2 Days POST-Op!!

Jun 13, 2010

Weird, I posted a blog from my phone yesterday, but I don't see it here!  WTH?  Anyway........I made it home!!!  They released me after a total of 35 hours from check in early friday morning.  I got home about 5:30pm yesterday.  Everything went beautifully!!  The surgeon said the surgery went exceptionally well!  I'm sore, but they have me on percocet.  It's really only my laproscopic sites that are sore.  The Dr said they were like stab wounds.  They go right through the muscle and no doubt that's what is really sore.  The morphine drip they had me until yesterday (1 day pre-op) was AWESOME!!
I'm a little out of it, so I'm not sure how this blog will turn out.  I feel like there is so much to tell, but not sure who wants to hear what.  LOL!!

So, I got to the hospital early friday morning (5:30am).  They asked a few questions, got me changed into my gown and non-slip socks.  They took some vitals and by 6:30, they were taking me to the pre-op room where I would also go right after surgery for recovery.  There, they put on my "stockings" that I would wear throughout my stay to help with blood flow to avoid blood clots.  The anethesiologist came in and we discussed what his role was. He was so nice and apparently has done 28,000 patients.  He was an older gentleman, and so nice!   He then started hooking up my IV.  Then a O.R. Nurse came in and introduced herself to me and talked to me a while then asked a few questions.  Then the surgeon came in and talked to me.  Then the anethesiologist came back with a shot that he called my "margarita".  Wow!  A few maragaritas!!  They then wheeled me into the O.R.  Wow!!  I've seen them on TV quite a few times, but never like that!  I was then given another shot that they called a "stronger margarita". 

Next thing I know, I was waking up in recovery.  My surgery lasted 1 hour and 40 mins, which is kinda short.  They the wheeled me up to my room at about 10:30.  I remember waking up in quite a bit of pain, so they "upped" my pain meds right away.

I was lucky cause I got my own room and a beautiful view of the Torrey Pines gold course!! 

My mom and my sister were there to greet me.  The nurses hooked me up to the IV with the morphine drip, put on these foot massager tyhings and an oxygen thing taped to my finger.  At this point I had a catherter and a drainage tube coming from my stomach.

Naturally, I don't remember much.  The nurses were incredible!  I got nothing to eat or drink (Um, a few ice chips snuck their way in though).  I had a few visitors and tried staying awake for them, but no luck at all.

By 7:00om, I asked to take a walk.  I had to use a walker, but managed to walk a short distance 2 times that evening!!

Yesterday was my 1 day post-op.  The pain was still there for sure, but I had my drip that I could press every 6 mins to release some morphine.  They did come in about 5:00am to take blood.  I walked about 6 times without the walker and a farther distance each time.  They took out the catheter early morning and then the drainage tube came out later.  They brought me broth, SF jello and a no calorie Powerade.  The Dr came in about 8:00am and said I would be leaving around 2:00, but then my blood work came back and I was a tiny bit low on magnesium, so they had to put me on a drip that would take a couple hours longer.  By 4:00, they started the discharge.  They gave 3 prescriptions (Percoset for pain, Colace for constipation, and Prilosec for heartburn)

My first night home was just fine.  I slept 7 hrs straight except for a couple times I woke up trying to turn over.  No problem at all.  I woke up at 6:00 this morning and took my Colace and Percocet, and washed them down with 2 very small sips of Crystal Light which gave me the worse heatrtburn ever!!  At 7:00, I had to call my surgeon to find out what I could do.  It was so bad.  He had me take a Prilosec.  It got a little better, but really didn't totally go away for a couple hours.  He said today I didn't have to force liquids, but tomorrow I would have to push them for sure and if it was still a problem, I had to go see him tomorrow.  Now I am on just water and it seems to be fine.  I did have broth and a SF popsicle and did just fine with that.

WOW!!!!  I am so drained right now from typing all of this.  And pretty sore too.  NAP TIME!! 

Hope all of you are doing well!  I will get back on later tonight if you have any questions!!

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