The Very Bad Terrible Awful No Good Leg,cont'd.

I'm in Abbott Northwestern Hospital, suffering a serious infection in my right knee.  The Baker Cyst that ruptured help disguise the fact of the infection and it wasn't until the pain was not brought under control by oxycontin (is that how you spell it?) that they started looking elsewhere.  I had surgery Monday afternoon to "lavage" (wash out) the poison and I'm feeling better.  But it's the wrong kind of infection, the kind that resists antibiotics, so this is going to be a long siege.  The hospital is nice, the doctors and nurses are nice, I have hopes of an ordinary recovery.

But I'm still taking significant doses of dialudid and so am not tracking very well.  I should take notes on the hallucination I had on waking up in recovery, where I was convinced I was in the basement area of Burger King - which I knew was wrong and so wondered if I had died and this was not the afterlife I was expecting at all.  And this opthamalogist kept wanting to talk to me about a "dazzle effect" of sunlight that got into my eye and wouldn't go away.  Except that turned out to be real and I have an appointment tomorrow with the eye doctor about it.  Life can be very unconvincing.

Keep me in your thoughts and I'll post more as I learn about it.