Share Your Funniest Post-Op Moment

I was 4 days out of surgery and very sore and still on the Roxicet that was prescribed. My mom had stayed the night with me to watch after me. But I was so itchy from the meds i couldnt sleep so i snuck out of bed and was looking for benadryl to take because i couldnt stop itching. My mom went crazy on and start screaming because she said i was going to OD on meds. I immediatly start crying because i couldnt stand the itching. My mom just start laughing and called the pharmicist.

I am10 months out and ran into someone that I have not seen in a while at the grocery store the other day. Per my usual character, I stopped and started talking to her. She graciously accepted my conversation and we talked for a good 15 or 20 minutes before we went out separate ways saying we would get together soon. Two days later, she called me laughing and told me that when I stopped her in the grocery store, she did not realize who I was until she got home and talked to her daughter and then it clicked! She apologized profusely for not recognizing me as I looked so different post-surgery! I laughed and laughed and told her it was okay and not to feel bad at all!

 

A second funny moment happened the other night at my son's varsity football game. I had my hair pulled up and as my husband and I were paying to get into the football game, the lady at the ticket booth stopped and looked at me for a long pause. She laughed and apologized and said she did not know if I was an adult or one of the students and what rate to charge me and it took her  while to realize I was an adult! That made me feel great considering I am going to be 40 in a few days and I have never looked that young before!

I kept nicking my shin when shaving.  I was so used to pushing hard with the razor on the fat legs that when the fat was gone the pressure was too much.  I had to learn to shave my legs differently.  It took awhile.  When My sister came over I had a leg full of tissue dots.

Another time I was a meeting with my husband and an older lady friend, who hadn't see me since surgery, came up to us and told us that when she saw me walk in with him she was already to start gossiping about him being with a new girlfriend, then she realized it was me.

My 7yr. old son and I were visiting my mom. I was fixing him some milk when he noticed a Christmas piture of me, his dad, and himself on the frig that had been taken the year before my surgery. He said "who's that with daddy?" I chuckled and said "that's your mama." He looked me straight in the eye and said "I'm going to ask my maw-maw she will tell me the truth!" I listen at the doorway as he proceded to ask my mom the same question. When she replied as I did.. "that's your mama," he got very quiet and whispered "does my daddy know?" Everytime go see that picture on the frig I laugh out loud!

 It was the next day after surgery and I was walking and the hospitial is built to where you can walk  around the hall in a circle and I would almost get to my room and stand there and couldn't remember what my room number was so I would have to ask the nurses at  the desk. They didn't say much and was very kind. Then a new nurse came my secound day and her and I chattted and got along really well. I was so stinking high on morphine that she had turned her back and was talking to me and I started talking to her about sometthing way off in left field and she turned around and looked at me kind of funny and looked at her and said I am guessing that I just talked to you about something totaly different didn't I  and started laughing and she said yes. I said you all probably think I am a little off. She said I don't but nurses that keep guiding you to your room was questioning that. LOL I told them that you where fine and that it was the medication. We both laughed .

After surgery I kept telling the nurses that they needed to catch the cat in my room...they thought this was funny.

Another one is my very good friend came to see the day of surgery and we were talking and I guess I told her that she should leave because there were two of her.  I had the pain button and it was making me feel good...

 I work at my local Post Exchange ( army base equivalent of walmart and macy's having a baby). 
So the other day my pregnant friend and I are having lunch, well something i was eating was making me burp like crazy. Incedentally my friends pregnancy is making her do the same thing. When I wasnt burping she was, neither of us really thing that kinda thing is funny but something about our alternating let go's had us giggling like school girls! 

 10 weeks out of Surgery, I get home late at night from work and at 1:30 am I  was watching the Food-network (some habits die hard...LOL) when all the sudden I hear my surgeons. voice on the television...I look up and instead of seeing the Iron Chef...there is Dr. Lauter on a bariatric commercial for the hospital...all I could think of was BUSTED!...Kind of like when I got caught smoking in the girls bathroom in high school.....

My funniest post op moment was having to push my IV stand with me everywhere I went - I wasn't used to it's inability to "steer" well.  I came out of the bathroom with the contraption and knocked over my food tray of Jello.  I couldn't bend over to clean it up myself, and finally had to call in the tech for assistance.  He was kind enough to joke about it, and we made it our little "secret".  For the rest of my hospital stay, we shared the inside joke about the jello incident. 

 My funniest post-op experience was when my nurse was trying to give me a suppository.  She put it in, then said, "That's it." I said, "Um, I think you put it in the wrong place." She started laughing and said, "It wont do any good there," when she realized I was right.