Openbah / Journal of a Marine Officer Candidate

Category: Marines

  • New tentative surgery date

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    My NYC surgeon’s office called me at 6PM tonight with some pretty good news. They successfully rescheduled 3 other surgeries so that I could get operated on March 4th. Just one minor issue: the surgeon is leaving for a conference in California the day after my surgery. To be honest, it doesn’t really matter to…

  • Surgery pushed back, again

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    Got a call Friday at 4PM from the surgeon’s office in NYC. I knew immediately what they were going to tell me, I didn’t even need to hear her say it. “You’re going to want to scream,” she says. I tell her she’s probably right. The doctor was looking over the upcoming surgery schedules and…

  • Giving up on sleep

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    A couple months ago I was feeling like crap every day and realized that I wasn’t sleeping very well. I was constantly being woken up by the pain in my hip. So I started taking 2 Percocets every night in an attempt to sleep better. For a while things improved and I was able to…

  • Surgery pushed back one week

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    So I just got a call from the surgeon’s office in NYC. They are pushing my surgery back a week. Apparently the surgeon called his scheduling office today and told them them to move all his appointments. That means the surgery will now be on February 26th.

  • Surgery three, one month away

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    In one month I will at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in NYC. I’m more excited than I am nervous. Two weeks ago something happened and my leg got a whole lot worse. It began hurting all the time again. I can’t go a day without taking some Motrin, and I can’t sleep much at all without…