Less than a week to go!

Mar 01, 2010

 So this time next Monday i will be out of surgery and starting my journey on the losers bench!  I am very excited!  But today feeling a little frustrated.  I had the Pre-op  class today at Dr. A's office, and although everything was very informative, I feel like this information should have been given to us much sooner than a week before the surgery.  Now, Most if it I will say, I knew, and was really no major surprise.  But, I am kind of mad because I got conflicting information from people I spoke to at the office a month ago, and what the class had to say, mainly about birth control pills.  I called and asked (knowing that birth control pills naturally give you a higher risk of forming blood clots) if I should stop taking them; I was told "No, you can continue them".  Then today, I see in our packet of information in the list of medications that need to be stopped before surgery, low and behold...Birth Control Pills.  SO I raise my hand and polietly say, I was told I could continue my birth control pills, and I get a " No, you need to come off of them and need to stay off of them for two weeks after surgery"...great.
So then today as the day is going on, I think to myself, "OK no big deal stop taking them", then it dawns on me...If I stop my birth control pills today, that means I will get my period Saturday, and how it works for me, it will be nice and heavy for monday!!! Oh yea, this is EXACTLY what I want to have to deal with while recovering from surgery...  At least I'll have pain medication to ward off the cramps.
I know, I know, this is one little tiny thing, and I will be concerned about many other things than having my period, but for god sakes, its going to make this week even worse than it already was ramping up to be when it comes to my nerves and emotions.

So, I am not a patient that has to do a liquid diet, and that is fine, but I have put myself on a kind of "what I will have to do after surgery diet"  eating soft foods (I am not going as far as to puree chicken, I just don't think that is necessary) and really sticking to liquid type foods.  I just think I need to start getting myself in the mindset.  Because Honestly if I don't do this, I might eat like a crazy person that will never be able to eat again, simply because of nerves and the stress of this last week of work.  So I figured doing this, and having something to focus on will keep me under control and on track.

One other issue I have been having (since I am ranting anyway), I cannot stand my CPAP anymore, when I first got it, I could sleep with it for 5 or so hours, lately though, I sleep for about an hour with it, then I rip it off my face and shut it off.  I swear I cannot breathe with the damn thing on, causing me not to be able to sleep.  But I have to bring this with me to surgery, and I guess I will have to wear it while sleeping in the hospital and I am scared i will get in trouble for taking it off in the middle of the night.  But the mask is sooooo uncomfortable, it chafes the inside of my nose, and it always all wet when I wake up, and I am grossed out by this...I don't know if its just too much humidity, sweat of snot.  Either way it is nasty!

So i think that is all for tonight...sorry not too much positivity.  But sometime you just gotta let it all out.

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