{"id":25787,"date":"2010-11-26T11:47:09","date_gmt":"2010-11-26T19:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=25787"},"modified":"2010-12-05T10:42:20","modified_gmt":"2010-12-05T18:42:20","slug":"i-am-home-from-my-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=25787","title":{"rendered":"I Am Home From My Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Surgery went fine. Surgeon recommended against fixing deviated septum, too minor, just did some other tweaks so i can breathe easier.<\/p>\n<p>Now I just have to stay off the coke for six weeks. <A HREF=\"http:\/\/yourmoralleader.camstreams.com\">I am live on my cam<\/a>, hoping to milk this moment for all the attention i can get. <\/p>\n<p>I have to abstain from strenuous activity for two weeks so I guess that means no yoga and no doing the Jean-Louis move in Alexander Technique (standing at the end of a table and reaching down over someone&#8217;s head and chest to help promote width in their lower back, this fancy pants move requires that I tuck in my beard, my shirt and my belly).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d probably be feeling a helluva lot better right now if the Dallas Cowboys had only won their game yesterday. <\/p>\n<p>I do have some vicodin by prescription and am willing to share it with those close female friend who stop by on a mission of mercy.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/rabbs.com\">Rabbi Rabbs<\/a> was a total mentch, picking up my pain meds, and driving me home from hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Chaim Amalek emails: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n1. When you go to shul, insist that you are feeling fine &#8212; even if you are feeling fine.<br \/>\n2. If you don&#8217;t need all that vicodin, dude, this is where Craigslist really shines.  Post an ad saying you have all of this prescription pain killer that you really don&#8217;t need, but you could use some comely female companionship.  The resulting correspondence should yield laughs aplenty.  Just don&#8217;t actually meet any of these women.<br \/>\n3. Figure out what you take to be a treat, preferably one that is affordable, and treat yourself to it.<br \/>\n4. Invite people to visit you.  Let them feel like trash if they do not.<br \/>\n5. Date excuse: &#8220;I need a distraction right now.  Don&#8217;t worry, I&#8217;m harmless, as my doctor warned me against any strenuous activity.  I just need a bit of company.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Feel well soon.  But try to milk it as long as possible. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Saturday night. My surgery was for <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.american-rhinologic.org\/patientinfo.septoplasty.phtml\">Turbinate Reduction<\/a>. I spent the last half of Friday swabbing blood out of my nose but the bleeding has mainly stopped now. Got some sponge in my nose which will come out Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surgery went fine. Surgeon recommended against fixing deviated septum, too minor, just did some other tweaks so i can breathe easier. Now I just have to stay off the coke for six weeks. I am live on my cam, hoping &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=25787\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[2986,24110,10790,24375,24376],"class_list":["post-25787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-coke","tag-septum","tag-six-weeks","tag-strenuous-activity","tag-tweaks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25787"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26137,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25787\/revisions\/26137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}