Back at home.
I feel fantastic, but not really if you know what I mean. I am told everything would be hurting immensely if it weren’t for this oxycodone and this “pain ball”. It took about two hours to go through the procedure of unhooking me at Rex from the lung surgery, the last thing left is my “pain ball”, it is still attached under my skin with a little coil and it dispenses medicine to numb my side where all the incisions were made, nowadays doctors can make incisions and they don’t have to crack open your chest. The pain ball as you can see, comes in a nice little murse you carry around with you, just like Tom Brady has. Ted here is displaying the pain ball murse.
As the pain ball inside the murse dispenses numbing medicine, it becomes smaller. Genius! Carrying this thing around looks pretty pathetic but I am not complaining, glad I can carry it around! As I picked up my prescriptions toting my murse, I kept giggling and thinking about Gina Lynn the adult film star who came for an interview awhile back, because in her purse was a dog, not a pain ball. If a man carries a fanny pack, it’s a murse, if a woman carries a fanny pack, she has the right to still call it a purse.
I am serious, that cute little doggie went everywhere with her in her purse. Hopefully not on the set.
Rex Hospital in Raleigh has Cancer Navigators, and as far as I know, it’s a first. As Dr. Parsons was involved in this seven hour surgery, Bryant Washington, starring as the “Cancer Navigator”, observed the surgery, then walked out to the waiting room where family and friends were waiting and explained each step of the surgery to them. How awful it must be to have to wait seven tense hours without knowing anything. And in Dr. Parsons case, can you imagine just STANDING seven hours? The beauty of it all, is the “lymph nodes in question” were examined first and found to be non-cancerous and this only took an hour, so after only one of those seven hours, everyone (except me) knew that if there was cancer in this tumor, it had not spread and you talk about taking a load off.
Bryant and I cracked up because after talking, I found out he had won a trip to see Page and Plant “UnLedded” at The Omni in Atlanta from the station back in 1996.
I love sh** like that.
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I am sorry to hear about your murse, but I had cancer once a few years back, and had to carry around a catheter bag for a few weeks, so it could be worse. You don't want to be awake when they put one of those in. I'm glad it wasn't cancer. You're the only reason I listen to the radio anymore. Get them to give you toradol. That stuff will kill pain and improve your outlook on life. Just don't sign anything while on it.
ReplyDeleteSo glad to hear everything is fine! Can't wait to hear your sexy voice back on the air!
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