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Goodbye Staples. Hello Weight.
/6 Comments/in North America, Travelogue, USA /by allanIt’s been 29 days since my accident in Tica Tica, Bolivia. 26 days since my surgery in Newport Beach, California. I’m moving around on the crutches more easily. I’m off the narcotics and have switched to Advil. My leg still stiffens up at night. I wake. Stretch and flex the bugger. Then have a hard […]
Hospital Daze & Nights.
/3 Comments/in North America, Travelogue, USA /by allanI tried to get as much sleep as possible that first night in the hospital. It’d been a long journey to get here — three and a half days to be exact. But I’d spend the next three and a half in that hospital bed. I gave the nursing staff and my doctor a scare […]
Where’s Doc?
/0 Comments/in North America, Travelogue, USA /by allanI’m getting tired of sleeping, pain killers and doing nothing. Some say I should relish in my down time. I’d like to spice it up. I’m coming along. The nights are the hardest. Between pain medicine wearing off and my leg immobile for hours while I sleep, I wake up stiff and in pain. A […]
Two Weeks.
/2 Comments/in North America, Travelogue, USA /by allanHad my first doctor’s appointment today; a week and a half after surgery. He carefully unraveled the gauze around the splint his team put on me in the operating room while revealing some nasty blood stains that caused me to turn away from the view of my own appendage. I don’t like blood. I don’t […]
From Admitting To Surgery In Four Easy Screws.
/2 Comments/in Bolivia, South America, Travelogue, USA /by allanGlorious ocean view private room and the sunset taken from my hospital bed. Hoag Hospital sits on the bluffs in Newport Beach overlooking the Pacific Ocean. In the north end of this Southern California playground that has captured the country’s attention through the silly TV program “The O.C.”, the hospital is the tallest structure around. […]
Goodbye Bolivia (for now) Three Flights Back To Los Angeles.
/8 Comments/in Bolivia, South America, Travelogue /by allanWhen I woke up from the anesthesia I was back in my hospital room with my roommates. A crowd of visitors had gathered by the elderly man in the corner diagonally from me. Last night my moans of pain didn’t bother him as he muttered and spoke in his sleep. But he didn’t speak Spanish. […]
Waiting & Waiting For The Bolivian Operating Room.
/4 Comments/in Bolivia, South America, Travelogue /by allanI wake up to the sound of water splashing on the floor of my hospital room. A squatty lady in a smock holding a bucket of water hanging on her arm flicks water over the floor with her other hand. She leaves and quickly returns with a mop which she pushes through the room, under […]