SUZEQSEVEN
Pre- op adventures
Aug 19, 2009
Yesterday's trip to Medford went smoothly. Jon just seemed to know where he was going and seemed to feel familiar with all the crazy, rapid fire twists and turns we needed to make. The world goes by too quickly for me at my age, but Jon was just fine. He's used to driving a big Verizon truck all day and this was nothing out of the ordinary for him. The ride in and out was not stressful at all and I give Jon all the credit for that. He's such an awesome nephew. I love him to pieces. .I could not have done this without himIn the hospital, they sent me from place to place and with Jon's help, I got there without getting lost. I would probably been fine on my own, but with him there beside me, I didn't need to listen too closely to where they sent me. I had had a lot of tests done last year when I started this journey, but there were a few things they wanted to check out. I had a 1/2 hour with the pre-op nurse, some bloodwork, chest x rays, ekg, and a meeting with the anesthesiologist before I went in to see Dr Randall. He just weighed me and had me sign 3-6 consent forms. I was rather oblivious and didn't really have any questions. He told me to stop all my ibuprofen, aspirin, omega3's and wrote me a script for something better for my pain. :) I was quite surprised and pleased about that. I'm only taking 1 around 6-8PM because that's when the pain gets harder to deal with. He gave me a whole bunch of them and they are for before and post surgery. I imagine I'll need to take 2 after surgery. I know that was plenty after my c-section. I'm writing this so slowly and it's nice to be so relaxed.
This morning I woke up at the ungodly hour of 6AM in a sudden panic because I was "think-dreaming" and realized with horror that I didn't get any meds for cleaning the bowel pre-op, nor did I get any prescription antibacterial soap to use the night before the surgery. I freaked, thinking I'd have to go into Medford again .... who the hell is going to bring me in? OMG. OMG. I also realized I was awake because my blood sugar was low. That's really the only thing that wakes me up too early like that. I usually sleep till 9, 10 or 11. So I went downstairs and had a 1/2 a muffin and went directly back to bed. No one could have helped me at that time of day, so sleeping was the best way to pass the time. The muffin did it's job and I got all nice and fuzzy again and was asleep before the rest of the house was up & getting ready for work. I woke up again at 10 and had a coffee before I called the DR's office. The person who answered told me they don't do that. I didn't need to clean out the bowels ..... and I was astounded and relieved. How do they do the cutting if your bowels have stuff in them? I don't know. I'm going to get in touch with Joanne, who is the program coordinator. Right now she's on vacation so I'm a little hesitant to bother her. ... But I'm so worried I might have been given the wrong information. I just really need to make sure.. If it turns out that they were supposed to give me the "cleaner", it can still be rectified before I go into surgery next Wednesday. Just a few phone calls should be able to take care of it.
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Boston Suburb, MA
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36.2
BMI
Surgery
08/26/2009
Surgery Date
Jun 12, 2008
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