I can remember Wednesday morning getting ready for my operation and wondering whether I would be alive for my wife and children and friends in the afternoon or not. However, I had had many many signs from Angels and people that I would be just fine doing this even at age 77 and they were all right.
However, I really don't like to Hallucinate at all. It's just too out of control and unpredictable for me and might lead to a person's death quite easily given just one slight mistake while you are hallucinating.
It's one of the reasons why I was so grateful to not have to take Furosemide anymore after finding out I was allergic to gluten. When I had to stop eating gluten for awhile after almost dying from something similar to diverticulitis from a Naval hernia that needed an operation my edema completely went away.
And the problem of course with Furosemide is that if you are taking it twice a day it can make you hallucinate sometimes at night which isn't fun (at least for me).
So, not having to take furosemide also could prevent senile dementia a friend of mine thinks whose girlfriend he says got Senile Dementia from taking Furosemide. I can say for sure but this is what he thinks and he's a college professor so he knows a lot of things most people don't.
So, Wednesday the thing I was the most afraid of was the Anesthesia because in order to do this type of robotic hernia surgery you really have to be out cold like almost comatose out.
So, I'm also a little claustrophobic from whooping cough at age 2 where you almost cough to death and often turn blue from this but the Archangels came for me and I survived this by 1950.
So, when the anesthesiologist a very nice lady named Karen I think put this oxygen mask over my face I wasn't ready for this (claustrophobic wise). It smelled really funny like metal or something and I didn't want it on my face but she said this was necessary so I put up with this even though I didn't want to really.
So, soon I was completely unconscious. I woke up an hour or two later hallucinating like crazy from the anesthesia. So, what it was like was to be awake and dreaming while you are asleep at the same time.
I have never had this really weird experience before of not being fully awake and being asleep dreaming at the same time. Very strange. However, I knew likely this was normal? for an operation like this where I had to be basically comatose to do this operation?
When I "woke up" I wasn't really awake and couldn't really have many rational conversations beyond a male nurse saying to me: "Wow! You have amazing hair for someone 77 years old."
And I said, "Yes. I've got the whole Viking thing going on!" which meant that I'm 6 foot 5 inches tall withVIKING incredibly warm hair that used to give me heat prostration when I was young.
Then I said, "Yes. I even have hair growing out my ears too which is another Viking thing for really Cold Weather too." Which is true.
But, being awake and asleep at the same time made me want to barf some but I had been allowed no food of any kind just all sorts of medicines since about 9pm the night before. So, the medicines of all kinds with no food really was messing me up.
I decided to drive to Mt. Shasta because I couldn't imagine walking to a hotel room in Redding and getting on an elevator there and walking along the 2nd floor to our room. So, I told my wife I wanted her to drive me to Mt. Shasta because I couldn't go to 2 hotel rooms because I could barely walk at all from the pain after surgery for my (it turned out 2 hernias not just one when the teeny robot arms looked inside my body inflated with CO2 so he would be able to sew everything up and put a screen mesh in. there are just teeny little places where this went in so no real scarring at all with a laproscopic surgery like this with robotic stuff going on where no human hands have to go inside you to do this kind of thing now.
Also, I was with the Best robotic Hernia surgeon on the West coast of the United States incredibly well respected even by the nurses at this hospital and one nurse had had his wife's gall bladder treated by him through robotic surgery which was interesting too.
So, the whole thing was like something out of a Star Trek movie in what is actually possible now these days operation wise.
The previous day I had met a 40 year old man who had had robotic surgery in Yreka. I didn't know this was even possible there. I thought the closest place for robotic surgery was Redding before this.
Anyway, the world is evolving in many amazing amazing ways and I see my surgery as nothing less than a medical Miracle.
However, it did take several hours for the anesthesia to wear off but when I got to our hotel room in Mt. shasta it has a refrigerator and I was able to drink a glass of milk which was the first food in about 18 or 20 hours my mind straightened right now and I felt more normal and less chemically induced by various types of anesthesia and medicines before this.
So, just by drinking one glass of milk in our hotel room in Mt. Shasta I was able to start to become normal again.
However, what is really amazing is that they let me leave the hospital 3 hours after my surgery!
Now this is what is really incredible about many surgeries these days where you are in and out within 6 to 8 hours and you really are only operated on for an hour or more like me and then they get you up and out of the hospital within a few hours time.
So, so much for medical Miracles these days!
The point is are you in a position to be helped by all this Medical magic?
This remains to be seen.
By God's Grace
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