Monday, June 05, 2006
Alive and Healing
I am truly in awe of the wonderful job done by the medical specialists, doctors, nurses and support staff in hospitals.
Eight days ago I was chopped open and parts of my stomach moved out the way so that they could get into other parts for the fairly extensive surgery. That afternoon I woke up in hospital with tubes seemingly sticking into and out of me everywhere. And yet I felt no pain. I was even able to have a brief chat with nurses and with my wife, much to her surprise and mine. And day-by-day with their constant care and attention to detail I progressed and after seven days headed home.
And here I am exactly one week after the operation, sitting in front of a computer screen preparing this information. Not that I'm energetic enough to bang away on the keyboards for long, because I'm using Dragon NaturallySpeaking. But that's something I can tell you about another day.
