John Keegan's The FACE of BATTLE
Posted on 12/06/2016 6:28:58 PM PST by Veggie Todd
After surgery, I'll be in the hospital for about five days. Not sure how much lucid time I'll have, but I want to take a good book. I like Nonfiction, History, Autobiographies, and of course, America.
If you’re interested in politics:
Scorched Earth by Michael Savage
By the People by Charles Murray
Good non-political non-fiction
Dave Ramsey’s Entreleadership (entrepreneur leadership)
Extreme Leadership (about the Seals and applying their lessons to life)
Retire Inspired by Chris Hogan
The Millionaire Next Door
How to Fail at Almost Anything by Scott Adams
Decent recent scifi
Discovery by Karina Fabian, an order of rescue nuns in space, some end up on a ship en route to study a likely dead alien space ship
God And Churchill
Enhanced Interrogation by James Mitchell.
Good luck on your surgery and recovery
The Skystone by Jack Whyte. Phenomenal weaving of fact and fiction to create the best alternate telling of the Arthur myth. Starts w/Romans in England at the fall of the Roman Empire. 7 or 8 books in the series. I re read it frequently.
The Shack, by Paul Young, originally edited & published by my good friend, author Wayne Jacobsen along with Brad Cummings.
He made a good Scrooge, too!
My typical night in the hospital (single room) with continuous bladder irrigation and occasional clothing requiring manual removal with a plunger.
every 2 hours, manual blood pressure, temperature.
2 AM
Replace one of two saline irrigation bottle as empty, each one every 2.5 hours.
Empty irrigation drain bag, every 45 minutes
Loud talking in hallway, every 30 minutes
Loud talking from nurses station, depending who comes in, aye last every 45 minutes.
Sorry, this is the only time we can do your chest X-ray 4:05.
Heels clanking down the hall way, twice.
sugar reading 10:30 PM
Thyroid medication 5:15 AM
Manual irrigation 1:15 and 4:20
If I close for, loud clicking upon opening, every time each of the above occurs.
Urine overflows catheter change bedding 2:30 AM
Remote slides down bed and hits me in head 3:27.
I’m sure I am missing something.
Then there were the days I was in a double room.
26 days out of 40, 4 admissions, almost killed me from lack of sleep.
Prayers for your speedy recovery!
occasional clotting
Get a Kindle Fire, load it with a couple of dozen books (a lot of World War I stuff is free since it has fallen out of copyright), so you have a variety of books and genres. Add on some game apps.
A lot easier to manage and keep up with your place than is a print book. And the variety helps if you want to shift between deep and shallow depending on your level of concentration and the impact of medication and pain.
Add a small back up battery charger ($15 or so) so you don’t have to worry about juice between having folks plug it in for you.
I wonder if there is a. Basic surgery for Dummies book?
John Keegan's The FACE of BATTLE
A 5 day read in short spurts? I like those bathroom book type readers. Quick short stories of little known information. I think it’s called “Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader.” Something like that or a collection of letters. I’ve been reading stories from soldiers in WW1. They are quick and insightful.
Why not bring a tablet or computer and read the internet??? I was stuck in the hospital for a week and would have gone insane with boredom without my laptop.
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand. One of the best books I’ve every read.
BEST. HISTORICAL. FICTION. EVER...
Agincourt, by Bernard Cornwell.
https://www.amazon.com/Agincourt-Bernard-Cornwell/dp/0061578908
I have recommended it to numerous friends, and they have all loved it.
Best of luck. Hope your procedure and hospital stay go well.
This would be a good time for an audiobook.
Any of the many biographies of George Washington:
Washington - by Douglas Southall Freeman is a good one.
Washington - The Indispensable Man - by James Thomas Flexner is wonderful.
And God bless and keep you through the surgery and the recovery!
“Sirat: Through the Fires of Hell” by Tamara Wilhite; it is conservative science fiction in the style of Heinlein but more realistic
Not ‘light reading’ at all; but a book that you can jump around in, and may become hooked on, for later reading:
Guy Murchie, ‘The Seven Mysteries of Life’:
https://www.amazon.com/Seven-Mysteries-Life-Exploration-Philosophy/dp/0395957915
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