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Author: aron

  • Voting Day

    I had to go get my molar caps put on this morning at 8am. That took about an hour and then I went out and voted. No line at all, just walked up, got my ballot, voted and left, the whole process was maybe 5 minutes.

    Got home and had to put the new laptop in a place where I could use it and then I got connected and started work. I made it about 30 minutes before I had to take lunch which included a 2 hour nap.

    Got more work done this afternoon and managed to forget my meds at 3pm. I took a Tylenol and Advil and I’ll make it until 9pm and then go to bed.

    I realize that the drugs are good at taking away the pain but they also take away any motivation. But it won’t be too much longer before they’re done and the tube is out and I can work on getting back into shape.

  • Need to Take it Easier

    I took the trash out last night and I hurt because of it. And I found out today that I don’t get the drain taken out until 11/4. Ugh. Well nothing to do but live with it. And I found that the kitchen sink is best for hair and upper body washing while setting up the master bath shower to handle the lower.

    Super excited I should get to start what I know how to do at the contract job. It’s been a bit of a struggle to get where we needed to be to move ahead with development. A fish back into water.

    Also I got a call from the WiPro company again. I interviewed with them about 6 months ago and they had the audacity to say they were ready for the next round of interviews. I said no and hung up. They called back saying the reason I never heard back was because it was an internal hire. I guess that was supposed to make a difference. I told him strait up I would not work for that company and he finally got it. Although I feel maybe I should have looked into it. But life is too short to do something you don’t love.

  • First Monday Without Appendix

    I’ve been home 2 days now and I’m making progress toward healing. I’m a bit worried about my appetite or lack thereof. I’ve had a piece of toast, a piece of bread with peanut butter, a bowl of applesauce, and half a mug of cereal. Not much nutrition for the body to heal. Although I honestly have enough stored in fat that it should be fine.

    Started starting the new project continuing from last week. Another computer, this one is worse off because it’s seriously locked down. So now I have 2 laptops from 2 companies for this contract. How many do I need provided for this project? Zero.

  • Still in a Bit of a Daze

    After the first night back in my own bed I’m feeling a little better. I’m still sore and sick and my digestive system is a mess but everything seems to be going forward and that’s where we need it to be.

    I did run to the store today for some supplies, I probably should have sent Sandy but I was irked probably because of the pain and discomfort.

    Looks like the Cowboys season is tanked. I watched the game in hopes that they would show some spark but they didn’t and they won’t. The football gods won’t forgive Jerry and that’s that. Also I heard that they give tours of the practice facility while they are working out. I don’t know if this is the same across the NFL but I’d be pretty disturbed if there was one way glass in the weight room and it was my job to lift weights. It almost makes it like a zoo. Although no one has offered me millions to life weights, maybe I wouldn’t mind so much.

  • Rewind – Recovery Day

    So this day started off after the night from hell. It’s Friday and I’m hoping that I get to go home today but I’m sure that it’s not to be. Still too new and found out the procedure wasn’t a simple cut and snip as the appendix was perforated. Sandy came by and I have power and computer and Switch so I should be able to pass the time well enough. Also it looks like I’m moving off the second floor to the third floor. That led to the only unfortunate incident. I had what was left with an empty IV bag and line, they told me I was going to move and I needed to pack so I thought that I could take the line out. Turns out I could BUT should is another matter.

    Evidently without a complete circuit the blood back flows from the vein. Mia Culpa.

    The move happened and settle in hoping tomorrow will be the day.

    I don’t like being in the hospital at all, but it’s not a vacation spot, you are there because there’s no other place that you can get fixed.

  • Rewind – Surgery Day

    I spend the morning in my ER room with no sleep at all. Having to get up and take a leak with tubes and wires sticking out of me. And cold, I actually broke a veneer on tooth 7. It fractured and I’m a bit scared a piece may have gotten swallowed. I think it was around 6am they came and took me and the bed I was in upstairs so I could get ready for surgery. I have never put on a surgical gown and it didn’t come with instructions so I had to call for help.

