Kind thoughts sought.

On Monday I had laproscopic surgery for a paraesophageal hernia*. Immediately in post-op, both of my hands went numb apparently (nobody knows for sure) through some combination of anaesthetic and arm positioning during the surgery. This has mostly subsided except for some tingling and uncoordination which makes typing difficult, writing illegible, and playing the guitar impossible.

Today everything has started to go blurry, which could be caused by a number of things including the pain meds, lack of nutrition, lack of hydration (at this point in the recovery i can only have lukewarm liquids with the viscosity of water), etc. Choosing between pain and potential blindness, I am choosing pain which is no fun.

For some reason (cant' imagine) I'm feeling somewhat sorry for myself.

So kind thoughts would be greatly appreciated.


FOOTNOTE NOT FOR THE SQUEAMISH
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*this means in my case that about 1/2 of my stomach had snuck up through the hole in my diaphragm that the esophagus comes through, and was holding unnatural converse in my chest cavity with my lungs and heart. Surgery involved yanking it back down, closing the extralarge hole, and wrapping the top of my stomach around the bottom of my esophagus to provide a better valve there (which was not performing to specs).