Brain Surgery

[jfargo]

I'm having brain surgery on October 7th at 9 AM.

That sentence was kind of a punch in the gut the first time I wrote it. Right up until that moment I was very nonchalant about the whole thing. "Yeah, it's brain surgery but it's easy brain surgery. No worries!" And really that's still true. As far as brain surgeries go the removal of my arachnoid

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[andrewducker]

I am so glad that a brain operation is now a 5-day thing. It's amazing the world we live in now.

[jfargo]

It really is pretty amazing. They're going to open my skull, poke around, close the skull, and send me home in less than a week!

At the same time, I'm like "5 days in the hospital? What the hell!? How am I supposed to be productive and help Laura with Lois if I'm stuck in the hospital that long?!"

[skitty]

You are supposed to get better so that you CAN be productive and help Laura with Lois again. And feel better and thrive, of course.

I can only imagine you must be terrified, but it sounds like a simple (and fascinating) procedure. I'll be thinking of you.

[jfargo]

In theory I completely understand that I'm supposed to rest and relax so that my healing process will be sped up and I'll be able to help Laura and entertain Lois with my shenanigans.

But theory and practice are different sometimes. Thoughts vs emotions, all that good stuff.

As for being terrified:

Kind of?

I'm worried more about the recovery than anything else. There's a bit of me that's being all "Nah, everything's cool, no worries" to hide that part of me that IS scared but for the most part I really am kind of on-the-level with it not being super scary.

Ask me on October 1st how I'm feeling and we'll see if I'm still cool as a cucumber. :)

[theglen]

Now comes the hardest part, coming up with an extremely impressive lie to tell about your new scar.