Surgery

Well, I have been here at Fort Huachuca, AZ since mid September. A lot of things have happened since I've been here, but overall I can't complain. I will fill you in on everything, but it might take a while.
I rented a house with a big back yard for my noodle Lelu to run around in. I didn't realize that the yards here have all these little stickers that get stuck in her paws. Not that it slows her down at all....she just runs on three legs til I pull the sticker out.
When I got here, I got assigned to a company where they told me I would be doing all kinds of really cool things. The actual job is pretty nifty, but its almost all civilians there and I ended up doing excel spreadsheets that a private could have done.
About a month into being here, I started feeling weak and lethargic.....I was bleeding a lot. I finally went and got it checked out and the Dr. decided that I needed to have surgery. This is not for the faint of heart....I ended up have a hemorrhoidectomy where they removed three of those bad boys (internally, not externally). They put me under and when I woke up I couldn't feel my entire lower body. Very nifty....until it wore off. I was laying there in the hospital and the pain came.....I had never felt anything like that before in my life. Now I have a high tolerance for pain, but this was crazy. I actually started crying and my friend that was sitting with me called the nurse and she put something in my iv that flushed my face, melted me like a baby and had me babbling all kinds of nonsense. Apparently it was something stronger than morphine. Whatever it was, they kept me nice and juiced up until I left a day and a half later. I can definitely see why people can get addicted to that kind of stuff. When you are in pain and then that morphine high comes along.....ahhhhhhh! They gave me percacet which kept me nice and loopy at home too. I couldn't believe the amount of pain that I was in. Then to make things even better, I have extreme swelling at all the incision sites that do not want to heal. Altogether, I have been at home resting for a month. They actually put me on convalescent leave (go home and recover leave) until December 26th but my company commander wants me back early.....so I head back to work on Monday. I have a follow up appointment December 14th with my Dr. He is the one that will tell me if I have actually healed up yet. I know the swelling hasn't gone away yet, but I doubt I will be doing anything hardcore enough to warrant damage.
I think that may be enough information to satisfy you for now.....maybe more than you wanted to know. hahahah. I will try to write more often and stop being such a slacker about this. Promise.