Surgery

Surgery went well, the fact that somewhere along the way I herniated myself made Dr. Berg's job just a bit easier. Looking back, I remember a “tug” and some pain around the area of the stoma while splitting firewood. Instead of this being a negative it worked in my favor with an operation that should have taken about two hours ending up just being forty five minutes.

Don't worry, I won't be splitting firewood anytime soon.

Early Tuesday morning Dr. Berg came in to check on me, I was feeling pretty good especially since I managed to avoid getting a Foley bag when taking a pee became difficult. (A hot lap around the ward helped to solve that problem). Doc is a no nonsense kind of guy and after seeing how good I was doing he just looked at me and said, “Mike, you're going to have a couple of rough days”.

My belly, when not covered with a bandage looks like a smile with a full complement of braces.