I have to do what???!!!!!

Jun 30, 2010

So the pre-op class was going along swimmingly until they came to the Lovenox injections that I will have to give myself.  Are you kidding me?  I knew just about everything that they talked about in the class already except this.  It was a complete curveball.  My face went white and I started to get sick in my stomach.  I almost started to cry too.  My mother said she can't do it, and I doubt my father will be able to do it either.  I wonder if my PCP who is a good friend of mine will do it for me.  Her office is just down the road from my house.  I wonder if she would even come by the house to give it to me.  The other thing that has me really worried is that I have to stop taking my birth control pills as of right now, and may not be able to take them again for the next 8 weeks.  The reason I am on the pill is to help with severe cramping from my period, to the point that I was in bed for days at a time and throwing up.  I don't want to have to deal with that when I am fresh out of surgery.  Also, the nurses today say that I will have to wait until the day I am released from the hospital to take my depression medications again.  I know how sick I get and the withdrawl symptoms I get when I do not take those medications.  The nurse said that Dr. Spencer will find an alternative for me to be on once I am post-op.  I was very excited to know that I have no pre-op diet to do, and no leak test after surgery.  I will get to have a private room and a PCA.  I am getting a little more emotional about the surgery because it is becoming more and more real.  I feel that I am more prepared for my surgery thatn the other two women in my class.  One really didn't seem to have done her research about the procedure, and the other has never had surgery before, which I have.  We shall see. 

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