What a great Saturday. Did anyone else get breakfast served to them in bed? No? No cheese and sausage omlet? Ooh. Too bad. You'll just have to take my word for it that it was wonderful.
I'm getting a little spoiled today because I was at the hospital yesterday. I had a bit of outpatient surgery done. I'd go into detail, but it relates to female problems, and my brother-in-law would have an aneurysm. If I posted the color picture the doctor gave me of the inside of my uterus, I'm sure the b-i-l would get gray matter on his monitor.
The procedure went well, but by the time I got home, the pain had surpassed the Advil threshhold. I wasn't about to go back to the hospital, and having the doctor call in a prescription was wasting valuable time. I rummaged through the medicine cabinet. Hey! What's this? Vicodin from last year when I broke my wrist. I felt better already. I did call the doctor to see if it was okay to add this to my recovery plan. I had swallowed two pills before I hung up the phone. I've been feeling great ever since.
Note to Mom: I don't need an intervetion yet. This morning I'm back to a regular dose of Advil, and I feel fine. (My family is big on the "tough-it-out" theory of medicine. You weren't going to the doctor unless it was a compound fracture or lung tissue came out on the Kleenex.)
(Mmmm...another aside: The VP just handed me a piece of beef jerky that we got back from the butchers yesterday. Wow is that good. Beef jerky from our own cow. The VP himself is pretty happy. "30 freakin' pounds of it, Cathy!")
The rest of this wonderful day will consist of putting up and decorating the Christmas tree while we watch the snow falling outside. If I can tear the men in the family away from The Cartoon Network, that is.
I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving Day and none of you had to subject yourself to the shopping malls yesterday. Except for those of you, like my sister-in-law's family who willfully go in for that sort of masochistic sport. I would rather gone all day without my Vicodin.
Have a great weekend.
Posted by Cathy at November 27, 2004 11:56 AMSeneca on health care: "Scorn pain. Either it will go away or you will."
Posted by: aelfheld at November 27, 2004 03:47 PMSo that's where my mom picked up her philosophy on medical care...
Posted by: Cathy at November 27, 2004 04:40 PMDo you seriously have a picture?? Can I see it?
Posted by: Sis at November 28, 2004 09:52 AMI do. You can. In fact, I might just turn it into the family Christmas card this year.
Posted by: Cathy at November 28, 2004 02:46 PMI hope you feel better soon.
I have no medical background but I did work for about 7 years counseling heroin addicts. From my experience I’d say that short term use of Vicodin or other opiate based pain killers used as prescribed have a very slim chance of doing you or most people any harm. There is no reason to suffer in pain. Constipation is the most likely side effect.
After the cows and deer I was expecting a turkey picturial for Thanksgiving.
I went to just one store the day after Thanksgiving. That was enough.
Posted by: yayaempress at November 29, 2004 03:29 PM