7 weeks post op

Apr 07, 2010

Ok so I've been told I need to update. lol. Well here goes. I had my surgery on 2/16/10. To me it was weird how quickly they got me into the area before surgery and got me all hooked up to the IV and such but whatever. As I was sitting there I looked across and saw my friend Tina in the bed and we wished each other good luck. She went first. They wheeled me up to the room right outside the OR. They gave me my first shot of Lovenox. Which didn't hurt too awful bad. Then Dr. Nelson came by and talked to me and my parents and then they gave me the drugs to knock me out. Oh yeah I said by to my parents too. Then the next thing I remember is waking up in the recovery room in dire pain. Yes people it does hurt. Then they wheeled me off to my room where my parents were waiting for me. I was in so much pain I honestly didn't care who was in there. It took them forever to get me some pain meds. They told me to keep pressing the pain pump but nothing was happening. Well I found out they didn't have my info in the system so thats why it took so long to get me my meds. I asked my mom how long it actually took and she said about 20 mins but it seemed like 2 years. So I got my meds and I was happy. The nurse asked me why I wasn't using my pain pump and I said it isn't working. She didn't believe me until she checked it herself. Lovely. Any way...So my parents went home and I slept for a little while. The nurse came in and told me she was going to get me sitting up in the chair ( they are supposed to do that the first day) but she never did come back. I told the night nurse who was pretty awesome and she took care of it.
Day 2 in the hospital is still a little blurry. I can't remember if I had the blue ice test that day but it happened one of the first two days. It wasn't bad and I was glad to have something to rehydrate me. I also finally got to take a shower. YAY. The horrible thing was that I was on my period the whole time I was in there. eek. But anyway.They got me up and walking and etc and I walked and walked and did my spirometer. I had to stay in there for about four days if I remember correctly.
The first night I was home from the hospital was interesting. I couldn't really lay flat on my bed so my dad kinda rigged it with some blankets and pillows. In the middle of the night I needed to sit up and I couldn't get up on my own which sucked. lol. But anyway. No one could hear me when I asked for help so I just happened to take my cell phone to bed with me. So I called my dad on my cell to come to my room and help me up. lol.
It was really hard at first to get in all of my protein. I just tried to get in everything I could even if it wasn't enough at first. I had a hard time even bending over to tie my shoes and all the little things. I couldn't even pick up my daughter which totally sucked ass. My parents helped me quite a bit. The pain in my left side was killer too. I would recommend getting a heating pad. It was the one thing that saved me. At about a month out the pain started going away. So that was great and I could excercise a little more. I was walking every other day as the weather would allow.

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