All's well,

...so far. The day ended up being a 13 hour day - lots more than Chris or I bargained for. I figured the worst case scenario would be that she could be home by 2 p.m. NOT. Hahnemann is a nice hospital and they are very efficient about getting you in for outpatient surgery, but the hard part was getting out! And it was all due to the demands of work for a medical excuse. Some of you may remember that my shining personnel stars rejected three doctor's notes following my foot surgery adventure. In an effort to avoid this pratfall, I was certain to explain to eveyone pre-surgery what I needed when I left the hospital. That ended up costing me 90 minutes after the fact, probably closer to two hours. I don't know why doctors have such a difficult time doing excuses for work. The doc had told me months ago that he would write an excuse for 6 weeks, but that would be a worst case scenario. He will determine the most likely path on 8/4. So the excuse I got was written to cover until 8/3. No big deal. I just need to make sure he writes the correct thing on 8/4. We arrived in perfect time this morning. I didn't have to wait very long until they took me to prep. And the next thingI knew I walked into an operating room that was peopled by a Cecil B. DeMille cast. My doc, naturally has thousands of interns, students and colleagues intersted in his every move. I, apparently, was a model case that everyone wanted to see. And it was a micro-laser technique that I suppose is really quite interesting to the medical types. There were computers and screens and microscope-type instruments populating every corner of the room and I wondered how all the people were going to NOT interfere with my surgeon. And it was a really "short" procedure. The doc announced the success in short order to Chris. I somehow got a nosebleed during the procedure and they stuffed my nostril with something that when they pulled it out appeared about the size of a tampon - which made me wonder, except that it was not shaped correctly. It took them forever to get that packing out my nostril too - another delay, before waiting for the precious work excuse. I will get a chance to evaluate and I will complain about the post-op delays. Chris took me to deliver my hard-won excuse to work and then to the pharmacy to fill the pain med prescription - NOT Percost, thankfully - Tylenol 3 - a new experience on which I will probably report shortly. So I'm off to LaLa Land.,,and golden silentce for the next 7 days. Keep checking back. This has potential for more conundrums than I have previously dreamed.