December 17, 2007
Surgery
Surgery took less than 2 hours this afternoon. The staff at Stanford Hospital were very professional. The surgery time was delayed slightly and it took me longer than I had expected to recover enough to leave the hospital. And when I did I was in absolutely no shape to go watch the karate seminar I had organized to take place that evening 30 minutes away. I did call the instructor and the person hosting him to let them know that I was still in the hospital while they were getting ready to begin. They were understanding. I was in quite a bit of pain but, due primarily to all the medication I was on, what bothered me most was the nausea. I threw up. It was probably just the 6th time I had thrown up in the past 25 years. I am going to bed with a special ice-pad wrapped around my hip & leg.