Backdated: ICU Day 2
Feb. 14th, 2025 08:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kevin_standleeI don't have a lot of memory of this day, which was the first full day I was in the hospital after my hernia surgery. I think I must have spent much of it in my ICU bed asleep except when they had to wake me up to take the many blood tests and to inject me with various medications. Due to the excision of 10 cm of my small intestine, they had to essentially shut down my entire digestive tract. That meant no liquids at all — not even water. I was fed and hydrated intravenously, and there was a tube down my nose and into my stomach to keep anything from getting past there. This was no fun at all, and my memory of this time, such as it is, is of intense thirst.
Several people — Kuma Bear, Cliff Dunn, Cheryl Morgan, and others — tried to get the word out through various social media systems about what happened to me. Many of these social media groups are very much walled gardens, and regrettably some of them seem to encourage people to have the attitude of "If you don't post here, you don't exist."
Several people — Kuma Bear, Cliff Dunn, Cheryl Morgan, and others — tried to get the word out through various social media systems about what happened to me. Many of these social media groups are very much walled gardens, and regrettably some of them seem to encourage people to have the attitude of "If you don't post here, you don't exist."
