ihaveaninnerskinny
So Far So Good!
Feb 16, 2010
Well surgery was Tuesday, February 9 at 1:00pm. I walked into the operating room and the last deep breath I took before lights out was 2:37pm.
Someone decided that because of conflicting reports in my chart, I "might" have severe sleep apnea so rather than go back to my room after recovery, I was taken to ICU for the night so they could watch me sleep. Haaaaaa right! Sleeping in ICU without the help of drugs is damn near impossible.
Because I am as stubborn as I am, I needed to pee and refused to use the bedpan. I wanted to walk to the bathroom or use the commode chair. After much debate with the nurse (of course mine was on break when I needed to go) it was decided that the chair would be used. Can't believe how she DIDN'T help me up so I struggled in my still groggy state to get out of bed and onto the chair. Relief when I got to pee... Hmmmm foot is wet? Did she not put the pee bucket in right?? Then I look down. BLOOD
Seems one of my incisions decided to open in the process of me standing up and what I thought was pee on my foot was the blood spewing out of me! Thankfully my nurse came back while this was happening. She helped me back into my bed, cleaned up the blood and redressed my incision. No more issues with it other than the lovely dinner plate sized bruise I have been left with, which is now in the yellow/brown/green ucky stage.
My doctor decided that because I was in ICU for the night and lost a very valuable day of recovery he wanted to keep me for an extra day so I was moved into a room where I would stay until I was released on good behavior on Friday morning. While in my room, I met a very nice lady from Elliot Lake, Ontario who also had the same surgery but she was staying for a few extra days because she also had a hernia fixed during her surgery.
Not too much pain while I was there. Just seemed during the wee morning hours (2-3am) I would wake up with cramps that my night nurse took care of by giving me a morphine cocktail. Since I've been home, no pain meds and no pain except when I made the mistake of drinking too fast.... OUCH! Won't be doing that again anytime soon.
While in the hospital, I managed to gain 7lbs because of the IV fluids they were giving me. Thankfully I had the heads up from my doctor before surgery or I would have freaked.
Since coming home Friday morning, I've been moving around alot... even doing some stuff I shouldn't have been (yep I swept and did some minor housework) but no major issues. I decided before my surgery, actually Tuesday, Jan. 19 when i started my Optifast pre-op diet that I would weigh myself each Tuesday and track my progress. .......
Well today is Tuesday and what a surprise........
Not only have I lost the 7lbs I gained while in the hospital but I managed to lose 2.9lbs beyond that. So 9.9 lbs since coming home and a total of 27.9 since I started my liquid diet. If this is even a small glimpse of what is to come, I'm going to be a very happy girl.
Now... My Doctor....
I changed doctors part way thru the process because my original doctors associate had a cancellation that I took.
I am now in the very capable hands of an incredibly awesome doctor. Dr. Quoc Huyhn. He doesn't appear to be very old. I would say probably mid to late 30's. I met him face to face just before my surgery when he met me in the operating room waiting area. He greeted me with a friendly smile and comforting handshake. He sat and talked with me for about 20 minutes and went over everything he was going to do and what I could expect after.
He came in to see me on Friday morning, checked on my incisions, gave me the clearance to come home and now I'm in the very capable hands of my parents who have taken to yelling at me when I'm doing something I'm not supposed too!! Funny, I never got yelled at as a child and now I get it for picking up the mop!! LOL ohhhhhhh well a few weeks of recovery and I'll be good to go.
Next step....... Follow up appointment on March 9 with the dietician and March 11 witht he doctor.
and so continues the journey to me meeting my innerskinny!!!
Yeaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Me!!!!
