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Post Op Day Four and Staving Off The Usurper....

                               Surgery was April 5th, today is Post-Op Day 4.                               Pain pierces so sharp, unforgiving and relentless.                             I imagine this is what it's like to be shot with an arrow. Craziest thing: in hospital, they gave me powerful IV pain med to stop pain---Dilaudid. After I puked oceans all over myself, bed, floor, johnny and people in the next state, I re-named it DilauDON'T. They offered me morphine. Ummmmmm---nope, not really feeling the heavy duty painkillers which cause as many problems as they (temporarily) solve. No IV narcotics, I said. So ---they started me on two Percocet every four hours, which I was getting around the clock. I wasn't sleeping much so I didn't mind the early a.m....