Take every 4 hours...as needed

Yep.  That is what my life has become over the past two days...  I'm living life four hours at a time.  All I can say is thank you , Jesus, for pain meds.  Surgery went great.  Hope to get good news soon that it is benign.  I don't remember anything after the anesthesiologist put a "cocktail" in my IV.  My next memory was of asking the recovery nurse how long I'd been there.  I guess the tumor was pretty big, but it wasn't very difficult to remove.  My incision starts in front of my earlobe and extends down my neck just a bit.  I am very swollen today on that side and starting to bruise.  From the front, you can see that my side sticks out freakishly.  I've now taken to calling myself "Gil" since I appear to have fish gills. :)  I've been a lazy bum.  I've slept a lot.  My mom has been a rockstar!  She's been cooking and cleaning and shopping for me.  She's even ignited the passion for cooking in Noodle.  He made her buy him his own oven mitt and begged for a cookbook of his own.  So cute!  Hubby hooked up a tv in our room so I could watch episodes of Glee when I'm awake.  Yay, Hubbs!  Other than that, my life is all about pain meds and sleep.  I just wanted to take a moment to say thank you for all of the prayers.  I have felt them.  Because of your prayers, I slept the night before surgery, went into it confident and unafraid, had a successful surgery with no nerve damage, and have had lots of love in recovery.  I am looking forward to a more boring and normal second half of 2011.  Thanks for hanging with me and for loving me through all this drama! :)  It is now 10 minutes til vicodin....and hopefully more sleep.  night all.
Love, Gil