teyabs
11 Days out!
Jan 02, 2013
This surgery really isn't any more difficult to recover from than the C-Sections I have had...actually a little easier because this was done laparoscopically.
My diarrhea ended on Saturday which was just one week out from surgery. Yeah! I did well up until this past Sunday night. It started with some acid reflux that evening which I took a calcium antacid chewable for that and that seemed to calm everything down. The next morning (New Years Eve) I took the mups at around 4 a.m. along with a protein drink . I was fine until about 8 a.m. and the acid reflux and burning began again. I tried the same method I had done the night before but that just seemed to prolong what was to come. Up to this time I had been having 1 bowl movement a day, but this particular morning I had 4 and with each one they were getting runnier with each one. By 10 a.m. I was throwing up so hard I was peeing all over myself...even after having just gone to the bathroom. When it happened a second time and the pain was now also in the stomach just above the naval I decided I better get some medical attention. My BF drove me to the emergency room where I spent 4 hours waiting to be seen in a waiting room and in that time wet and vomited myself again. I then spent 4 more hours in the Emergency Room where they pumped me with fluids through an IV and included medicine to stop the vomiting and the reflux as I threw up again when I walked to the room they showed me into. They did a CAT Scan and it showed that there were no leaks, but there was still a lot of gas inside me. They sent me home with prescriptions for the reflux and the medicine to stop vomiting. Tuesday morning I woke with a horrible sore throat. It seems I must have picked up something from someone else waiting in the emergency waiting room. There were many in there with some really bad colds by the sound of them. I ate a little oatmeal, about an ounce, took the mups and began sucking on a cold eeze. That over the counter drug is suppose to keep colds from being as bad or lasting as long. I spent that day eating just oatmeal and taking in liquids. I was using the oatmeal to absorb some of the cold eeze so that I wouldn't be sick again as it was making me queasy without it. I spent most of the day with the burning reflux still happening, but avoided throwing up with the prescriptions I was sent home with from the hospital. When I woke this morning at 4 a.m. my throat hurt really bad and it felt like it was literally closing up. I was barely able to swallow one swig of water to take the mups. Then out of the blue around 9:30 a.m. my throat stopped hurting the swelling seemed to vanish and the reflux was missing. I feel so much better today! Since I am feeling better today, I think I will get started on my Vitamin regiment. I still have a cold as I am sneezing lots now but it seems that the cold eeze is really working and making this cold stop nearly in its tracks. I have lost 11 lbs since 5 days before surgery. Overall I am very happy, just very uncomfortable for a few days recently.
