3 days till surgery
LOL Sometimes I am a little slow. I t hought you meant you'd like to hear how people's days were today. I was like, my day was boring. It rained. Then I finally figured out you must mean how surgery day was.
I had to be at the hospital at something like 7:00 in the morning and I am not a morning person but I didn't sleep much the night before anyway because I was so excited and anxious. I changed into the hospital gown and the nurse started an IV and all that stuff. I remember them taking me into the OR and it was freezing cold in there and the nurses put these heated blankets on me and it felt so good. And then I was waking up and surgery was done!
I slept a lot that day. I would wake up and go for a short walk down the hall and drink a little and go back to sleep. I had a morphine pump and could just push a button whenever I needed more and it worked very well.
Good luck on your day.
I had to be at the hospital at something like 7:00 in the morning and I am not a morning person but I didn't sleep much the night before anyway because I was so excited and anxious. I changed into the hospital gown and the nurse started an IV and all that stuff. I remember them taking me into the OR and it was freezing cold in there and the nurses put these heated blankets on me and it felt so good. And then I was waking up and surgery was done!
I slept a lot that day. I would wake up and go for a short walk down the hall and drink a little and go back to sleep. I had a morphine pump and could just push a button whenever I needed more and it worked very well.
Good luck on your day.
Kelly
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I was up at 6am. At the hospital by 7:45, in pre-op by 8:30, where my surgeon and anesthiesiologist talked to me a few minutes. Then the Anesthesia nurse put a shot into my IV said this will make you sleepy. We start down the hall to the operating room, she said is that working yet. I said NO. And thats the last thing i remember, i remember dry heaves in recovery vaguely, other than that nothing til i was in the room. With my wonderful nurse and morphine pump. Day 1 I was in and out all day, I think we walked and did the breathing machine Day 2 they took the drain tube out, and the morphine pump away. More walking and more breathing, also mooned my DR this day. But thats another story.......... Day 3 came home. Day 3 is when the soreness set in. I really have had no true pain or nausea. So far it has been a very uneventful surgery. Be prepared post op for not feeling hungry. It was the craziest thing for me and being full on half a SF popsicle. Kind of blew my mind.
You'll do great!!!!!!!!
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You'll do great!!!!!!!!
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I had to be at the hospital at 6am, went to pre-op, changed into the gown, hair net, socks, etc... they started an IV, and the anestesiologist gave me a shot on the way to the OR - I remember waking up in Recovery, and being given a pain pump, and asked questions.
At about 11pm that night, a nurse decided it would be a great idea to try to make me get out of bed. I kept telling them I had vertigo (I had this previously) and if I stood up, I would pass out. They refused to listen, and sure enough, I passed out. Needless to say, they kept me in bed until after they were able to get the vertigo under control.
Pain the second day was bad. The third day was a lot better!! I was inpatient for 4 days (went in Wednesday, came home Sunday) due to several complications - my blood sugar spiked (never had a problem before) and my blood pressure was very high as well. Combine all of that with vertigo, and I wasnt a candidate for release until Sunday afternoon!
Good luck with your surgery. Just remember, the pain is only temporary, and the results are astounding! I have lost over 7 lbs since surgery (I weighed myself the morning of surgery)!!!
At about 11pm that night, a nurse decided it would be a great idea to try to make me get out of bed. I kept telling them I had vertigo (I had this previously) and if I stood up, I would pass out. They refused to listen, and sure enough, I passed out. Needless to say, they kept me in bed until after they were able to get the vertigo under control.
Pain the second day was bad. The third day was a lot better!! I was inpatient for 4 days (went in Wednesday, came home Sunday) due to several complications - my blood sugar spiked (never had a problem before) and my blood pressure was very high as well. Combine all of that with vertigo, and I wasnt a candidate for release until Sunday afternoon!
Good luck with your surgery. Just remember, the pain is only temporary, and the results are astounding! I have lost over 7 lbs since surgery (I weighed myself the morning of surgery)!!!
My surgery wasn't until 3:30pm. I got up at 7am, did some last minute laundry, then dropped my dog off at the vet's (I was able to get friends to take care of the other two.
I packed a tiny bag: clothes to wear to & from, underwear, brush, toothbrush & paste. And my Kindle, which I never leave home without. Didn't even take a purse, just kept ID & insurance card in one pocket of my bag along with house keys.
Just before my friends were due to pick me up I took a shower with the special soap my doctor wanted me to use.
Got to the hospital a bit early & sat & read until 1:30pm when I was taken into the surgical area, where I was put into a gown and sat & read some more.
About 30 minutes before my operation the anaesthesiologist came to talk to me. He asked if I was nervous. I said not at all, why? He said that if I was, he could give me a sedative to calm me down before surgery. I told him I wasn't nervous at all but that if he thought I should have one it would be OK. HERE'S SOMETING FOR YOU TO KEEP IN MIND: he told me he'd prefer not to because he found that patients who had the sedative pre-op were a lot more groggy and had a harder time after surgery.
So they took me into the OR and I slid onto the table. The nurses, the anaesthesiologist & I joked a bit before the surgeon came in. I said "Hi, Dr. Suh, how are you doing today?" Then the needle, and the next thing I knew I was waking up in my hospital bed.
Easy peasy. The one thing that drove me crazy was that the hospital, in a drive never to mix anyone up with anyone else, made the nurses, orderlies, etc. ask me for my name and birthdate every single time they spoke to me. They might have jsut spoken to me 30 minutes before yet they still had to ask. After a while I was mightily tempted to call myself Lulu or something just for a change of pace! LOL
So that was my day of surgery.
I packed a tiny bag: clothes to wear to & from, underwear, brush, toothbrush & paste. And my Kindle, which I never leave home without. Didn't even take a purse, just kept ID & insurance card in one pocket of my bag along with house keys.
Just before my friends were due to pick me up I took a shower with the special soap my doctor wanted me to use.
Got to the hospital a bit early & sat & read until 1:30pm when I was taken into the surgical area, where I was put into a gown and sat & read some more.
About 30 minutes before my operation the anaesthesiologist came to talk to me. He asked if I was nervous. I said not at all, why? He said that if I was, he could give me a sedative to calm me down before surgery. I told him I wasn't nervous at all but that if he thought I should have one it would be OK. HERE'S SOMETING FOR YOU TO KEEP IN MIND: he told me he'd prefer not to because he found that patients who had the sedative pre-op were a lot more groggy and had a harder time after surgery.
So they took me into the OR and I slid onto the table. The nurses, the anaesthesiologist & I joked a bit before the surgeon came in. I said "Hi, Dr. Suh, how are you doing today?" Then the needle, and the next thing I knew I was waking up in my hospital bed.
Easy peasy. The one thing that drove me crazy was that the hospital, in a drive never to mix anyone up with anyone else, made the nurses, orderlies, etc. ask me for my name and birthdate every single time they spoke to me. They might have jsut spoken to me 30 minutes before yet they still had to ask. After a while I was mightily tempted to call myself Lulu or something just for a change of pace! LOL
So that was my day of surgery.
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