Thursday, November 30, 1:21 PM
thanks eric.
I am back, my lucidity is not so this may be blurry. I am slow mo now. typing slow.
got dced from hospital this morning. shahinian came in at about 7am, did some eye tracking excersises. sore eyes. I cant tear up on my left eye nor saliva left side.
he said it was a success, with traditional aproach-facial paralysis left side. so im happy. my grin and eyebrow lift is weaker on left…
so….heres what i remember as i try not to pass out.
the darn forum I belong to got me psyched up for this like i was going to a football game all happy n shit, yeahehae im getting a drill in my head bring it on yahoo.me and my wife were escorted into “the basement” and we were in a surgery prep room with sheets dividing, one other black guy was in their with me, some slavic lady boot on a goofy blue hat on me and bootie slippers, as the gregorian chant music was going ovre the speakers, welcoming us or preparing us to go to heaven or something.
nurse came to me introduced himself. looked chinese later found out was salvadoran, met a big white guy that was my facial nerve monitor, then a young ass anestesiologist, that looked 25 yo. asked questions-allergies etc.
they then wheeled me into a green tile walled old school OR that looked like something in guatemala.the anest put 02 on my face and I was joking in salvadoran slang with 2 salvy OR nurses, and told them “no me mandas la ciguanaba“-they laughed hard. Salvadoran legend joke.
Then BOOM I woke up at 6pm wigging out in a bed at 45degrees filipina nurse attending me couldnt sleep all night long, my arterial IV in my had came out wo me knoeing squirting all over, she had to wipe the blood off the bed.
I had artery lead in my left foot with vein, and artery lead in left hand, maybe other area. to monitor BP during operation.
vertigo was worst, eye tracking in peripheral vision of following my finger up to scratch my face put me into hurlandia. and threw up not much nothing, I mightve left the sunday night lasagna that had at daves on the floor of the or or crapped my diapers wo knowing. its a mystery where that bowel movement ran off too.
at2 i called the nurse accidently turning on the TV withjerrry springer crowd yyellins woowooowoohwoowhowwyoow, spun me into vertigo then auto bp cuff pressure started pumpin up, was vertigo land, was really bad.
shahinian stopped by at 4am, said hi, did facial motor verification, mouth eyelift weaker on left side, no tearing or saliva yet tumor was 5cm from internal ear canal pressing on brain stem cerebellum. and since its not there my stem is swinging back to vacant space, and that probably blended with vestibular nerve being gone(balance and hearing, my whole tracking is off eye-gait walking and will take time to line up.
first night our of or i slept maybe every 10 minutes, long ass night. w2nd night was about 30 minutes. then they decided to extend stay at hosp for vertigo probs.
Got a great laugh at the irony of turning on the TV again and it was a soap opera hospital scene unconscious with a creep staring in the windo, watched the nurse leave, snuck in, grabbed a pillow-yeah u know the scene. I laughed hard. The Simpsons helped too, and the Spanish version TV show of REPO man, pretty good and funny. then a weird ton of documentaries about traumatic brain injuries from iraq, from IEDs, memory loss, should’ve died stuff, young like 18-20 yolds. show called californiaconnection.com good journalism. then it was law and order special victims unit, some kid in a fantasy video game world, helping an abused black foster sister that was murdered by an evil caregiver for “peeing her pants” that got me prepped for some good ol HBO Scarface! just watched the scene where the guy gets thrown dangling from the helicopter, and last half of the chainsaw scene where he already starts to escape and shoots the Colombian in the street-then me and my parents watched the end firefight scene, my mom was disturbed but my dad and I watched it through. empowered me a bit watching how many bullets he took at the end and was still kicking.
so ya yesterday was wed. I think i watched tv till am channel surfing through another repeat of scarface and dozed, felt a lil queezy at 3am , and they dced me today at about 10 after qwik wipedown. i need to go now, follow up mri at 230
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