Andrew had carpal tunnel surgery on his left wrist this morning. I obviously know nothing about this type of surgery, my patients not being prone to repetitive stress injuries much, but I was astonished at how little time it took.
We got to the hand specialist’s office at 0700 (actually we were there at 0630 because the traffic was better than I’d expected but regardless) and we were leaving at 0800.
Everyone that we’ve talked to that has had this surgery reports that it was somewhere between fantastic and the best thing they’ve ever done. Couldn’t tell you what the long term is going to shake out like for Andrew, but right now he’s certainly feeling no pain. Looped to the gills on hydrocodone, Andrew is on his third nap of the day. And amazingly, he’s not covered in cats.

The surgeon said that Andrew should lay low for about 48 hours postop, but then he can resume normal life and normal use of the hand as tolerated so long as he doesn’t lift anything. I’ll keep him full up on hydrocodone root beer and, if not South Park then something intellectual like Bugs Bunny cartoons tomorrow, and if everything goes as planned he should be fairly mobile by Friday.