Claws253
I DID IT!!!!
Dec 25, 2008
Well, I am just now getting to post. I am doing really good. I will start from the beginning. We went up to Charleston on Wednesday night. I really had no anxieties at all. I was more happy and excited than anything. The motel was across the street from the hospital, so it was really convenient. As we got there and I saw the hospital......I realized...."This is it, it is REALLY happening!!". It was a real eye opener for me. I still was not scared. I did not sleep a full hour the entire night. I just tossed and turned. I had to be there at 6:30. When we got there they took me straight back. They made Jake and mom stay in the waiting room. They just got me in my gown and put my clothes in a bag and asked alot of questions. There was this one old (and I mean she was old), LPN that said something really out of the way. She was the one giving me my gown and bag for clothes. She asked what kind of surgery they where doing for me today. I told her Gastric By-Pass. She said....."Well, I GUESS that is a good thing. You think so huh?" I about died!!!! I didn't even answer her. I mean you don't say that!!! Anyway, then Jake and mom came back. We waited about 30 more mins then the guy came and said we were ready to go. I was laying in the bed, of course. Well we get to the next floor and this guy says....."OK, this is as far as you guys can go." I thought my husband was going to punch him. He never said a word.....I just know him. It was so sudden and quick! I wish I could have stayed with them longer. Anytime before when I have had surgery my family was always with me till they took me into the OR. Well I then go into this room with all these other people. They had the curtains dividing us all. This is where I got my IV in. They did not sedate me here. I waited about an hour. The little nurse anesthetics said she would be at my head the entire time. Then they said after about an hour...."OK..here we go." They pushed me into the OR. This is where I got a little nervous. I could see EVERYTHING!! I saw a whole table the size of my couch of tools!! There was about 7 people working on me at once. One was strapping my legs down, two were putting my arms on board like things, and one was putting the oxygen mask on me. Then I heard...." This is a little something to calm you."
I mean...now?!?!?!? Anyway...that's all I remember. I remember waking up to hearing stuff clanging around. I remember saying I was hurting or something, and a nurse saying...."Why sure honey, you just got out of surgery." I also remember saying I was scared. And she asked me what I was scared of? So comforting. I never had really any pain from the surgery itself, just the gas! I was in the hospital for 6 days. I had a lot of bloating. They were wanting me to drink, and I thought I was taking sips.....I was taking sips like BEFORE surgery! It is alot different after words!! Anyway, after I learned to sip...it got better. I was just so bloated and mixed with taking to big of sips....I was a mess. My heart rate was high as well, so that was another thing. One big help was my PM nurse had RNY two years ago. He REALLY helped! If it wasn't for him....I would still not know what a sip is! He got my cup and said this should be about 5-6 sips...HELLO!!!!!! I was "sipping" it in 3. So, that was my problem. I hate this drain. I get it out Monday. Thank God. I have never one time said I regret this. Even in the hospital. I know this is going to be a wonderful, wonderful thing. I am going to go try to post some pictures from the hospital.
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About Me
Princeton, WV
Location
54.1
BMI
Surgery
12/18/2008
Surgery Date
Jul 12, 2008
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