Well, here goes nothin'...

[annathepiper]

Having just gotten back from seeing The Bourne Supremacy (which, surprisingly, was six dollars of fun in a nine dollar jar), I now prepare my overnight bag for going to the Neck Cutting tomorrow.

Wish me luck, folks! I probably won't be posting again or online until Wednesday, which is when I'll be coming home from the hospital. And it'll be anybody's guess how coherent I'll be!

[EDIT 5:59am Tuesday 8/3/04--Typing this in blurry-eyed as I have been instructed not to wear contacts to the hospital. Bleah. But y'all go watch solarbird's journal for the earliest word on how the surgery goes. :) She's going to be at the hospital with me (Swedish Medical Center, for those of y'all who want to know that) until she's sure the surgery went okay, and then she's a-gonna hafta come home and move stuff. I'll ask her to post an update when she does that. See y'all tomorrow!]

Comments

[king-chiron.livejournal.com]

Luck! We'll be thinking good thoughts for you.

[emmacrew.livejournal.com]

Hope everything goes the best it can. And speedy recovery.

[janne.livejournal.com]

Good luck! And bring a book, if hospitals over there are anything like here it will be hurry up and wait...

[apel.livejournal.com]

Good luck! I'll keep you in my thoughts.

[eveshka.livejournal.com]

*snugs tight*

You'll be in my thoughts all day long.

Please get Dara to do a public posting or a comment in here so we know that you're okay?

[starfallz.livejournal.com]

*hugs* Good luck and speedy recovery! I'm hoping for the best for you.

[seimaisin.livejournal.com]

{{{hugs}}} Good luck - will think good thoughts for you!

[agrimony.livejournal.com]

Feel better soon!

[mikekn]

I hope everything goes smoothly and you have a record breaking speedy recovery!

[rmd.livejournal.com]

GOOD LUCK!

[grumpywitch.livejournal.com]

Good luck! Fingers crossed. Heal quickly and may the news be very, very good.

[annathepiper]

I'm bringing three, though if they don't let me put my contacts on, it'll be difficult to actually READ them. ;P

[annathepiper]

Thanks hon!

[annathepiper]

THank you very much!

[drglam]

Have a fabulously dull and uneventful surgery!

[damara.livejournal.com]

Good luck and best wishes.

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

That is an appallingly cute icon.

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

*hugs*! **good thoughts**

[firni.livejournal.com]

Good luck!

[pauldf.livejournal.com]

hope it all goes smoothly!

[solarbird]

Update posted to my journal - check there!

[risu.livejournal.com]

Yay! All is well! :)

Jenna

[flashfire.livejournal.com]

I'd say good luck, but I don't need to at this point. ;-)

[annathepiper]

Thank you--it must have worked, because things went pretty well indeed! :)

[annathepiper]

Thank you very much. :) I'm pretty decent at the moment, only a little bit of soreness, and a wicked cool scar. ;) I totally look like a victim of the French Revolution!

[annathepiper]

Thanks! I must have had some... things went pretty well! :)

[annathepiper]

No, not really... but thank you for calling me last night at the hospital, it was very sweet of you! Even if I wasn't able to do more than croak in reply. :)

[annathepiper]

Thank you very much. :) So far the initial news is that the lump didn't seem cancerous but they're going to test the heck out of it over this next week, and I will get final word when I go back in for my followup appointment, to have my stitches out.

[annathepiper]

Thank you very much. :) It seems to have done, so far... not too terribly much pain, and I have a cool-looking scar and totally look like I had my throat cut!

[annathepiper]

Thank you very much. :)

[annathepiper]

All is, indeed, pretty well. :)

[annathepiper]

Thank you very much, I'm in pretty good shape at the moment! I just am not allowed to lie down. :)

[annathepiper]

Thank you! It seems to have gone quite well. :)

[annathepiper]

Gonna be working on it. :)

[annathepiper]

It was so dull I slept through it! ;)

The last thing I remember was the anesthesiology guys hooking me up with everything, and one of them asking me what I did for a living. I told him I was a software tester, and I remember he called that over to someone doing the check on the surgical instruments being laid out--and then, NOTHING, till I woke up in the recovery room. And it was fairly instantaneous!

[annathepiper]

*hugs a Kit some more* Thanks hon!

Somebody on Gruntland suggested to me that that which does not kill me will make a good novel. I am not quite sure yet how I will work "thyroid operation" into an SF/F novel, but we'll see if any amusing ideas come to me while I'm spaced on the Percocet. ;)

[annathepiper]

Thank you very much, hon--and thank you for calling me in the hospital, I much appreciated it, even if I wasn't too terribly coherent and only able to croak over the phone. :)

[annathepiper]

Yay, kitty icons! Mew!

[annathepiper]

Thank you very much! :) Things do indeed appear to have gone smoothly, though we'll have to see how fast my scar fades. ;)