OMG What Have I Done!?

Jan 04, 2009

OK, so surgery went well on Tuesday..I was doing great when my Dr. released me Wednesday evening...6 hours later my husband was calling my surgeon's office....3am I could not pee and I could feel how full my bladder was, it hurt!  SO we call the office and ask if we should drive back the the hospital (the one my surgery was at, which we expected) or if we could just go to the closest one just to get the catheter in and come back home??  The Dr on-call said just go to the closest hospital, no problem!  OK..We drove 15 minutes to the closest hospital, go in and I am in SEVER pain, not from my bladder alone...I kept asking the ER doctor to call my surgeon and ask him what to do...He didn't until 11am, I was there at 3am..They admitted me for having a ton of air in my intestines, that was not moving and for the pain..I was there overnight..Then the next day which is now Friday the nurse comes in and tells me they are transporting me back the the hospital I had my surgery at..I was SO upset, I though my Dr would be there to yell at me, even though we called....Horrible ride in an ambulance later, there is one of the on-call Dr.s there telling me I should have gone to that hospital, not the closest one..I told him, we did not know there was anything wrong except the bladder issue and we called and asked, well HE was the Dr who told my husband we could go the closest hospital, and then I found out my surgeon was NOT happy with him for telling me that....My surgeon came in a few minutes later with this look on his face, he was going to lecture me you could see it, I got all upset again and he softened up and made me feel a little better..They ordered a cat scan, which did not show much so I have NO idea what was gong on, but I was in so much pain and my bowels were not making any noise at all, stayed another 2 nights and just got home at 2 pm today......I am SO uncomfortable, I can not get in water or boost, I feel like it is going to come right back up, I am miserable with gas and no BM for a week now..What have I done!!  I was hoping for some time with my family before they go back to school and work tomorrow and that is not going to happen either, did not expect a 5 day hospital stay..Now I am also wondering how on earth I will be able to start school in a week!!  I REALLY hope to come back to this page in the NEAR future and say, yes it was worth it because right now I think everything sucks!!

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