Going in for surgery next week

Hey, I have to do something to pass the time. I am in a motel room tonight, will make the big drive / ride home tomorrow (about 4 hours), I am trying to cut way back on the pain medication, you know that as needed bit. The pain pump, plus the oral hydrocodone they fed me before leaving the hospital had me loopy most of the afternoon, it is about midnight now and I have been pain medication free for a bit over 12 hours. I am only a little more sore, but a lot more alert to the world, more coordinated (less typing mistakes), seem to be able to walk around a bit easier, etc. I was rather surprised just how liberally they handed out the pain medication for me to go home on, 10mg Hydrocodone w/ 325mg APAP, bottle of 60 with 1 refill and instructions not more than 1 every 4 hours. At 1 every 4 hours I would be completely oblivious to the world, and this was with me telling them I react easily to pain killers. For comparison when I fell and broke my back last year I was sent home with 50 7.5mg/500 Hydrocodone with APAP and only ever took half of them over several months, even then I would usually split the pill into halves or quarters

Ike.

Thanks for all the support around here, with all the health things that have been going bad around here the last year or two, I really needed something to go good, at least getting the best option on the table. After many months of diagnosis my wife was diagnosed with a slow degenerative disease last year, then the very next day I fell and broke my back and spent 4 months in a back brace every waking hour, at the same time my father was dying of cancer, 13 months from first symptoms until his death last Feb.