Day after surgery

Aug 06, 2011

It's a day after surgery and I feel like train wreck.  I'm in a lot of pain and I've been dry-heaving a lot.  It's all very uncomfortable.  But let me back up a little.

I went in for surgery yesterday around 9am.  They gave me some "sweet gas" and before I knew it, I was waking up in my recovery room. Boy is that stuff a kicker!  I was in a daze for a few hours because AJ swears he held conversations with me, I don't remember them at all.  I don't even remember him being there before his own surgery.  The first thing I remember is waking up in a soiled bed, needing to go to the bathroom.  After accomplishing that, I basically slept for the greater portion of the day.

Anesthesia must be a pretty powerful drug because when AJ came in, he was impossible to turn over on his back and he kept knocking his IV out.  LOL. He doesn't remember any of that.

At about 7pm we started getting up and taking rounds around the hospital wing.  At 9ish we went to bed.  I woke up about every hour when someone came to inject more meds/change IVs, but other than that I slept decently.

At 9am today, we started our half-hourly walks and at about 11 our IVs were taken out and were were giving ice chips to suck on. At first this went well.  But by 2pm I was feeling "full" and stopped eating. But that didn't prevent the wretched dry heaving that ensued around 3-4pm.  It hurt so much I though I popped a few staples.  I was so nervous. 

I was not feeling up to it, so I took a nap.  Then at 7:30pm I got up and decided,despite pain, that I should get a few more laps around the hospital in.  However, halfway through that, I stated dry-heaving again.  This time I barely made it back to the room before throwing up some bloody phlegm.  Ow!  Think that was that, I tried walking again.  This time I didn't even make it back to my room before things came up into my hand and also out into my undies (TMI, sorry),  I sat crying on the toilet bowl.    Then I got into bed again.

The surgeon came around at 8pm, assuring me that many people vomit, and that they never burst their staples by doing so.  I gave me another does of nausea and pain killers, and he said he's set me up with sedatives to sleep at 9 and also an IV drip to prevent dehydration.  He thinks I'll feel better in the morning.

Well, it's just about 9pm here, so I should try to get one more walk in before I sleep.  Hope I'll feel better for discharge tomorrow.

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