Surgery, check!!!

Jun 23, 2011

I'm home from the hospital today and feeling soooooo happy! I don't think my surgery could have gone better, honestly! Only one thing, the nurses hitting my veins on the first try. But that's always been a problem with me! 
The day before surgery I was freaking out. I wondered how many people go this far and then just don't show up because they've lost they're courage. I almost lost mine. I did sleep really well, amazingly, woke up to my alarm Tuesday morning at 6am and took a shower. Got all ready, put on my makeup (gotta look good during surgery, hahahaha) and hubby and I were off to the hospital and got there right at 8am. Checked in, paid my co-pay, got my bling bling (bracelets) and they then took me right back to pre-op. Put on the lovely white tights and hospital gown, talked to the nurses, anesthesiologist and then my doctor came in. He's so nice, and said everyone is nervous, but he'd take good care of me and even bring me a margarita... which, of course, was in the form of a injection in my IV. That was all I remembered til I woke up and it was all over. I guess I slept most of the day. I remember waking up briefly to see my hubby sleeping in the chair, poor guy must have had a real stiff neck the next day. I was awake by afternoon, feeling no pain, maybe just a little discomfort. The nurses always came in and asked me where my pain was on a scale of 1-10 and I never said any higher than 6, but even that was probably an exageration since I figured better to over-estimate than under-estimate. LOL  By afternoon and evening I had walked up and down the halls probablly 20 times (short halls) and I was thinking... "did I reallly have this done? shouldn't I be in worse shape?" Nothing like being an optimist, huh? The second day they brought my breakfast, chicken broth, jello, hot herb tea, and a popsicle. Which they served exactly the same thing the rest of the time I was there too.  I thought I might get to go home, but the leak test wasn't planned until today so I just watched tv, walked, drank, slept. Then this morning (my 3rd day) they came in early and took me to get the xray. I drank a few sips of the yucky drink and watched it go through... all OK!!!  Before I knew it, I was in my clothes and hopping in my husbands truck. Ok, I didn't hop in, but I didn't have trouble getting in either. We stopped by and picked up my pain meds and got home at 10:30am. I haven't been hungry at all since the surgery. My stomach gurgles and makes all these noises but it's not a hunger feeling. This process of going through liquids, then soft foods, etc  I don't think will be as hard as it was drinking the protein shakes before surgery and feeling so ridiculously hungry all the time.  I feel like I already have a new body (on the inside anyway) and from here on out I am treating this body WAY better than I treated the other one!!! I'm very very thankful!!! 

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