Sister, Smoking Monkey is our resident dentist, which I hope is OK that I told you. She has the same medical background that physicians do and has the added bonus of knowing how anesthesia/analgesia work, too.

Please tell your anesthesiologist about your nicotine use before he/she puts you under on Friday. My husband, who may sign on after I finish here, is an interventional cardiologist. He does procedures three days a week in which people are put under some type of anesthesia. He just said "I'd feel a hell of a lot better about her smoking a bowl of weed after she gets home from her surgery than more cigarettes." He doesn't just say that because of the everyday risks we all know about tobacco. He means so your tissues can heal, the bleeding can stop and so you don't give yourself post-op complications like deep vein thromboses.

Do check in with us when you get home on Friday!