The LFB Patient Guides: Help! I’m Having Sinus Surgery and I’m Scared!
Today I’m starting a new series for the site called the Lets Feel Better Patient Guides. These guides will provide everything you need to know about a variety of topics like different kinds of...
View ArticleThe Low Point: A Beautiful Hospital and a Horrible Reason to Be In It
This was, without a doubt, one of the worst weeks of my life. I can really only think of one other occasion that really tested the limits of my sanity. And that was the two weeks I spent in Texas at...
View ArticleI Can’t Do This, But I’m Doing It Anyway
Today, on the way home from a surgery consult my mom asked me, “So are you okay with all of this? With getting the port?” And I was like, “Well, it’s happening. It’s got to happen. So I don’t think I...
View ArticleA Conversation with God on Dealing with Surgery Stress
Have another brownie, God. Jesus. During moments of great upheaval, I turn to god. “God,” I say, while hyperventilating in my bed at two in the morning, “I’m having surgery tomorrow. It’s not a big...
View ArticleRisk.
For days I’ve been trying to wrap my brain around what happened. How did I go from having a functional flare to immobile in my hospital bed after weeks and weeks of barely seeing my own bedroom? How...
View ArticleI Had Surgery and It Actually Helped
Ha ha— Remember that time where I couldn’t eat ANYTHING unless it was blended to mush and then eventually even that was insanely painful? Well that’s because I had an adhesion wrapped around my...
View ArticleThat One Time I Had Surgery Without Anesthesia
Now this is a story all about how my life got flip-turned upside down. I’d like to take a moment to just sit right here and tell you all about my fucked up hospital care In my local hospital, which...
View ArticleBotched Surgery Without Anesthesia, Part 2: The Corrective Surgery
Mom pretty much never leaves my side in the hospital, so you can bet being kicked out by a hurricane didn’t sit well with her. [Not sure what the hell I’m talking about in this post? Catch up on my...
View ArticleBotched Surgery Without Anesthesia, Part 3: The Showdown
I could not wait to get out of the hospital. I hadn’t showered in a week. I hadn’t seen my dog. My chest was constantly dripping with blood. This was such a lame surgery. It wasn’t useful like when I...
View ArticlePost Op Port Surgery: She Lives
So I’ve had the port surgery. It’s in correctly and works. The first day was rough, but the next two days were better. Now I think the port is “settling in.” The port was inserted through an incision...
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