    They took me down about 7:15am, I was scheduled for 7:30am but others went first. I was parked in pre-surgery with nothing to do but listed to the activity around me. I was parked in a cubby with the curtin drawn and lights out. Every occasionally someone would peek in on me to check. Across the way, there was a conversation about a colonoscopy, next cubby to me there was a guy, talking to a doctor. I watched the digital clock on the wall tick off the time, 7:45, 8:00 then 8:06 and they opened the curtain and said it was time.

    The nurse said she had some ‘champaine for the brain’ and injected it into my line… That was it…

    I have a brief recollection of waking up in a warehouse on the bed with a mask on thinking I couldn’t breathe, I faded in and out of consciousness. The next thing I remember I was back in my room and Sandy was there then out again. Woke up and Cortney was there and doctors coming in and talking and me talking but I have no recollection what was said. It was reminicent of a blackout and not fun.

    After finally coming to in the afternoon, I didn’t have any energey and they kept pumping drugs and IV’s and giving me pills and taking blood and vitals. Unfortunately because of the environment and the bed and everything else, there would be no sleep for me this night and I sadly watched as my cell phone dropped into the single digits for charge and then die. I had neglected to bring a charger cable and although Sandy would be bringing me one in the morning. This overnight would be spent with only a TV whose channels I didn’t know and the nurses checking on me and my thoughts. Sigh…

  • Rewind – Pain Day

    So this is a flashback so I remember the next couple of days.

    I woke up this morning after a really bad nights sleep. I could tell that I was running a fever because of the chills and insomnia. I had Sandy get me the thermometer but temperature was normal. My stomach didn’t feel right, I wasn’t hungry or thirsty. I just felt yucky. And the pain was steadily increasing throughout the day localized to the abdomen and there was the pain in the lower right quadrant.

    So after laying around all day, not eating and not drinking, I decided if nothing else I should at least try to hydrate and had Sandy get me a bottle of water from the fridge. I cracked it open and downed half of it (8oz) in fairly short order and then hell came to visit. The pain washed over me like a wave and I was driven to my knees. All of a sudden I started sweating profusely and was extremely hot.

    And that was it, I had pre-investigated where I could go to an emergency room and Medical City Richland Hills it was. So at 10pm on Wednesday we made our way to the emergency room. My first trip to the ER that wasn’t my fault. No accident, no overdose, just a condition.

    Got there and were the first in line and they got me right in. I’m not sure of the timing but it was in short order that they took me for a CT scan and what seemed like just minutes it was read and I was on the schedule for surgery in the AM…

  • Sometimes I’m Just Not That Bright…

    I’ve been complaining about having to do dev work on a MS Surface laptop because I’m used to 6 monitors. I did get a port replicator and I can add up to 3 monitors but it’s not working well. Even went so far as to order HDMI switches. And then it came to me, why am I not RDP’ing into the Surface from my dev box and use all the monitors. And that’s how it got fixed.

    The floor is just about done, the hard cuts are done and it’s just laying the closet floor to finish. We’ve got the paint for the trim so I need to work on that but I’ll knock the floor out tomorrow and then switch to the edging. It’s getting close.

    I went on my usual bike ride this afternoon and stopped in at the rec center to get a soda but it ate my money. I’m having that kind of week. Oh well, if that’s the worst thing that happens I’ll consider myself lucky.

  • First Day Disasters

    So as I was working with the issued hardware, I managed to miss the introductory meeting with one of the other computer geeks at the company. I mean I changed the time zone and Office 365 didn’t update until I shut it down and brought it back up, at which point it said you’re going places, should we update your timezone… Bastard…

    Oh well, they were cooler than I was about it and we’ll meet tomorrow. Just bugs the begeezus about of me that I’d screw something like that up. It’s like when I mis-order online… I personally think it’s a senior moment and don’t think there’s a damn thing that I can do about it. Boy this getting old isn’t fun.

  • Lazy Sunday

    I think every Sunday is a lazy Sunday as I rarely to never get anything done even though there’s stuff to do. I got the kitchen cleaned and I’m about to attack laundry. I need to clean so that I can work on computer geek things during the week. I still need to finish the floor but it may bleed into next weekend.

    I did have some rum last night and it just served to remind me that I’m just not a drinker any more. My body just doesn’t metabolize it the way it used to. It’s for the best of course, it’s just plain unhealthy to drink on the level that I used to. Once every couple of months is enough for me I guess.

    Off to get more done, make it a great one everybody!!!