Kokonut
I am sleeved...what a ride!
Dec 14, 2010
So you read it. I am sleeved. It had been a bit a an interesting ride but none the less here I am. I tried to write about this last week , but somehow my post went missing and in my drug induced haze I didn't even notice until today. GRRRR!So here is how it all went down for me. Monday November 29th I got up at 7am took a shower and braided my hair. No deodorant or hair products allowed surgery day. EW! Anyways, got the baby off to school and my oldest kid got the two middle ones off to school since we had to be at the hospital for 9am. Got there, hubby waited with me until they took me back to get nekkid and iv'd. I let him get on with his day since he A: doesn't like hospitals B: was going to be working shorter days while i was in hospital right before Christmas(can we say broke?) and C: People go to Mexico alone..at least we were in the same damn city..LOL
The lady who got me all set up was very sweet and even directed me away from the magazines in my room, since they were all geared to food..LOL So once I was in my awesome hospital bed/gurney, I grabbed my book. A nice light easy read. It's called Shiver. About werewolves..nice story. Moving on, at about 10:45 the anesthesiologist came to meet me and ran through my info and promised to not chip my teeth...UGH!..LOL Not funny. He said in 20yrs I haven't chipped any teeth...other than a bridge I'd like to forget! LOL poor guy! The nurse came put in my IV and then a surgical nurse came to grab me and wheel me down a freeeeeeeezing hallway to my operating room. There I got to see my surgeons, several nurses and of course Mr. anesthesia. They had me slide over on the the table and strapped my legs down and put a nice warm blanket on me. Strapped my arms on the boards and gave me straight oxygen to breathe through a mask. Then they injected the good stuff into my veins....that's all she wrote people. I woke up in recovery, with a nice nurse telling me to cough out my breathing tube. VOILA TINY TUMMY!
I got up to my room and slept and slept. I was pretty out of it and waiting for my family to show up. I hit my morphine pump and went back to sleep..A LOT!. I was feeling ok. Kids and hubby came after their supper. I had no roomie that night so the health care aid and a nurse came in about 11pm, gave me a rub down with these awesome warm wipes. Changed my gown and got me up to pee. Oh man was I dizzy. I went to the potty and sat down, did all my business and..whoa..man am I dizzy. I'm gonna pass out..am I?..no..yes...Ohh yes. Ok maybe not, I'm gonna sit here for a minute and see....and KERPLUNK! I fell right off the toilet!!! Onto the floor, smacked my neck and back into the wall behind me..OW! Scared the crap out of the nurse and health care aid. They had to run and get a different guy cuz, well I am a big girl..LOL and he was a bit on the older side..I might have broken him. I shuffled back to bed and they said, NO MORE GETTING UP MISSY! They let my surgeons know and slapped the constant BP cuff on me and took my heart rate every hour all night. IT WAS HIGH!
So in the AM after a crappy night, the surgeons both come back and say, we have a problem. Your heart rate is pretty elevated and that indicates either a bleed or a leak. We have to go back in. OK!..I really didn't a rat's ass at that point. I just knew I felt like crap and wanted to feel better. So around 11 am again..back I go down the elevator to the first floor, with a germy porter..EWWW! He was sneezing all over the place and generally grossing me right out.
I got back to the OR and saw the surgeons again.. lather, rinse, repeat..same experience as before..no hot anesthesiologist though..LOL Darn you Bren..you are lucky! Back up to my room, this time with a catheter..which I requested. I was NOT interested in going to the toilet thank you very much! I had a roomie then, she had a breast reduction. She did well and was gone home the next day. I hit that pain pump and SLEPT A LOT MORE! Family came to see me, all 4 kids..that was nice. :) I love them!
I rested pretty hard core until Wednesday, when they did a leak test on me..ugh. That tasted like SHITE!!..And since I had the second surgery I got a drain too..I hate that thing..really. It sucked..probably the worst part for me, but I digress. Moving around on the x-ray table was very tough, I was super sore and did the best I could. It seemed like it was all good so they let me go back up to my room. They hooked me back up to my best friend Morphine and I slept some more. I got a new roomie that afternoon. She was SUPER awesome! A sweet British lady. I woke up to her family all talking to her and realized..oh sweet they are black..well so am I. It was heartwarming to hear their expressions and comments..LOL Like home for me!..sorta..anyways she was great! Told her when I left that I would pray for her, her surgery was exploratory and they didn't know what they were going to do. :(
Thursday they took my catheter out and let me get up and start walking around. I went for a short walk with my kids when they came that evening to visit. It took a lot out of me. Each time it did get easier though..I also got to go pee on my own..WHOO HOOO! What a treat! And I got my period..right on time of course. Thankfully with all the blood loss from the surgeries, it was light and caused no cramping as it usually does.
So all in all...2 surgeries, catheter, fell off toilet, got period..and got a BLOOD TRANSFUSION too. I need to take iron 3 times a day..for a month. That isn't going well since I still have to drink and eat..so my whole day is a bit cluttered and over planned. I am pain free now, have been off the meds for a few days now. It was only Tylenol anyways. Sometime with a T3 if I was extra sore. I also have to take Colace..which tastes like ASS..well not really, but still sucky. I get my vits in and am doing my very best at getting my water and protein in, but I am still falling pretty short there.
I am 2 weeks out and I would do this again..just not twice in a row please..UGH! I am doing well, made dinner tonight, cleaned the kitchen last night, ran the dishwasher after I filled it. Did laundry yesterday too..I do need a lot more sleep though. I decided I am going to give myself a solid 6 weeks, like after I have a baby to get back on my feet. Especially since the blood loss is really kicking my butt right now. I am just going to keep plugging away and do my best!
So yeah..might not have started in the best way...but I know it's getting better and better each day. I am on my way to better health!
YAY!
I'm sure I forgot stuff that is important. I am really ticked because I worte this all out last week, but somehow it didn't load..grrr! I can tell you it was way funnier than what I wrote here today simply because of the T3's..LMAO!
