The Surgery

The next week went by in such a hurry that I literally almost missed it. After 7 1/2 years of working 6 days a week, I wasn't allowed to work. I spent alot of time just literally sitting around wondering what was gonna happen next. Thankfully we had Project Wildfire that we were playing at on Saturday so i spent some time getting ready for that. We played PW on Saturday night and I experienced true loving worship. I don't even remember being on stage hardly it went by so fast. Then Sunday morning service was good and I felt ready to battle. I checked into the hospital on Wednesday for the radical nephrectomy (Kidney Removal) and all went according to plan. The doctors were all pleased with how things went and they put me in a room and told me I could go home in 4 to 5 days. The first night they gave me a pain pump that quickly became my little friend. I loved that little button. I had another gravity pump that put pain med to the inside of the incision. The doctor told me that as soon as I felt like it I could get up and walk around and eat (which I was really looking forward to after 3 days of liquid or no diet) I could start working toward going home. So Thursday morning around 4 o'clock I decided it would be a good time to get started. So in my air-conditioned hospital gown I was strolling the halls. Slowly and short were the first trips but they quickly got longer. The doctor came in Friday morning to check on me and was pleased with my progress. He left it up to me as to how long I needed to stay after that so I decided that Friday evening would be a good time to come home. I came home with an internal pain pump, one kidney, and a 14 inch incision. I was glad to be home but still a little scared about what to expect. So I figures the best way to handle things was to just get going. So Saturday for lunch I got up got dressed and headed out to Wright Way Wings and BBQ for some real food and then, like an idiot, I headed to Walmart. It really did feel good to just get back to some sense of normalcy.