Brrr! It's 44 Degrees this Morning in North Central Florida and Feels Great.

Here is the kidney surgery update, everything went well and the right kidney was removed on Thursday, November 5th.  During surgery chemotherapy was done into the bladder to kill any cancer cells.  I was discharged on the 6th after several hours of debate and waiting for my room to be available. It was ready about an hour before I was discharged, really why did you even bother.  What bothered me most is since the hospital knew I was having surgery a room should have been readily available for patients coming out of the recovery room.

That's me before going into the surgery and me after the surgery still smiling and relieved the hair net thing is off.

My son clowning around before they wheel me away. If I am not mistaken he gave the same face before I was wheel away for my hysterectomy last year.

Doesn't matter, the pain wasn't too bad and from the moment I came out of surgery I pretty much slept. I had more pain from the intubation that knock my 2 front teeth loose I needed to make a dental appointment for Monday,  Time for dentures.   The surgeon arranged for home health nurse to be at my home the day after I was released, which means someone should have been at my home on Saturday, lack of accurate communication for days but someone finally showed up on Tuesday.  By then I was doing quite well I was emptying Simons liter box, giving him fresh food and water and taking a shower.  My son came to care for Simon everyday while I was in the hospital and after.  The home health nurse did change my large bandage because it got wet in the shower.  She put on a waterproof bandage which stayed dry after my next shower.

My Simon didn't know what to do with himself when I first came home but he finally gained the confidence to squeeze in next to me for a nice long nap.

I am quite tired and tire easily since the surgery.  I am still eating a soft diet because chewy food at this time with the loosened teeth is a painful option and I don't want to swallow a tooth.  They sent home a piece of back tooth they broke off as well.

Today I would like to get some kind of stitching done, I've finished reading the 2 books I had mentioned in the last post and I have a few here I could read but the antibiotic I was taking made me so sleepy and disoriented I didn't want to start a book I would most likely forget.  I'm still a bit off so maybe just some simple crochet stitching will help me sit up instead of laying down all day and night.  I have sat here at my computer for about an hour so that's helpful and I am just getting drowsy so let me post this and see if I can pick up my crocheting.

I'd like to put a few more rows into this shawl.