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Here I am. I got home last night. Things went really smoothly. The worst part was the waiting in the morning before surgery. I was supposed to be at the hospital at 8:00am. Tom and I stayed in a motel the night before so we wouldn't have the long drive in the morning. The surgery before me was extremely complicated since it was a revision so I waited a long, long, time. I think it was somewhere around 2:00pm when I finally got taken to the OR. The wake up in the recovery room was the most painful part of the whole experience. Once they got my pain under control it was managed well. I felt so great I was just ready to go home. Dr. Nease is a brilliant surgeon. My surgery was pretty text book. He said it was about 1 1/2 hours long. My surgery buddy who I had met in our pre-surgery class was the long one. She had, had the surgery 20 years ago. Things inside her were quite a mess. Having Dr Nease do the revision probably saved her life. I had 2 Nurses. One was an angel sent from Heaven. The other was a male  nurse who appeared to me to be a jerk. At one point when my IV bag had run out he came in hooked up another one and said "You just paid $150 dollars for this bag of juice and paid me $75 dollars to hang it up." He was a real jerk. I had my liquid supper at 6:00 pm. We were told in class that we would be given 6 small meals. 3 meals and 3 snacks. At around 10:00pm I asked him about getting a snack and showed him the dietitians guide lines for the hospital stay. He said that was Dr Nease's opinion. They brought me half a popsicle. He said that it wasn't possible to do that in the evening because there isn't any one in the kitchen. Well the next morning I was nosing around in the cupboards in the hallway next to the ice machine. Guess what I found? lots of packages of chicken and beef bouillon and a large container of Injury unflavored. You think that might have been for the By-Pass patients? Duhhh. I really don't like ignorant. Anyway Surgery was Monday. When I seen Dr. Nease on Tuesday I asked him if he could try to get me out of there early on Wednesday since we drive so far.  His usual discharge isn't until somewhere between 3:00 and 6:00. After he finishes up all the surgery and office appointments. He told me he would come in between surgeries and try to have me discharged by Noon. And he did. The only thing I had to wait on was the Pharmacy. The Angel Nurse even called the scripts over to Rite Aid so they would be ready when we got there. We were afraid we would get to our town too late and that the pharmacy might have to order the liquid meds.  It rained all the way home. That made the getting out and walking every hour to prevent blood clots a tad unpleasant. But what the heck. I was headed home and feeling great. 
Praise God.