"When I first got to the hospital about 5:30am I had to wait a while to get registered. I went to a room and waited again for a few hours but they did nothing to me until I got into the OR around 11. The anesthesiologist put the IV in when I was in the OR and they put the Catheter in when I was under. The OR was huge and wasn't too cold, they put nice warm blankets on me anyway. The Anesthesiologists were wonderful and the whole OR staff was wonderful. They were telling me jokes. When I woke up in the recovery room I had horrible shoulder pain from the air that goes into your body from the Lap procedure. They gave me a shot of something that settled me down a bit. Then they hooked me up to the morphine drip that I hated. It drugged me up so much that I couldn't open my eyes but still felt the pain. Needless to say I came off that the day after surgery when the nurses couldn't wake me up because I was so drugged up. I was then put on Percaset. They had to be taken crushed up and were horrible so I opted not to have any pain meds. The gas was the biggest problem. Was up walking the next day but wanted to walk the night of the surgery but the nurses wouldn't let me. I also remember that my mouth was so dry that my tounge would stick to my lips whenever I spoke. Are ice chips all day and night. The day after surgery I was up walking slowly and eating pureed foods after my leak test. I had 3 C-sections so the pain wasn't any worse then that. Went home on day 4 because I was running a fever on day 3 for some unknown reason. My mother in law stayed with me the whole hospital stay because the nurses were so busy and I wanted to make sure that they didn't forget about me. I never called them, my mother in law would get whatever I needed from the nurses station. Was glad to finally go home."
