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So on Monday I had my operation.

This is the 1st St. Patrick’s Day in many St. Patrick’s days that I’ve spent more sedated than most of the people hanging out at the bars. I had three different levels of sedation for the operation and decided when I got home that I would wait for the pain. Instead of being proactive, with the nurse told me to do.

This was a big mistake. The only thing I can compare this to would be throwing my shoulder out in the first place. I know I know, female readers who are mothers will say that no pain, compares childbirth. That being said, getting your arm ripped open really fogging hurts.

The pain is not enough, but what really sucks is not having the use of my right hand. There are so many mundane things that you dowi th both hands that you don’t realize until you don’t have use of one of your hands.

In between bouts of hydrocodone haze I’ve been trying to do some productive things. My movie collection has become increasingly disorganized, and so I put all the steps of DVDs that have been hanging around the house in front of me with my trusty DVD envelopes and markers and put all of them in order. Then I had to take more hydrocodone.

Now that the pain has gone down a little bit. I have a few more hours of coherency during the day. The queen of my universe, always the Savior, got some voice recognition software for me. And I spent a couple hours yesterday training it and now it seems ready to roll. Now I’ll be able to blog, take notes, and write e-mails to occupy myself during my coherent moments.

Physical therapy started today. The queen of my universe was saddled with the morning of jury duty in so Doug took me to physical therapy. I’ve heard some horror stories about physical therapy, and that’s not to say that thus far they’re not true. My doctor, who looks like she’s 16 years old, said that would change with time.

This voice recognition software is really cool. I couldn’t even use it on my old computer because it’s such a huge memory pig. I think I have trained pretty well, except I forgot a lot of the text commands and it gets frustrating at times. Future possibilities for using the software seem endless. I want to see if I can use it when I’m driving the car without massive amounts of car noise which can interfere with how well the program understands my voice.

I guess it also depends on how many cars, deer or pedestrians are out on the road. Unfortunately I can’t drive for six weeks so the sidewalks and shoulders should be safe for the time being.

Filed under: General Observations on March 20th, 2008