Welcome to Monday. Pull up a chair and wait with me as we wait for the three o’clock hour to arrive. That when I am scheduled to have my surgery. Things got real interesting around here first thing this morning. I was woken at 0500 with this cheery voice telling me “good morning, and that she had to hook up my bag of anti-biotic infusion. That wasn’t too bad because I had already had several hours of good sleep. So, she hooked it up and I knew it is an hour procedure. I drifted on off back to snooze-land. At 0615 the nurse came back in to unhook the medicine bag. While he was in here I asked him to bring me a pain pill which he did. I had had my last one at 2200 hours before I went to sleep for the night. By now it was starting to throb. I’m taking Percocet which works pretty good for me.

I decided to go through y Facebook Messenger and talk to Jules and Lis who wear of course already up and off to work. They are both on Eastern Time Zone so that are moving around at lest an hour before Mom and me and three hours before Heather. Besides, they are both “non-sleepers”.

At about 0720, my nurse came in and said that my surgery had been rescheduled for 0800 which meant they had a lot of prep stuff to do to get me ready. I was thrilled because it meant I didn’t have to sit around all day, not eating anything or drinking anything. They quickly brought in an IV bag and got me started on fluids, and they ordered up me my set of “wipes” so I could sterilize my body with a quick wash down, and they brought me a gown. Well, 0800 came and went and I was still sitting there. About 0830, Dr Jenkins, who is Dr, Richardson’s “Resident” came in to check on me and mark the leg that they would be working on and I asked him if we ready to go and he said “no, the procedure isn’t until 1500 hours. I told him that they had received message up here that I was on the scheduled for 0800. He checked the computer and sure enough I was scheduled for 1500. So, here I am, —- sitting and waiting with two and a half hours until I have my procedure.  But — it’s all good.

I got up out of bed a few minutes ago and that caused a lot of pain. Of course I’m can’t walk on the leg but the pain come from all of the blood rushing down into my leg. I hope that goes away before too long. Once I got back in my recliner in here and got the leg raised, it eventually settled down. I just hope today is the last of surgery for awhile. Patience —- Thou art a bitch!!!

So, that is my minute by minute update. I will let you know how it goes, maybe tomorrow. Until then, May God fully bless you and I thank you for your warm thoughts and prayers. Peace.