Thank you so much, everyone, for all your love and ~ma. I felt it yesterday, for sure, while I was getting ready for, undergoing, and recovering from surgery. It felt very much like the quilt that Amy talked about, sheltering me with warmth. Even though I was separated from my electronics for the better part of the day (WORST) you all never felt far away.
I feel so much better now that the nausea has passed! They gave me four IV pushes of anti-nausea meds in the recovery area, and then finally a transdermal patch, which finally did the trick. That patch and I are besties. I am stiff and sore, but pretty much elated to have the gallbladder out and not be retching.
Yup. Postpartum, as the C-section anesthesia was working its way out of my system, it was only a nurse with a bedpan in hand and lightning reflexes who saved me from barfing all over Matilda's head.
Good Lord, JZ! That must have been horrid! The pain from vomiting from my relatively routine laparoscopic procedure was pretty intense. I can't even imagine having to deal with that after a C-section.
I have been drinking ginger ale nonstop since I got to my friend's house, and she even boiled some ginger root in water for me last night for me to take with my first dose of Percocet. I like to think that Ginger was with me, just a little, even though I couldn't be here yesterday.
Calli is the greatest catsitter, btw. Javier is going to be terribly sad that she's not going to be coming by every day to lavish him with attention when I come home.
Plei, I'm so sorry.
Dana, I'll be laid up more or less for the next 10-14 days, so if you want a personal shopper for your Amazon wishlist, I'd be happy to do it. That offer extends to everyone.
Zen, lots of no breakdown ~ma for you.
Sparky, so sorry about all of the stress. We just had a (false alarm) armed shooter shutdown at UNC last week. I hate feeling like these incidents (real and false) are becoming the new norm.
TURNIP 4 PREZ. Much more palatable.
Meara, I too have a brother who is a jerk, and doesn't even bother with gifts, so I say go gift card, choose gift card.
Congratulations, Nanita!! So well-deserved! Also, it sounds like you have some very promising leads on a forever home for Mr. Peabody, but if they don't pan out for whatever reason, the friend who stayed with me at the hospital yesterday grew up with fox terriers and Jack Russels his whole life, and is currently dog free, and was very moved by his and Ginger's story, and said he would take him. But it would be preferable for him to go to someone familiar, for sure.