Hello everyone and welcome to Talk Nurdy. Today is Monday, May 2nd, 2022 and I'm the host of the show

Cara Santa Maria. How is it already May? Oh my gosh. COVID has made me very bad at

understanding time. Like my chronology is really, really screwed up and I'm having a difficult time sort of like, I don't know,

recognizing how much time has passed. I sometimes get feedback that I don't talk to you guys

enough about what's going on in my life because of course this is a show where I interview people so even though sometimes I'll interject with things that feel relevant I don't want to take too much time away from the guest and from the book that they're promoting or the really cool work that they do in the sciences.

But I thought I would give you guys an update, especially if you follow me on social media, that I recently had surgery, so you may have seen some posts I'm okay it was a

scheduled surgery so not an emergency but wow I've never had surgery before and

so I was pretty scared going in I got through it but I have to say the first couple days after we're pretty rough

I had some pretty intense anesthesia effects I'm wondering if you guys had something similar, a sore throat from, they didn't

quite intubate, but they used something slightly different than intubation that goes above

your epiglottis to hold it open. Because yes, when you're under anesthesia, they have to hold your throat open so that they can

breathe for you in case if anything bad happens also anesthesia apparently does depress your breathing

so they need to be ready for that. It's the first time I ever had an IV. It's the first time I ever had an IV.

It's the first time I was ever admitted to a hospital.

I definitely felt woozy after.

I woke up pretty quickly and was kind of with it pretty quickly

so they were able to take me out of recovery

and back to my room relatively fast.

But definitely was chomping on those ice chips, you know,

I hadn't eaten or drink or had anything to drink in hours and my mouth was quite dry but I also felt like I was going to puke so I had to take it easy the first couple days and yeah I was pretty woozy pretty out of it couldn't watch TV, it was just in and out of sleep and pretty uncomfortable.

And then slowly but surely I started to regain my strength.

So I'm recording this right now exactly a week from when I had surgery.

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