On the flipside

Mar 02, 2013

I'm home! Unhappily so, but here I am.  My surgery was Wednesday, Feb 27 and I was released Friday, March 1.  I have quite a bit of incisional pain and general discomfort from gas.  I am not finding any relief from the Roxicet I was prescribed, nor from Lortab, dilaudid, or morphine that I had the previous days.  I'm also pretty unhappy that I have to give myself a Lovenox injection every day.  In the hospital, with skilled shot-givers, I felt nothing.  Me doing it on the other hand, and it stings like a very bad word.  I am very seriously contemplating going to the CVS minute clinic and asking the NP there to administer it for me.

I have been sipping on my bottle of water with Celebrate ENS vitamin powder, and I drank some hot chocolate protein shake.  I'm just going to concentrate on these 2 things for now before I start worrying about iron and calcium supplements.  I'm also supposed to take an antacid, which I found in capsule form and sprinkled over some yogurt, per surgeon's suggestion and BLEGH! No way.  The yogurt itself was quite good, but not with Prilosec added.

I just got myself all propped up in bed with a popsicle and I suddenly feel full and bloated. Interesting how I didn't have this feeling while I was sipping protein shake at the table.  But in this position, I am uncomfortably full.  So no popsicle for me.

Roxicet making me drowsy. Must sleep.

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