I am finally home

Jan 16, 2009

was causing part of my pain. they started me on antibiotics that night, bt chose to wait til morning to take out the catheter. Once the catheter came out I felt ALOT better. Still not great, but better. Thursday evening Dr. Trieu came in to check on me again. He thought it would be a good time to remove the drain tubes since my fever had gone away.
I had no idea that removing those tubes were gonna feel that way. The first one wasn't bad. It just felt like a little snake squiggle though my tummy. I made the comment "at least I know how the next one is gonna feel". WRONG!!! He started pulling it out, got about 3 inches and it hung up on something , then he tugged and quickly pulled the rest of it out. It felt like the inside had just been turned upside down. That hurt like hell!!!
I was just glad they were out. Thursday night my nurse wanted me to  try sleeping on my side. I tried it. A couple hours of sleeping and I woke up with the most horrible pain in my left side (this is the samw side of the pain from my tube). I called the doctors off and spoke with the nurse. She said it was normal to have this kind ofpain in the side ue to the fact that I just had part of my insides rearranged. Hoepfully she is right and it will go away soon.
This morning was ok. No weird things going on.
I failed to mention I had to get a new IV of Wednesday because the one I had sprung a leak.
I am home now resting an all is good.
No additional weight lost yet. I am patient. I will give it til next week

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