As some of you know, I postponed surgery until after my meet.

I needed to have Pilonidal Excision surgery. It went down the Monday after my meet, June 15. I was told it's not a huge deal and pretty common. I didn't understand what the hell they were going to do to me!

I came too after, with pretty much no pain. Which makes sense as I was high as hell. I was told I needed to get my dressing changed once a daily until further notice.

The next day I went in to get the packing changed and got the nurses to take a picture of what I was facing. I was a little thrown off when I saw the pic:

shanes_new_butthole

 

BOOM! That is a giant gaping hole in my back. I was told it's about 6 inches long, 2 inches wide at the top and about 2 inches deep. Shit. Didn't see that one coming.

To my surprise, the first 4 days were pretty much pain free. They gave me some good drugs but I didn't need them.

Pain started to come along on Friday as the nerve endings were starting to regenerate. And, continued to be sore through the weekend. It was not that bad, so I decided I would try to go back to work on Monday (today).

Bad idea.

After a couple hours of nothing more than meetings and catching up and the goings on after being off for a week, I had this sudden rush of warmth run down my legs. Like I pissed myself, but out my butt.

I made my way right to the exit to head home. It was brought to my attention from many of my staff that it looked like I pissed my pants. Thank you everyone, I hadn't noticed.

When I got home I snapped a pic of my work shorts:

shanes_first_time

 

So, that being said. I will be taking time off from work and from training. They told me about 3 months in total. Brutal kick to the back hole after having such a great meet. Oh well, these things happen!