Day 151: Surgery at the VA, a runthrough

Nice and foggy today, look at that nasty roof! Got to love the VA (even though it looks more like a prison, which I guess it sort of is.

Now that I’m somewhat out of my anesthesia sickness (seriously not fun), I figured I would give a rundown on what having surgery through the VA looks like and some of the things you have to do pre-surgery to get ready. Since I’ve never had a surgery outside of the VA, it would be interesting to see how much of this applies to other hospitals, but I suspect that the answer would be not much.

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January 17, 2020 | Categories: 365 Days of Academia - Year one | Tags: blog, daily routine, Education, life, lifestyle, military, neurology, PhD, school, surgery, veteran, veteran affairs | Leave a comment