Juan Céspedes - health 

I told my doctor yesterday (20 days after surgery) that I was beginning to feel rather well, so we decided to go back to work.

I feel about 80% recovered now, and I can do almost everything: I can drive again, I can jump, I can even run (but only a few steps)... and I can sit for a few hours and work rather comfortably.

So, I am back into the real world again...

Before the surgery, I was given a long-acting local anesthetic, which lasted about 8 hours. The main problem in the hospital after surgery was the inability to urinate; at 3am they used an urinary catheter, and that was really uncomfortable. I could not sleep at all until they removed it at 7am. But even then, I still could not urinate until 2pm, and only a few drops, and with a great pain.

On Friday, February 26th, at 3pm, I left the hospital and went home; the doctor gave me a prescription medicine for pain (paracetamol and metamizole), and recommended me frequent soaks in warm water (sitz baths) to help relieve pain.

The first week after the surgery was the most painful time of my life, especially during the first bowel movement.

Since them, I have started to feel better though. I feel about 75% recovered. I still feel a little pain and I cannot sit for long periods of time, but in a few days I will begin working again and my life will return to normality.

After several years "suffering in silence", I decided that it was time for me to solve my problems once and for all. I went to see my doctor on November 18th, 2009 asking for surgical excision, but I had to wait until today for the surgery.

The surgery begun at 19:00, it was performed with local anesthesia and lasted about 30 minutes.

I should be leaving in a few hours to Coventosa, in Cantabria, with Gabi, Rykky, Metano, Eva, Josemi, rover, and another 7 people from outside of Katiuskas.

rover said a few hours ago that he wasn't going (he said something about "family pressures" and "emotional blackmail") and, coinciding with that, I was starting to feel really bad.

Right now my head, throat and eyes are in pain and I feel very sleepy even after been in bed for 10 hours...

So, I'll have to leave Coventosa for another time :)