DAY 7: Monday, April 7, 2008
1 full week sitting in Cayuga Medical Center. Since the air leak in my chest cavity has not improved after putting the mega chest tube in 5 days ago, the doctor and surgeons have been talking with my parents about surgery. Turns out tomorrow morning they're gonna do surgery. Should take about an hour, and involves putting 3 holes in me to do 3 different things, including stapling my lung together after finding out the culprit location with a camera.
About halfway through the day, they stuck a roommate in my double-occupancy room, which was all to myself until now. Apparently he's a 64-year-old guy who just had surgery for enlarged prostate. After hanging around the room for the afternoon and watching TV while I was chillin' on the aftereffects of Percocet, they discharged him at dinnertime, so now I have the room to myself again. The nurse took out my IV, which was in my left arm since the day I got here (7 days ago). I started to get worried about that when small red bumps started appearing on my left arm from the tape used to hold the IV in place.
Well, at this point I would like to thank everyone for their care, support, visits, calls, donated food, getting my textbooks from my room (although I couldn't really concentrate on studying with the chest tube), etc. It really means a lot to me, and I appreciate it. You guys are the reason I keep on keepin' on.
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Yo hans. That is some messed up stuff that's been going on. Hey, at the least youll end up with some scars that you can claim are from sharks or snakes or getting in knife fights. Or sharks wielding knives with snakes wrapped around them. As long as it looks badass. Seriously, though, I'm really pullin for you. I'm using whatever cosmic influence I have for your benefit.
On a semi-related note, I'll be in Ithaca on friday night, potentially into saturday, so I'll give you a call and see if i can't track you down and see how youre doing.
-Tim
This is Rooney by the way. Just in case you know 8 billion other tims nowadays.
We miss you!
-Richardson
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