I can Breathe again

I can finally breathe again.  I had surgery to resection my windpipe on Friday.    The surgery went very well. I am so glad to finally have this done with.  It only took one time to get the IV in this time.  Last time it 10 times to get it in. This time I drank a lot of water the day before so it would be easier to get the IV in.  Now I have one more surgery to go. I have to get the plate put in my head.  After that I am done with the surgeries.  I am so glad I am so close to being done with all of this. I cannot wait to go running again and go to Zumba.  I want to run a marathon after going through all this.  I am going to start doing the Cancer walks. I will probably be able to go home tomorrow. I have been in here since Friday.  I have enjoyed being in the hospital this time.  I still have to be on a liquid diet since I have been here. I see the speech therapist tomorrow so hopefully I will get to eat real food tomorrow.  I have been on morphine for pain but they took me off of it yesterday.  It was making me itch.  Or something was making me itch.  I am not in a lot of pain now.  It was really sore right after surgery. Now It just hurts because I have to stay at a 40 degree angle and it is getting sore from being in the same position all day and the past 2 days.  I had two IVs after the surgery.  They had to take those out last night because my veins were starting to collapse so they had to put another IV in.  The 3rd IV did not hurt because I was used to being stuck.  The anesthesiologist looked like the guy Shane from The Walking Dead.  If course when I asked him if he watched it he did not know what I was talking about.  I have really liked all the medical workers at Emory. They are all so very nice and you can tell they love their job.  But overall surgery went well. I was not nervous this time because I was ready to get it over with and be able to breathe again.  I am excited about being able to exercise again.  All I left to do is the plate and hopefully that will be sooner than later. But that is about all for now. The pain med makes me sleepy.