David finally feeling like himself again
Hello world. I have been out of circulation for a while with good reason. David had 2 major hernia surgeries in two weeks. We are spending “quality time” at Hermann hospital in the med center. After the first surgery Tuesday the 15th of July, David went home in 3 days. It turned out to be a tad too early. He ended up back in the hospital on Sunday after puking, ripping the mesh designed to hold in his intestines, making a new hernia and inducing a small bowel obstruction. David doesn’t do anything half-a$$. He had another surgery the 21st of July to remedy the new issues. He has been recovering incredibly slowly. They are afraid to push him since the earlier disaster. Hospital food sucks. He is losing about a pound a day. I brought him soup from Ruggles yesterday, but all they had that he would eat was black bean soup. He ate 3 ounces and said it was awesome! He looked so happy. 3 hours later he got nauseas and had to take some anti nausea medicine. I guess it was too early for black bean soup.
I asked the doctor if we could medicate him for sleep at night (pretty much so I could get some sleep) and David had some interesting dreams. He thought it was the 70’s and he was a wizard, trying to control his goblin armies. He had superpowers 1) peeing 2) changing color and 3) something to do with the tubes coming out of him (Borg like). I told him to lie back down and go to sleep. He did.
We have had some interesting conversations. David doesn’t like being helpless and I don’t particularly like it either. We are both ready to go home. Sam and Chelsea are holding down the fort (scary). Chelsea is making regular trips up here to bring us clothes. Our good friends Nancy and Charles took Sam under their wing last week and saved us a lot of worry. Stuart and David’s uncle have visited. Family and friends have called or emailed to lend their support. We appreciate all of the well wishes. David should be back in action in a couple of weeks (if we can ever get the hell out of here).
