My Surgery:
Some of you may know this already but I’m having surgery next Tuesday. Here’s the email I sent out, alerting everyone to this fact.
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Some of you may already know this but I am headed into surgery next Tues. morning, Dec. 10 at the Stanford Sleep Clinic. The deal is I have something called Sleep Apnea, which means that I stop breathing when I sleep. This is caused by a combination of factors: enlarged tonsils and uvula, an irregularly small jaw, a deviated septum, and a history of parental snoring, all of which I have. Left untreated, Sleep Apnea can cause early cardiac trouble, strokes, and at worst, your heart can stop in the middle of the night. This is why I’m doing the surgery now.
Details: The procedure takes about 90 minutes. I will head down to Palo Alto with Suzan next Monday afternoon for a Pre-op consultation. I’ll be staying that night in a hotel in Palo Alto with Suzan and my parents who are coming into town for the surgery. Surgery is Tuesday morning and I stay overnight so they can observe me sleeping. With any luck, I head home Wed. morning.
I’ll essentially be out of commission for a solid week, with a very very sore throat. I’ll be subsisting on mush and other soft foods for at least ten days and for the first week, it will be hard to talk and swallow and do much of anything except sit around and pass time. After that I should be on the mend and back up to full strength by Christmas, New Years at the latest.
Optimally, the surgery will cure the apnea by 50-75%. It’s still something I’ll have to keep an eye on for a long to come.
So what I’d like to do is rally ya’ll, the people whom I love, these upcoming two weeks. I know this is what’s best for me and my health and that it’s less dangerous than a giant pain in the ass but I’ve never stayed overnight in a hospital or been operated on before. It scares the hell out of me.
Therefore, beginning that Saturday, Dec. 14, I will be welcoming any and all visitors (real or virtual) as well as donations of mushy or liquid food (soup, Jell-O, pudding, anything mashed or pured). I can’t promise I will be thrilling company, but I will try to entertain in any non-verbal way I can (sock puppets, mime etc.). Plus, you’ll to take a spin on my new XBOX (a Chanukah) gift, watch a very large stack of DVD’s and borrow anything from my library you like.
So please let me know if you can stop by any day between Saturday the 14th and Christmas Day. Believe me, I’m not going anywhere and I would love to see all of you. Or if ya don’t live around here, just to hear some well wishes.
Your friend,
Kevin
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hey kevin – do ya mean Dec. 14th and not Sept?
best of luck with the surgery. i’m sure all will go well. you have a good woman in suzan.
sorry, but i cannot stop by you live to far away 😉
hey kevin – do ya mean Dec. 14th and not Sept?
best of luck with the surgery. i’m sure all will go well. you have a good woman in suzan.
sorry, but i cannot stop by you live to far away 😉
Dec. yes. And thank you for the well wishes.
Dec. yes. And thank you for the well wishes.
Hang in there, buddy. The anticipation for these things is usually ten times worse than the actual event, but it’s still terrifying!
Hang in there, buddy. The anticipation for these things is usually ten times worse than the actual event, but it’s still terrifying!
Thanks dude. I’ve gotten a lot of great support. Man, I love the web.
Thanks dude. I’ve gotten a lot of great support. Man, I love the web.
Get your glottis patched up and get better! I need you mellifluous in January! 🙂
Take care.
Get your glottis patched up and get better! I need you mellifluous in January! 🙂
Take care.
Take care, sending well wishes from Maryland.
Take care, sending well wishes from Maryland.
Thanks Tom. Great to hear from you.
Thanks Tom. Great to hear from you.
Agh! I don’t visit for a while and you have to have surgery! Eek. Sorry for not dropping by sooner. I hope you’re feeling better soon.
Agh! I don’t visit for a while and you have to have surgery! Eek. Sorry for not dropping by sooner. I hope you’re feeling better soon.
I would LOVE to stop by and visit you! Unfortunately I won’t be in San Fran anytime soon.
Good luck and here’s to quick recovery!
I would LOVE to stop by and visit you! Unfortunately I won’t be in San Fran anytime soon.
Good luck and here’s to quick recovery!