yesterday, the drains from the surgery got yanked out...truly a case of go to my happy place...and yes a quick removal is better in my case cause i'm a chicken. as prescribed by the doctors' staff i took one hour pre-removal, on an empty stomach 2 vicodans, and yet it still hurt alot. i felt loopy all day, and took a long nap, today i'm slowly moving about, however, no more drains and the wounds are healing very nicely. after today, no more surgery updates, cause i'm back to normal, well as normal as i'll ever be.