need2loose4me
Day 1, Jan 10th: Surgery took 2 hours and 50 minutes and went great. My recovery on the other hand didn't go so well. A recovery that should've taken 2 hours, mine took about 5 hours. My recovery nurse sucked. They had trouble bringing me out of the anestesia. Never having high blood pressure in my life, well guess what? that's right...my blood pressure was ranging between 173/102 to 167/96...heartrate would go from 97-117. When I finally got in to a room my floor nurse yelled at my recovery nurse and when they figured out why my vitals were all over the place, then with in a few hours my vitals went down to normal. My surgeon came in that night to see me between 7-8 and he informed me that I have sleep apnea. He found out once I went under, not a good thing! I had to be on a sleep apnea machine, when I stopped breathing it made this awful, peircing noise. That sound was sure to wake the dead!!!!! I also have it when I'm awake, when I move around, or go to roll over, or getting up, etc...Every 2 hours a nurse of some sort was coming in, and doing their nursing duties. I had a port in my stomach, which was a drain tube, the tube was stitched to my skin, and the tube was about 6" in the cavity of my stomach...sorry...I know it's gross! The drain tube was for all the liquids the surgeon put in my new stomach, while I was still in the operating room, to make sure I dont' have any leaks in my stomach
Day 2 Jan 11: Of course no sleep. Today is the day I go down at 9:00am to have a swallow test to make sure I don't have any leaks in my new stomach. If I pass this, I will start my liquid/clear fluids today that will last for the next 8 days. I feel real nauseated today. The junk you have to swallow, tasted like the cheapest "flat" liquor. It was gross. Nonetheless, I didn't throw up, all my praying helped. By 12:30pm today my surgeon comes in to let me know that I passed! WOOOHOOO!! If I didn't means 3 things, one more day in the hospital, one day delayed of my clear fluids, and possibly back to the operating room. I could barely walk, and they want you to walk as much as you can. My breast bone hurts my rib cage hurts, I sware they had to do CPR on my.
Day 3 Jan 12: WOOHOO!! I'm going home today. I feel miserable, I can hardly move around, and I feel like I could throw up. I have to drive 2 hours home and I pray that I make it! I get home and the kids are happy to see me, as me them. The drain tube bothers me, it hurts. I have to empty it 3 times a day and measure it and right it down. I wish the nausea wasn't so bad, but it's bad. I have meds to take and I don't know how I will get it down and keep it down. Later on I tried to take some liquid tylenol it took everything I have to get it down and pray over the sink it stays down. I couldn't even do flinstone vitamins. The nausea is so severe.
Day 4 Jan 13: Today I'm tired, I keep dozing off. right now my bed is the recliner, I can't lay down in the bed. I can actually feel my insides hurting. I can actually feel the routes they went inside my stomach. It's bizarre!!! I still feel sick today, real sick. Everything is still a struggle to get down. I'm still in a lot of pain. I am fighting this pain with out any pain meds. It's hard enough for me to take my prevacid and keep that down, I don't want to add anything else to the mix.
Day 5 Jan 14: Today energy level is pretty good, body wise I feel like I have been hit by a Mac truck. I'm still feeling real sick, at times I wonder if throwing up would be better, but the thing, I don't have the stomach strength to throw up. I will have to continue to fight the nausea! The weather is great and I have about 1/4 mile 3 times a day. Tonight is the first night I was able to lay down in the bed only on my left side. My drain tube is on the right. The most I can lay is 2 hours, then I hit the recliner again.
Day 6 Jan 15:
Walking is great, the weather is great, enery is great. Just wish the body was up with my energy. The nausea is still pretty bad. Since I have been home from the hospital, I have been real sensitive to smells. It's pretty bad! My body is still in a lot of pain, I'm able to lay in the bed, every 2 hours I alternate from the foot of the bed to the head of the bed. Starting on my left side, to my back with lots of pillows behind me. I'm starting to question what have I done to myself? I'd rather have my c-section with Kyndal the pain is easier.
Day 7 Jan 16: I'm back to feeling the same. I feel like I could throw up, I can't sit for more than 15 minutes, and now I can't lay in the bed. It hurts to sleep in the recliner, but that is the only place I can sleep. I wish I could sleep standing. I'm still in a lot of pain the drain tube is still in. I'm counting down in 2 days that comes out. I'm still on my liquid/clear diet, if you can read the newspaper through it then it's not aloud. The cold weather has kept me inside today, no walking, it's bitter out there!
Day 8 Jan 17: One more day! I get the stupid tube out. 2 days I will be able to start my full liquids. Today my stomach where the tube is, is killing me and it's red. But I don't feel that bad! The nausea, I guess I'm learning to live with it. Sleeping, I'm still in the recliner I'm still fighting the pain.
Day 9 Jan 18: The nausea is starting to overwhelm me. Today is my first day that I felt like crying. Today is the day the drain tube comes out. Thank God!!! Towson we go, the surgeon takes it out and it didn't hurt at all. I was nervous for nothing. My right side still hurts where the tube was and I know it will take another 1 week or so for it to feel better. By 4:15 today I started to run a fever of 102.5-103. with aches and cold chills, I felt miserable. I felt like what else is going to happen. As soon as something feels better something else goes wrong! By this point I'm real sick and in real bad shape. At 7:30pm I called my surgeon and told him about my fever, he called in an antibiotic for me, and told me to go to my local hospital tomorrow to get my urine checked and the hole where my drain tube was. I'm sick, I feel like I'm dieing can 't lay down, it hurts to sleep in the recliner, I have no idea how this is going to work. Charlie gets it and as soon as he came home, I seen I have to take 4 teaspoons, 2 times a day for 5 days...
Day 9 Jan 19: My mom takes me to the emergency room and sure enough my problem is a urinary tract infection. Thank God! My surgeon told me Thursday night that if my urine test came back fine then he wants me to come up to Greater Baltimore Medical Center. That I didn't want to do. Still can't lay in the bed, so I had to sleep in the recliner. That is getting old and uncomfortable!
Day 10 Jan 20: I can't believe it, I can actually, and finally see the light at the end of the tunnel. My nausea is getting better...WOOOOHOOOOO!!!! Moving around is getting a little better. Sleeping arrangements is still the pits, but I wont complain!!
