7 Days Post Op

Mar 29, 2009

Well, I've been home for 4 days now.  I remember last week I was so pre-occupied with what I needed to get done before I left so that everything would be in order for me when I got home.  I didn't fall asleep until around 1 or 2 am.  When I finally slept I continued praying in my sleep and then it was time to get to the hospital.  I was the first to arrive for my group.  I got ID and things started rolling.  The only time I was scared was when the anesthesiologist told me she would be breathing for me.  I was concerned that I would wake up because I have had minor surgeries in past and woke up during them.  All I remember is being willed into the operating room the cocktail they gave me before I went in and the mask being put over my nose and mouth.  The next thing I know it was like 3.5 hours later and I was in recovery and they were trying to find me a room upstairs.  I was told that everything went well.  I had gas pains so bad at the hospital and at home.  I welcomed the walk because I could burp when I walked.  It's 7 days now and I still have gas but it's minor.  I really did need the pain killers for the pain in my back and the soreness of the site where the drain was. The incisions are itching so I know that means that they are healing.  I'm having some trouble with the sipping enough.  Because I'm still tired I am sleeping a lot.  I am walking at anytime just to get the walks in.  I would have to stay up all night just to get the right amount of protein in.  I don't go back to the doctor until this coming Friday.  I assume by then the incisions will be healed.  Through all the pain I'm still happy I did this. 

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