More Visitors and Hospital Food Rants

watched the rest of the 24s last night. Watched the last nine hours in real time so I was up for hours. But it was great!

Spoke to the doc today when he rebandaged me and he said that once my drainage duct was rendering less fluid from my wound, he would take it out and I could probably go home the next day. He says I would have to come back for regular checks of the wound but that I could go home so I am very much looking forward to that although I think I may need extra time off work. I’m still feeling pretty crappy but I know I’m looking much worse.

Masashi came in the afternoon and we got some drinks and sat downstairs and talked for a change of scenery. He’s a darling little fellow and every time we talk I am struck by how similar our personalities are.

Some of the work crew came today. Adam, Bella and Jennifer came by with flowers towards the end of visiting hours and of course Clare and Julie came too. We all sat around and chatted for a bit (I’m sure we were annoying the fuck out of my fellow hospital guests) until the nursed came and chucked them out. They brought me beautiful flowers which i had Clare take home because the olds in my room like to keep the heat cranked up which turns fresh flowers into dried ones in a matter of hours.

A Sidebar about Hospital Food: I’ve been in the hospital for 6 days now and the nicest thing I can say about the food here is that I was blessed not to be able to eat anything on the day of surgery. It’s fucking horrible. Aside from the fact that my mouth can’t open very much and my jaw hurts like a bitch, a lot of the food is hard, tough to chew and difficult to manage into small enough pieces. It tastes like shit too. It’s like they’ve purposely decided to live up to the clichés by making the food extra bad. Ugh.

The pain medication wears off during the evening so my jaw is killing me in the middle of the night to mid morning. However, the last time they offered me pain medication (this was the day of surgery) they shoved a fucking suppository up my ass so that put an end to my pain medication requests. Joel promised good drugs. I am a bit disappointed.