T-About 15 Hours

Well, tomorrow is surgery day. I'm tired as hell right now, but I'm staying up because I have to go NPO at midnight, and I'm not looking forward to not getting to eat for 14 hours. I found out that black coffee counts as a clear liquid, and I'm allowed to have those until 8AM, so I'm thinking I'm desperate enough to get up early and drink coffee.

At the moment I'm not really very nervous. I have a feeling that will change in the morning. I've never had spinal anesthetic before, and that worries me a little. I know I'll be awake (but hopefully drugged out of my brains), but I'm a little scared of what that will be like. When I was in the hospital I had a couple procedures on Versed and I mostly don't remember, but I do remember some, and I'm not sure I want to remember someone drilling holes in my leg bones.

And I just decided it was a good idea (spoiler: I was WRONG!) to watch YouTube videos of ACL reconstruction surgery. This is pretty close to what I'll be getting, if you're morbidly curious (and I do mean morbidly – it's pretty graphic). Yeah, um, I hope I get lots and lots of drugs before this thing. Because YIKES.

Okay, I'm going to go eat again before I can't anymore. I'll update here as soon as I can post-surgery (husband is bringing my iPad to my room, but I'm not sure how coherent I'll be) on how it went and how I'm feeling. The picture up there is what my knee looks like today so I can compare with what it looks like when I take the packing off.

Alright, wish me luck!