My Journey Thus Far

Jun 21, 2012

 Well here is my story for information sake only.  I am still learning each day and meditating on all I've undertaken, but not making any judgements.
I had my surgery, VSG, on Tuesday, June 12th. I was first up on the schedule and ready to go asleep and wake up a new me.  I woke up fairly easily really feeling no sickness.  Saw the doc and he said surgery went very well and he had only make two holes!  Yippee for me!  Well, as the evening progressed I noticed I was sweating profusely and not feeling very well.  My bladder almost stopped working and my pulse rate bottomed out.  Doc ordered 3 pints of blood which helped some with my overall bad feeling.  They had to put in a catheter for my bladder.  They also put in a heart monitor because of the pulse rate. Next morning things went fairly slowly but I was high on morphine and very loopy Doc told them to take out the pain pump and I have very little memory of that day.  By day three I'm still not having much energy and my pulse is staying close to the 30's when I'm at rest and moving into 60's when I get up.  Later in the day I asked about if I should be getting my Thyroid med?  BINGO, I had been practically 3 days without and my body was wacked out.  Took about three days for it to get me more closely regulated.  Following heart scan and cathetar removal, I finally went home a week later on June 19th.

Was it a mistake on someone's part?  Possibly.  But I feel it had more to do with my being in there longer than a normal VSG patient and no one thought about the Thyroid med.  I'm not angy with anyone.  In fact, all the staff of the hospital were very caring and concerned about getting me where I needed to be. I have a LOT of fluid to lose now so I'm not watching the scale ( I lie, I am but I know why it is where it is).  I KNOW that in at least a month I'll see BIG differences.

Feeling the best today yet and have even had a cheese stick, YUM!   More to come.

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