Well, the port is in. I’m not so sure I’m so all fired glad it’s there, but I’m glad the process is over. No food, no liquid, and all that stuff this morning. It wasn’t painful. They gave me enough lidocaine or what ever, and something to semi-knock-me-out but I was mostly awake and relaxed while they did it. It was done in radiology. I was on the x-ray table with a very thin pad under me and a pillow under my head and another under my knees. Disrobed, top only, and they painted my neck and chest with that orange kill-all-the-bugs iodine mixture they use for surgery and I had a line in my right hand where they could put in the almost sleepy anesthetic. After I was “relaxed” they started covering me with small sterile sheets. They had me turn my head as far to the left as I could and they had those sheets on my head, on half my face, on my chest, and on my neck. After a while it started getting rather warm under all those sheets! He put lidocaine in my neck, in my chest, in my shoulder and about very place they could get to. Any way, they had some kind of x-ray over my neck and chest that then displayed on a computer screen. The surgeon made a small cut in my neck and could watch in the screen to see that he was going into the right vein as he ran a small wire down to the area where the port would be put. No pain at all. Nor was there any when he made the incision to insert the port. What’s outside the skin is a couple of inches down from the neck and right shoulder bone and kinda lumpy right now. We’ll see how they use it tomorrow. Meanwhile, it started to ache a little about an hour ago and I smeared my lidocaine-prilocaine cream on it. I took some Tylenol when I first came home then slept for about three hours. It was no where near as horrible as I had dreaded whenever I did fall off the barge. Which.... is why I tried my best to stay on and not let my imagination run amok. One more time I’ve proved that doing what you have to do about the problem and then figuring an asteroid might hit before the shit hits the fan is a good thing to do. I saved myself a lot of fear. I’ve saved a good book to take tomorrow. They say it will be about two and a half hours. I shall eat a good breakfast then go relax and read a good book tomorrow. That’s my plan! It’s at eight in the morning though. El Barfo. Maybe just as well. I still don’t do mornings so maybe I’ll sleep instead of read. Who knows? I’ll let you know. Back onto the barge. Been a bit of a stressful day. I think I’ll have Thai ice tea and a huge fresh peach tonight. My Nubian guard is ready to get us started as we sail on to Abu Simbel. Thank you again, my friends This IS one hell of a trip, ain’t it? LOL
Posted on: Thu, 05 Sep 2013 03:34:58 +0000
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