Well, I went to the doctor yesterday to get surgery scheduled to fix a hernia that I have.  I’ve had this hernia for many years.  Not really sure how many years I have had it but I basically do not remember not having it.  Anyways, lately it has been causing a little bit of pain so I decided to finally tell someone about it and went to the doctor for it about a month ago.  He set an appointment for me with the surgeon for the 12th of this month (yesterday) to schedule surgery for it.

I will have it fixed on Friday July 18th of this year.  I have to be at the hospital at 7am and the surgery is at 9am.  I am actually sort of looking forward to getting this fixed as it will be nice to no longer have it.  The surgery is an outpatient surgery and the doctor said I would go home between 1-2 hours after I wake back up from it.  The surgery I guess takes around one hour to complete.

This will be my 3rd surgery so far.  My first surgery was in 2002 to fix my scoliosis.  I had another surgery in 2006 to remove a growth from my head.  Surgery doesn’t scare me at all really, especially since my major back surgery I had.  Nothing can be as bad as having back surgery (at least I don’t think).  The only thing I hate about surgery is the IV they stick up your arm.  For some reason I tend to not react well to those fluids (I think it is just salt water) being put in me.  Last time I had surgery I almost fainted when they started that IV.

Anyways, I am also starting to get over being sick.  I have been pretty sick with a viral infection (according to my doctor) over the past week.  Today I really ate for the first time since sunday (6 days ago).  I had a really bad stomach ache, headache, diarrhea, and chest pain.  The chest pain I guess was from the viral infection.  I was given tyolnol with codine to help get that away, which also helped get rid of the diarrhea.  Although, it actually just constipated me instead.

Well, that’s all for now.