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clevermanka) wrote2004-01-19 11:22 am
clevermanka) wrote2004-01-19 11:22 am
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Finally feeling a little more normal today.
Wednesday was a very painful day--mentally and physically. I checked in at the hospital at 8:00 and got ushered to my room. Where I sat until 10:30. A nurse eventually popped in and said the woman getting her tubal before me had some scarring and difficulties due to endometriosis and the procedure took a lot longer than expected, but I was next. Dean and Mommy got back from the airport soon after that. Around 10:45 or 11:00, we were told that there'd been an emergency with another patient and they needed my operating room. I finally got into surgery at two-freaking-o'clock. Woke up in recovery in terrible, awful pain accompanied by nausea. They got two percosets down me and I was finally able to sit up in a reclining position by 3:30. At 3:45 the nurse was shooing us out the door. Not much else happened except I was finally able to throw up around 5:00. Slept.
By mid-morning on Thursday, we decided I was not responding well to the percoset. I would feel ok except for pain until I took the pills, then three minutes after taking the pills, I had nausea and dizziness to the point where I couldn't sit up. After harassing the doctor's office for five damn hours we finally got a prescription for lortab (similar to vicodin) called in. I did ok with that until Friday, when I started breaking out in hives.
For over 48 hours, I ate nothing except 2 slices of dry toast and a bit of milk. I weighed myself Friday morning and found I gained five pounds.
The most pain I felt was on Friday night when I tried to lie down to go to bed and the referred pain, I'd been suffering since Thursday really came to the front. I couldn't lie down without shooting pain through the front of my chest and down my sides. It hurt so bad I had to be helped back up to a sitting position. We piled up a mountain of pillows and I slept pretty much sitting up for the whole night. Well, I slept for about five hours, anyway. Interesting thing about referred pain: Painkillers don't touch it, at least not for me. My incisions felt just fine, but my shoulders (mostly just the right one) hurt so bad sometimes my arm would go numb.
But Saturday I was feeling so much better that we decided to get out of the house. Mommy and I hit the clearance racks at Target and Kohl's (big scores for both of us) and 0 was very patient. We also got a free lunch at the new Longhorn Steakhouse that just opened on the south side of town. We weren't sure if they were open, but lots of cars were outside so we thought we'd check. The hostess at the door said it was actually just Friends and Family Training day, where the staff get to practice on people who already like them and the food is free. But she took pity on us (people like to do things for my parents--they're just That Kind of people) and let us eat anyway! So hurray, free lunch!!! It was the first meal I'd eaten since Tuesday night and it was absolutely wonderful. Then Saturday evening we took Mommy back to the airport, hung out with some friends for a short while in KC and then came home to my first full night of sleep since the surgery.
I got my staples out this morning and the nurse was quite pleased with how well the incisions were healing. She said people usually have some redness or swelling around the staples, but mine look great. The doctor did an amazing job and I won't have any marks or scars at all, even inside my belly button.
Still feeling good today, although the hives haven't receeded much. And I just realized it's 11:40 and I told bellanorth I'd call her at 11:30 to see if she wanted to have lunch so I should be going.
Wednesday was a very painful day--mentally and physically. I checked in at the hospital at 8:00 and got ushered to my room. Where I sat until 10:30. A nurse eventually popped in and said the woman getting her tubal before me had some scarring and difficulties due to endometriosis and the procedure took a lot longer than expected, but I was next. Dean and Mommy got back from the airport soon after that. Around 10:45 or 11:00, we were told that there'd been an emergency with another patient and they needed my operating room. I finally got into surgery at two-freaking-o'clock. Woke up in recovery in terrible, awful pain accompanied by nausea. They got two percosets down me and I was finally able to sit up in a reclining position by 3:30. At 3:45 the nurse was shooing us out the door. Not much else happened except I was finally able to throw up around 5:00. Slept.
By mid-morning on Thursday, we decided I was not responding well to the percoset. I would feel ok except for pain until I took the pills, then three minutes after taking the pills, I had nausea and dizziness to the point where I couldn't sit up. After harassing the doctor's office for five damn hours we finally got a prescription for lortab (similar to vicodin) called in. I did ok with that until Friday, when I started breaking out in hives.
For over 48 hours, I ate nothing except 2 slices of dry toast and a bit of milk. I weighed myself Friday morning and found I gained five pounds.
The most pain I felt was on Friday night when I tried to lie down to go to bed and the referred pain, I'd been suffering since Thursday really came to the front. I couldn't lie down without shooting pain through the front of my chest and down my sides. It hurt so bad I had to be helped back up to a sitting position. We piled up a mountain of pillows and I slept pretty much sitting up for the whole night. Well, I slept for about five hours, anyway. Interesting thing about referred pain: Painkillers don't touch it, at least not for me. My incisions felt just fine, but my shoulders (mostly just the right one) hurt so bad sometimes my arm would go numb.
But Saturday I was feeling so much better that we decided to get out of the house. Mommy and I hit the clearance racks at Target and Kohl's (big scores for both of us) and 0 was very patient. We also got a free lunch at the new Longhorn Steakhouse that just opened on the south side of town. We weren't sure if they were open, but lots of cars were outside so we thought we'd check. The hostess at the door said it was actually just Friends and Family Training day, where the staff get to practice on people who already like them and the food is free. But she took pity on us (people like to do things for my parents--they're just That Kind of people) and let us eat anyway! So hurray, free lunch!!! It was the first meal I'd eaten since Tuesday night and it was absolutely wonderful. Then Saturday evening we took Mommy back to the airport, hung out with some friends for a short while in KC and then came home to my first full night of sleep since the surgery.
I got my staples out this morning and the nurse was quite pleased with how well the incisions were healing. She said people usually have some redness or swelling around the staples, but mine look great. The doctor did an amazing job and I won't have any marks or scars at all, even inside my belly button.
Still feeling good today, although the hives haven't receeded much. And I just realized it's 11:40 and I told bellanorth I'd call her at 11:30 to see if she wanted to have lunch so I should be going.
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