{"id":5379,"date":"2025-07-19T11:45:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T09:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/?p=5379"},"modified":"2025-07-19T11:45:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T09:45:16","slug":"the-current-thing-post-surgery-short-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/19\/the-current-thing-post-surgery-short-report\/","title":{"rendered":"The Current Thing\u2122 Post-Surgery Short Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sorry for the delay in filing this report; I&#8217;ve been kind of tired.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"578\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/CurrentThing_Room.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/CurrentThing_Room.jpg 578w, https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/CurrentThing_Room-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/CurrentThing_Room-116x150.jpg 116w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 578px) 100vw, 578px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Everything went according to plan on <a href=\"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/14\/the-current-thing-pre-surgery-faq\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Wednesday\">Wednesday<\/a>&#8211;I had to lie in a hallway all hopped-up on feel-good pills for about an hour, but a crazy Ami laughing and waving at everyone who walks by like a toddler in a supermarket cart was Not My Problem. *grin* Anyway, no complications, no surprises.  I was released the next day.  I spent Thursday and Friday napping, and today (Saturday) I&#8217;m just hanging out.  <br><br>My next appointment is Tuesday, July 22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FYI, there were no private rooms, no custom meals, no meals on demand&#8211;everyone gets their bread and  cold cuts at the same time&#8211;no towels, no soap, and if you want television or internet you pay the front desk for it.  (I had downloaded a bunch of movies, because I refuse to pay for television and internet, and didn&#8217;t watch any of them because I couldn&#8217;t keep my eyes open.)<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"434\" src=\"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/CurrentThing_Supper.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/CurrentThing_Supper.jpg 750w, https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/CurrentThing_Supper-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/CurrentThing_Supper-150x87.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>This is a double-portion of supper; there was a mistake in the kitchen.<br>I was hungry, though, and ate the whole thing.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>There was also no air-conditioning, as Germans believe it is &#8220;unhealthy&#8221; to sleep comfortably instead of lying in a pool of your own sweat all night.  It could have been really awful, but I got lucky and 1) the weather was cool and rainy and 2) the woman I was sharing the room with enjoyed the fresh air (many Germans believe that a breeze coming through an open window will make them sick).  We left the window open all night. I enjoyed the view.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"516\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/CurrentThing_View.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/CurrentThing_View.jpg 516w, https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/CurrentThing_View-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/CurrentThing_View-103x150.jpg 103w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>I may also have mooned the entire city, because when am I going to get a chance like that again?<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Could be some more stories later, but it&#8217;s time for my next nap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everything is fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-c-thing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5379"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5385,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5379\/revisions\/5385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}