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Tomorrow I get surgery on my shoulder.

Last week I tied up as many loose ends as possible at work, and tried to tie up a few at home. I’m going to be out of work for six weeks, mostly because I won’t be able to drive.

I’m not so much freaked out about the surgery itself… I’ll be several shades of “under” while that’s going on. I guess they start with a sedative to calm me down, then a nerve block that stops all sensation to my shoulder and then the final knockout stuff that puts me completely under. No problem there.

What really freaks me out is that I won’t have use of my right arm, and I’m a VERY right handed person. I can’t do squat with my left hand. I’m hoping I can angle myself and pop my fingers out of the sling so there’s some way I can type while I’m in the sling, otherwise I think I’ll go really crazy. I have the Dragon voice recognition software, so I’m hoping I can still do some blogging and take lots of notes on at least a couple of the important EWAKI books QoMU has recommended.

I’m also worried about the Queen of my Universe. She’s already been sharing workspace during the day with our ever-present contractors, and has a hard enough time getting work done as it is. Now she has to put up with a partially crippled husband to boot. DOUG and Bill are both mother hens at heart though, so they’ll probably double as caretakers, especially if QoMU gets seated on a jury when she reports for Jury Duty on Wednesday.

If I can write it won’t be all bad, and there’s some stuff I figure I’ll be able to do right handed. We have a lot of work throughout the yard turning useless vegetation into food bearing vegetation. If someone else cuts the stuff down, I can drag it off one handed. Unless I learn how to use a chain saw one-handed. Not likely to happen.

I guess we’ll see. If you don’t hear from me for a few weeks you’ll know why.

Filed under: General Observations on March 16th, 2008