Breaking the Habit!!!!! Project 365 (11/365)

Well today I have made head way to getting my arm back to normal.  So today's pictures are of the staple being taken out.  These little guys kept the incisions made during surgery closed as they healed, and they did a good job at doing so.  Now, these incisions look like scrapes, perfectly place upon the skin in small straight lines.

The thing that the guy used to pull these bad boys out looked like a pair of nail clippers.  Except for the head piece, that looked like the trash picker upper head that old people use when they can't bend over cause of bad backs, or whatever.  I was surprised that when the guy pulled out (no homo) the staples that it was quite painless.  I was being a

 hypochondriac about the how bad the pain was going to be, but I was presently surprised.

Well now I'm all patched up with a couple of good things.  A month with the sling then it's gone.  I can finally take showers without being worried about getting stupid staples wet.  Bumping into things isn't as big of a problem as before, but it's still pretty damn high up there - this is a very big hint to those that are going to test me.

It's a good thing I got over the every other day posting schedule, maybe I'll be able to post more often now.......most likely not though.

Project 365 (5-6/365)

Though I had the surgery yesterday, I was still in search of pictures for Project 365.

Day 5 (Yesterday's)

On my way to await surgery, driving down to MIA early in the morning, just after 6 A.M.  What's cool is that you can see the reflections of the light poles on the other side of I-95, and the city lig

hts as the sun rises to greet the city.  Just a cool picture from the iPhone.

This is right before going into surgery.  Literally two or thr

ee minutes after I took this picture and gave up the phone I passed out on the to have

 my shoulder fixed.  If you look close you can see where the nurse had a tough time trying to stick the IV in, she finally threaded the IV the second time.  But of course as it was going in and coming out (no pun intended) I could feel the plastic piece in my vein, which didn't help at all since I absolutely hate needles.

Day 6 (Today's)

You can see plainly where the doctor had fun.  These are three of five insicions in my shoulder - delectable aren't they?  Closed up by staples, I forsee them being an uuber amount of fun to be taken out.  At least the scaring won't be bad, only sets of dots around five lines on my arm.

These have truly become my best friends.  They all help to the end objective for the moment: ease the pain of my shoulder.  The couch helps alliviate some of the pressure from my hanging arm - the sling really isn't all that helpful.  The peas are my ice bag that conforms and doesn't melt, altogether I have four of them to switch between, and they have helped with the swelling.  Lastly, the pills.  My biggest complaint today was not being able to take the full dosage, I'm fine with the recommended dose, it's when my mother goes estrange and only lets me get one!  The pain is really that serious, bad thing is these bad boys make me loopy.  Good thing it's Spring Break.

Well the last two days have been about this awful shoulder of mine, hoping it gets better soon.  Gotta find something for tomorrow........

Posting With One Hand

Yesterday I went in for surgery on my shoulder - pictures still to come - and now I must type with a single hand.  This makes everything slower.  So the overall effect of this is excruciating pain in my shoulder without any of the pain killers, then the pain killers make me loopy, so at the moment I'm typing with many errors and I am backspacing quite a bit.  Hopfully most of the pain will subside before Monday or I'll be a pretty pissed off one-handed driver, that'll be going at the speed of the turtles and old folks.  There are a couple of other issues with this, but I don't care to mention.  But I will show off the staples in my shoulder........sooner or later.