Cedars Sinai is a really nice hospital (although thankfully I have nothing to compare it to), I got my own private room and all the nurses were really patient and helpful. The food was pretty good and my parents loved the cafeteria. Even so, 24 hours of bed rest is not much fun and neither is using the bedpan and as relatively good as the experience was it's not something I'd ever hope to repeat again. Definitely the most disconcerting part of the whole ordeal was the tube inserted into my wrist "in case of emergency" (I was actually glad when it was actually used to give me some saline solution when my blood pressure dropped a bit so it wasn't inserted for nothing at all). Having a tube in your wrist for over 24 hours is very strange, even more strange than the two needle pokes into my back to remove little pieces of my kidney.

Anyway, I seem to be recovering even though its a bit more sore and tender than my doctor had hoped it would be. I'll most likely be heading back to work tomorrow unless I wake up feeling really poopy. Sigh. Back to rowing with the rest of the slaves. Definitely happy that things went relatively well though, I'm sure all the prayers and thoughts helped!