Back home -- Dave the Bionic Man

Got discharged from the hospital around 3:00PM this afternoon and am now home. Surgery went well -- 10:00AM Monday. The anesthesiologist was very good except that my legs didn't recover until late that evening. A classic case of rubberlegs. I started PT on Tuesday with walking and stepping up onto a platform. I have some restriction in movement until the dissected muscles heal but I am now completely pain free -- the only thing I feel is the ache from the incision and that will go away. Had an interesting event with the painkillers -- they have been giving me Percoset, two tabs every five hours. This worked except they would wear off and it took about 30-45 minutes for the next batch to take effect. Last evening, the night nurse said that he could give me my dose an hour early. This was at 10:00PM and since I wanted to get a solid nights sleep I said sure. I spent the next three hours having the most wonderful hallucinations. They were on a Hieronymus Bosch theme (with a bit of Eduard Gorey thrown in for fun). Not scary at all -- a lot of fun. What crowned off the whole experience is that my blanket was heavily textured and in my "dream state" I would be manipulating a branch and then I would wake up and realize that I was fondling the roughness of the blanket. Comments are turned back on and blogging will resume in full tomorrow or the next day.