I feel comfortable with the fate of the world in his hands, though. And Sara's already signed up as a campaign supporter minion.

Crap, my ability to multi-task today is for shit. I started the laundry, but then got all caught up in rendering my newsletter into its digital format and totally forgot that was going. So now I have to scramble, and laundry isn't something you can hurry. But I still want to get the majority done before I meet the SO for dinner in town tonight. Shoot.

Loki just got back from Anna's. I'd left him to go in and out on the deck and was doing chores. Anna got home and had her door open, so he jumped the rail and waltzed on it. Then he went looking for her (she was upstairs.) Clearly, he likes her.

I have market, haircut, pedicure and laundry this week. Going to try out the Y near my salon for the first time!

Well, today was an adventure. Had to go to the hospital for a second attempt at getting the heart filter removed. Found out that this doctor doesn't do the whole "putting the patient out first" thing, so I went through the whole procedure with lots of local anesthesia and Dilaudid. Actually, it didn't hurt at all (thanks to the Dilaudid, I'm sure!), but after spending an hour trying to get it out via the jugular, and then another 45 minutes trying via the femoral artery, the doc had to give up. So, I'll have this filter in for the rest of my life, unless a problem arises.

Good thing: remember what I said earlier this week about how my ideal guy is a tall thin geeky-looking gorgeous Asian man? Well, Dr. Han fit the bill--yay!

Now, both of my incisions are starting to ache, and I have no Tylenol in my apartment, but I do have a bottle of Vicodin from my surgery in November, so I'll have one of those before going to bed (early). I have to go to my first class of the summer tomorrow morning, so I'll leave a bit early and stop by the CVS for some Tylenol for classtime.

Rage. Tomorrow is tournament. CJ is on demo team. KCD has decided to show up after demo " cause the routine isn't as complex as prior tournaments". Hello? Support your kid no matter what? Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Found out that this doctor doesn't do the whole "putting the patient out first" thing, so I went through the whole procedure with lots of local anesthesia and Dilaudid.

What??? How is that even possible? It's in your heart! How can he not put you out for that??

In their area of the hospital, they weren't set up for general anesthesia.

Also, I found out that the "heart filter" as I understood it wasn't technically in the heart (although I keep calling it a heart filter because I forget to correct myself), but in the inner vena cava, actually closer to the stomach than in the heart. The blood coming from the femoral artery to the heart goes through the filter, so that's why I misunderstood it as being in the heart itself. It wasn't until I asked the doctor why I was feeling stomach pains when he was tugging on the filter to try and pull it out that I finally understood its actual location.

So, sorry about misidentifying it!!

That still sounds nightmarish to me without general anesthesia! But I'm glad you weren't able to feel much, anyway.

What does it filter out of the blood? I'm curious.

I would have anesthetized myself by passing the fuck out as soon as he brandished a scalpel.

Wait, Kathy, so you don't need it but it's okay to leave it there?

Also, YEOWCH. Sorry that was such a nasty experience.