Author: Darren Long

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Getting ready…

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Almost have everything packed up for Thursday morning. Laptop… Notebook… Kindle… Yep, those are the important things.

There at KU Med, the color of your footsies let the nurses know if you can take yourself to the bathroom or not. Yellow is “no”, and I forget the other color because, well, I never get it. I’m bringing my own color: blue. I wonder if that will have any significance other than a laugh and a nurse taking them off my feet to put the yellow ones on?

Got all my zip-up hoodies all washed and ready to go. Can’t wear any regular shirts with wires out your head, so….

Counting….

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Did the PreOp today. No big deal. Had some blood drawn, which I didn’t do last time. I did figure out the times for the MRI before the surgery which will be 6:30. Check in there at 6:00. Then go up to surgery check in and wait…

I counted my MRI’s today. The official number of MRI scans that I have had within the last year, plus this one, will be….. drum roll please…. 9! I will have had 9 MRI scans.

125 Staples.

Three Spect Scans.

One Wada.

One Pet Scan.

One Cognitive Test.

Now I’m scratching my dented head to think of what else….

You have to be kidding me….

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This morning I got the official call from the surgeon’s office to confirm that I will be coming in tomorrow morning for my pre-op.

“Darren, we have you down for your 8:30 tomorrow morning for pre-op of the surgery next Thursday.”

“Yep. I’ll be there.”

“One more thing: the surgeon has requested that you come in at an earlier time so you can have a MRI before the surgery. So, instead of coming in at 9:00 and the surgery at 11:00, you will need to come in earlier.”

Do you know how many MRI’s I’ve had over the last year? Do you really think there’s been any difference at all between them? I’m thinking that they just accidentally delete them over and over again and I just have to keep going back and replacing them.

In fact, I just had a MRI a couple weeks ago….

The Date for the Next Surgery.

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We just got “the call” from the hospital and they told us the surgery will be Thursday, January 23rd. Two weeks from today. Now that we know when that is, I need to get myself ready. I think I’ll be better this time around than the last. I have a bit more of an idea of what to expect this time around.

Curious as to how this/these cuts will come out since I can still feel the “dents” in my skull on the top of my head from the last surgery.