Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Speaking of people being moved out of the hospital quickly, my brother-in-law went for an angiogram last Friday. That led to double-bypass surgery Saturday morning. They sent him home Tuesday. He is doing fairly well for a guy who had his chest cracked open less than a week ago.

 

My biggest surgery concern these days would be taking the post-op painkillers. Those things are a bitch to kick. They sent me home with a giant bottle of quick release Roethlisberger pills. Withdrawal fucking hurts. Then again, that was several years back. I’m guessing they’re more hesitant to prescribe those these days.

 

I’ve had several surgeries in the past few years, and all they ever give me is the baby aspirin Vicodin that does nothing. Doesn’t even get me high. So I generally don’t take anything post-op.

 

All they give you now is hydrocodone, which is not an opiate. It's basically just hopped up Tylenol.

 

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Damn, this is familiar. Angiogram will pinpoint the location to install the stents. Uh, bad news, the blockages are not in places where stents work. Triple bypass a few days later. I don't remember how long I was in the hospital, 4-5 days. That was nearly 18 years ago.

For my hip replacement earlier this year, I was in pre-op for about 90 minutes. Finally, the anesthesiologist came in, did her thing. A couple of minutes later, I was wheeled through the curtain heading for the elevator. Next thing I remember is waking up in a room. The nurse made sure I was OK and said the physical therapist will be here shortly for the first session (not much, just a 20-yard stroll down the hall with the walker). Total hospital time was less than a day and a half.

 

When I had my ACL replacement surgery at USC hospital, I went under at 7 a.m....and I woke up at 7 p.m. in a huge recovery room, full of two dozen empty beds, very few lights on, and my wife just patiently waiting in the chair next to my bed. "Hi! You took so long coming around everyone went home!"

It was really surreal.

 

Happy to hear your brother-in-law is doing well. Speaking of heart surgery, Robin Williams' heart surgery bits crack me up.

 

Is the goal to kill people?

 

Hey, whatever works. Go home and suck down a tallboy of Clorox if it will open hospital beds for legitimate patients.

 

Thank you for the sentiment and the clip. I'm not sure if I had ever seen that bit before.

 

Favre pills.

Ben was booze and rape.