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 ABOUTfeatured: 30 Best Snorkeling Blogs Fun Ways to enjoy the caribbeanOLDER POST:Mating Ocellate Swimming Crabs in CuracaoNEWER POST:Sleeping Parrotfish on a Coral Mound in CuracaoJul 14, 09 Comments Off
 Lurking Danger Good evening all, I am home and all seems to be well, surgery was a success! They asked us the day before to arrive at 6:15am to get checked in but the actual surgery would not be till 10:30? Also along with pre-surgery rules they said no food or water after midnight last night. So we got checked in right on time and then Aimee went back home to walk the dogs and eat being that nothing would happen for hours! Well to my surprise at 7:00 the nurse walks in with a small tray of food and some hot tea. I never even questioned this as I figured a hospital nurse must know what’s she’s doing even though they said no eating the night before and like Inca gobbled the food down sitting before me, yummy! Well the next few hours I just laid in bed as they put painful drops in my eyes on the hour. it felt like they were pouring jalapeño juice in there but was a liquid to help dilate the pupils for surgery. Aimee came back at around 9:30 and the first thing I said to her was, “I had breakfast”!! She said, What?? Your not supposed to eat before surgery because your going to be on general anesthesia stupid!! After that we didn’t question it again Aimee just said ok what ever they must know what their doing? So at 10:30 they came in and wheeled me out in a wheelchair and parked me in front of the surgery door where I again waited for 30 minutes. The nurse finally came out and said “are you ready” and I said “let’s go”!! As she was pushing me thru the door she asked “now you haven’t had anything to eat today right”? There was complete silence. She must have know by the color I was turning that something was wrong and again asked me the same question again! In a voice only a mouse could hear I said “Yes” with my head hung low. Upon hearing the answer she said wait here and re-parked me in my little parking space in the corner. The doctor then immediately came out and asked how this could happen and I told him the staff brought me food and I ate it, someone’s in trouble tonight! So back I went to my room where I had to again just sit there for two more hours! Finally at 1:00 they came in gave me a shot in the butt and off I went (although I don’t remember) that’s some good gas they got there! I was out cold, all I remember was being back in my bed again and Aimee saying something about she had just talked to doctor and he said everything went well! I look like Caption Jack Sparrow tonight but have no pain and never got sick at all from the anesthesia, I go back tomorrow at 2:00 to get my pirates patch removed. Many thanks to Dr. Palm and Aimee for hanging in there and driving me home, I am now on the road to better picture taking!
This is a photo I took on last night’s dive at Pier Baai. I watched as this long spotted moray eel slowly slithered in and out of the gorgonians hunting for un-suspecting prey. I thought this sleeping parrotfish was a goner for sure and as you can see I was already for some action! I don’t think the eel could see him laying there but maybe he smelled him? The eel just bumped into the side of the fish which scared him off but there was no attack, could be that the eel knew the fish was too big or maybe parrotfish wasn’t on the menu this night. After the parrotfish swam off to rest in a new location just a few feet away the eel did catch a smaller fish in a cave and choked it down, I think it was a brown chromis?
Off to bed, this was a hard e-mail to write with only one eye! Bye now, Barry
14-07-2009
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