Anna's Home!

Anna was able to come home a day earlier than we expected – yeah!

We’ve spent the afternoon comparing our hospital stay, our current aches and pains and overall experience. A few things we’ve learned since the surgery:

1. A good homemade pecan pie is just as good as two doses of Percocet
2. When your belly is full of air, you can feel your innards shifting when you roll over
3. It only takes a three inch incision to remove a kidney, but sometimes it takes a 10-inch incision to put it back inside
4. There is no need to wax before surgery as the medical tape is just as effective as a salon treatment for hair removal
5. Pushing the nurse call button multiple times does not bring them to your bedside any faster
6. After going through a major surgery, walking around the block is considered heavy cardio!
7. Day five is when the incision itchies start
8. Pain is temporary
9. Incisions hurt, puking with incisions is excruciating
10. As miraculous as modern medicine is, it takes on an almost mystical feel when your life is positively impacted by it

Now that we are both home from the hospital I’ve come to realize our biggest current challenge is to keep from laughing, because nothing hurts our wounds more than a big belly laugh – and that is nearly impossible to avoid when the two of us get together.

Some pictures Bob took on surgery day - first one with Anna and Rick post surgery, the second of the boys (Scott, Josh and Brian) wasting time during the surgery playing (what else?) poker.