dragonsanddemons
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27 Jul 2020, 10:55 am
27 Jul 2020, 9:46 pm
Yep, someone else did the swab and I didn’t even get out of the car, I just had the window open. It did hurt a bit and also make me feel like I was going to sneeze, but that’s about it. They have to roll the swab around in there for ten seconds or so. It was not pleasant or comfortable, but it was well within the “bearable” range, to me.
I have heard other people making a big song and dance about the nose swab, but I didn't want you to get anxious. Glad to hear it was a problem for you.
So when will you get the test results?
I would have thought bringing a net was a better option, than a tissue,
If your nose started to run away.
An obvious joke,
But still worth the effort, imo.
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30 Jul 2020, 11:00 am
Yep, someone else did the swab and I didn’t even get out of the car, I just had the window open. It did hurt a bit and also make me feel like I was going to sneeze, but that’s about it. They have to roll the swab around in there for ten seconds or so. It was not pleasant or comfortable, but it was well within the “bearable” range, to me.
I have heard other people making a big song and dance about the nose swab, but I didn't want you to get anxious. Glad to hear it was a problem for you.
So when will you get the test results?
I would have thought bringing a net was a better option, than a tissue,
If your nose started to run away.
An obvious joke,
But still worth the effort, imo.
I would have received a phone call somewhere between when I got the test and when I was scheduled for surgery if the test was positive, so just had to assume it was negative when we didn’t hear anything back about it. I’d heard the swab was going to feel like they were trying to find my brain through my nose. It wasn’t fun, but it wasn’t all that horrible, either, people are exaggerating when they say stuff like that.
I thought about trying to make a similar joke like that when I mentioned it, but it wasn’t running all that much, I caught it with my bare hands, no net needed
Actually I just grabbed a napkin we had in the car and that did the trick.
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30 Jul 2020, 12:02 pm
So, I’m back home after the surgery. I don’t even have any memory of leaving the prep/recovery room I was in, I had to ask my mom when I woke up if they were done when I woke up because I remember exactly nothing where I wasn’t in the waiting room or the prep/recovery room. I was surprised to find no dressing or anything, they just glued the wound closed and put in a few stitches and that’s it. I can take a shower tomorrow without the wound covered or anything, just can’t submerge it in a bath or pool for a while. I’m still a bit groggy from the anesthesia, but much less so once we stopped at McDonalds and I got some food into me (though it still took me around forty-five minutes to an hour to write this legibly 
And they offered me a choice of a cherry or lime slushy afterward, which was nice. I’m still medded enough that nothing really hurts yet, though I’ll probably have to head back to bed to sleep off the remaining effects at some point fairly soon. Prescription for some sort of pain medicine and a scopolamine patch by my left ear, which is meant to prevent nausea for two or three days, but it also can cause dry mouth, and if the dry mouth becomes significantly worse than the nausea, I can take it off earlier.
Wand becasusecc Ibvvvvb thoughthnim ithnn wouldvbrbggggeeffvbb. Funny, herde’s doke oof myb bundedtted writ8uuing while aVnmbbh esttyijkkkkkl under the effrbhggggg of yhrg aazxnneesthhrefsia
(Translation - and because I thought it would be funny, here’s some of my unedited writing while I’m still under the effects of anesthesia )
30 Jul 2020, 12:10 pm
30 Jul 2020, 12:13 pm
30 Jul 2020, 1:47 pm
Yep, someone else did the swab and I didn’t even get out of the car, I just had the window open. It did hurt a bit and also make me feel like I was going to sneeze, but that’s about it. They have to roll the swab around in there for ten seconds or so. It was not pleasant or comfortable, but it was well within the “bearable” range, to me.
I have heard other people making a big song and dance about the nose swab, but I didn't want you to get anxious. Glad to hear it was a problem for you.
So when will you get the test results?
I would have thought bringing a net was a better option, than a tissue,
If your nose started to run away.
An obvious joke,
But still worth the effort, imo.
I would have received a phone call somewhere between when I got the test and when I was scheduled for surgery if the test was positive, so just had to assume it was negative when we didn’t hear anything back about it. I’d heard the swab was going to feel like they were trying to find my brain through my nose. It wasn’t fun, but it wasn’t all that horrible, either, people are exaggerating when they say stuff like that.
I thought about trying to make a similar joke like that when I mentioned it, but it wasn’t running all that much, I caught it with my bare hands, no net needed
Actually I just grabbed a napkin we had in the car and that did the trick.BTW, Big feet run in my family, also.
30 Jul 2020, 1:51 pm
And they offered me a choice of a cherry or lime slushy afterward, which was nice. I’m still medded enough that nothing really hurts yet, though I’ll probably have to head back to bed to sleep off the remaining effects at some point fairly soon. Prescription for some sort of pain medicine and a scopolamine patch by my left ear, which is meant to prevent nausea for two or three days, but it also can cause dry mouth, and if the dry mouth becomes significantly worse than the nausea, I can take it off earlier.Wand becasusecc Ibvvvvb thoughthnim ithnn wouldvbrbggggeeffvbb. Funny, herde’s doke oof myb bundedtted writ8uuing while aVnmbbh esttyijkkkkkl under the effrbhggggg of yhrg aazxnneesthhrefsia
(Translation - and because I thought it would be funny, here’s some of my unedited writing while I’m still under the effects of anesthesia
) "I'll have what she is having." <mega hug>
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And they offered me a choice of a cherry or lime slushy afterward, which was nice. I’m still medded enough that nothing really hurts yet, though I’ll probably have to head back to bed to sleep off the remaining effects at some point fairly soon. Prescription for some sort of pain medicine and a scopolamine patch by my left ear, which is meant to prevent nausea for two or three days, but it also can cause dry mouth, and if the dry mouth becomes significantly worse than the nausea, I can take it off earlier.Wand becasusecc Ibvvvvb thoughthnim ithnn wouldvbrbggggeeffvbb. Funny, herde’s doke oof myb bundedtted writ8uuing while aVnmbbh esttyijkkkkkl under the effrbhggggg of yhrg aazxnneesthhrefsia
(Translation - and because I thought it would be funny, here’s some of my unedited writing while I’m still under the effects of anesthesia
)I'm glad that the surgery went well! I'm rooting for you Dragons and hope that what they find isn't too serious.
But hey, at least for a while you got to awaken your Dragon Soul(if only a little of it.) cause I have no idea what language those words are at the bottom!
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