JessNY
Week One post op
Jan 18, 2009
Well hello to all of my OH blog readers. This past week was ummmm lets say intresting. The morning of my surgery my husband and I got up early for we had to be at the hospitial at 5:45am we got on the road on time but had to stop and get gas and get him something to eat that put us behind a few min but not to bad. We got to the hospitial went right up stairs to check in and with in mins they came to get me from the waiting room. I was feeling over whelemed didnt know if I was doing the right thing didnt know what it was going to be all about and so on and on the usal surgery feelings. Well the nurse who got me ready was so nice and helpful then the nurse who came into put my IV in couldnt my husband was getting upset cause she had the needle in my arm twisting it trying to get the vein, well to no avail it didnt work so she said they could do it down stairs. That left me and my husband in the room to just talk and for him to support me on my emotional roller coster they told us when they left it would be about a half hour or so and some one would come get us. Well there timing was WAY off in about five mins they should up to take me down to the holding area. Before we went through the doors my husband and i said an emotional good bye and he went to go wait and i was wheeled down the hall to the OR waiting area. I was the first in there and was scared and nervous emotional and more and more. The doc and nurses all came to talk to me they put my IV in and off I went. The ride to the OR was scary for me as we passed each OR room i felt my self getting more and more nervous. The team was great they tryed to talk to me and make light of things. Once on the OR table they continued to do there thing and before you knew it I woke up in the Recovery Room long enough for them to say your in Recovery do you have any pain and I dont even know if I said any thing I was out again and I woke up in my room. I opened my eyes looking at my room mate a 90 year old sick woman and said HOLLY F&#K my dad thinks that my thought was I was in the morg but who knows lol!! At this point I am so in and out of it my mom, grandmother, and husband all there and as i am opeing and closing my eyes I see them but cant focus on them or really communitcate I was so out of it. My mom asked me if i wanted to drink i told her no she asked a few times but I was so out of it i didnt realize it. I felt bad they were there and i was so out of it finally they left my cell phone and went home. That day many people came in to see me but I only remember them being there and being in and out of sleep. It was great to see the support system there for me but all I really wanted was to sleep. OF course the nurses had other plans for me LOL getting me up and walking and sip sip sip sipping. shots here medicine here I was like OMG WTF i didnt take any thing before I went in so it was all a big change to me and only being able to sip liquids and take pills not my fav. None the less when I was awake that night they had given me a new room mate a woman who had just went through the bypass as I had. I do have some problems with dry heaving and nausea but they gave me a shot and watched close. I was able to come home on Wed I was so ready to just be home and in my own bed with my husband. The car ride home was not so bad but the walk up the hill to my house was a challenge lol. It was freezing out but felt good to be home. I was thinking why in hell did I do this I should have stayed fat and just got emotionaly and down but called on some of my supports and the encourged me to get through the next few weeks and it will all be diffrent for you. Well as today is one week out and I am ready to start some foods I am nervous and excited and feel much better about the surgery. I guess I was not prepared for what was about to happen to me my friend is going in next month and she came into see me in the hospitail and i was negative toward the procedure but she didnt take it to heart and is still going. I know I would never do it again and the ppl who dont let it work the first time and want to go back again are NUTS!! Looking forward to the weight comming off !!!
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About Me
Hamilton, NY
Location
28.8
BMI
Surgery
01/12/2009
Surgery Date
Surgeon
Dec 23, 2008
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