Surgery and 5 days later

Dec 08, 2010

 Surgery went well, was a total of 6 1/2 hours until i got to my room.  When I woke up I had just a horrible pain in my chest I thought I was having a heart attack and I could hear this voice.  Susanne, rate your pain 1 - 10 - I told her 11 and I have a high pain tolerance.  I kept hearing her voice telling me to breathe deeper - apparently I'm a shallow breather.  She had to give me 2 more shots of morphine until the pain subsided enough.  Once I was in my room I was only allowed water and chicken broth and they wouldn't let me out of bed.  Next day i got up though.  and to go pee.  Saturday's lunch included  lemon yellow - I took one cube and brought it up.  Nurse insisted on giving me gravol drip and it knocked me out for 3 hours.  I was pretty annoyed cause my family had just gotten there.  Then Sunday for lunch it was creme of cauliflower soup, which normally I like, but I took one sip and seconds later thru up again.  I had the same nurse and this time I wouldn't let her give me the gravol - I was fine in a few minutes.  That soup was horrible.  Have my tastes changed already?  I was supposed to go home sunday but my potassium levels were too low and on saturday they started giving me supplements.  I went home Monday, and hubby had to drive thru that snow storm but we stayed in the city and hit the 401 at yonge.  so it was ok going east.  

It was so good to get into my own bed.  I didn't sleep so well the first night I was up every 2 hours, but the next night was good.  I'm going to the doctor tomorrow.  I might go back to work next week - they keep emailing me for help so I might as well be there.

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