancer free!
Posted by: Cory Brickner at June 4, 2009 09:28 AM
My career usually does not call for wishing lawyers well (though I once was one myself); but I pray for a genuinely speedy and complete recovery so you can get on with your valuable Second Amendment work.
Posted by: The Little Coach at June 4, 2009 11:36 AM
Morphine can only do so much when you've been gutted like a trout.
Posted by: Kristopher at June 4, 2009 11:56 AM
Get well soon! (Being at home is always better.)
Posted by: htom at June 4, 2009 02:00 PM
Glad you made it home still breathing. Good for you. And yes, morphine is highly overrated, I know.
Get well soon.
Posted by: straightarrow at June 4, 2009 09:34 PM
Delighted to hear you're out of the hoosegow and on the mend. Don't overdo, though. No target practice for the first few days... okay?
Posted by: Instapunk at June 5, 2009 08:49 AM
I don't think you know me, but I read your blog pretty often. I wish you all the very best for a full and speedy recovery. That's an incredible short hospital stay for what you had. Good luck.
Posted by: mikeb302000 at June 5, 2009 09:05 AM
Good to see you are weathering this with a bit of humor there David. That should help you with your recovery as its said to by many doctors.
The good news is in our world today we have doctors and the ability to do what you had done. This should get you more time to be a pain in the butt to freedom stealers.
Posted by: AvgJoe at June 6, 2009 11:56 AM
I'm a long-time lurker. Welcome back. You're cancer surgery was far more drastic than my unpleasant but timely semi-colonoscopy. I wish you a quick, full recovery!
Posted by: Marco at June 6, 2009 06:39 PM
Glad to hear that you are home! You are in my thoughts.
Posted by: John Lott at June 7, 2009 03:16 PM