When you undergo massive surgery, or two massive surgeries in two days, and you are under heavy anesthesia, your hands may puff up. Seriously puff up. Actually, one nurse said if you don’t look like jiffy puff, you didn’t have heart surgery. I think jiffy puff is a marshmallow, or at least, I think she meant something marshmallow-ish.

I think Stay-Puft Marshmallow man in Ghostbusters and…yeah, that’s a bout right. So, if you’re just out of surgery on your heart (first or second round) or if you know somebody who is, don’t be thinking weight loss supplement…it’s all good.

Seriously, though, after a full week of having a loved one in the Intensive Care Unit, actually in the ICUs of two different hospitals, it is calming to know that a physical side effect like puffiness is just that – a side effect. And even if it seems a little scary and is surely uncomfortable, we can rest assured that it is normal and transitory. And if we’re not laughing about it, at least we can have a little smile.

But no s’mores. S’mores will have to come much much later.