Day 2 - surgery!

Feb 02, 2009

Rosy was right on time at 6:45, so we packed up the van and headed over.  Dr. A met us at the door and took our luggage in.  He spoke to us briefly and J had mentioned earlier that she was quite nervous, so I said to take Joyce in first and to do her surgery first, as I wasn't at all nervous.  (It was true!)  When it was my turn we briefly spoke about my health history, (nothing interesting really in mine), what to expect, that I can't cheat after surgery like I did before and then weighed me.  After that, off to my room, which was right next door to J and C.

We went together to get our chest xrays (I got to go first on that one!) which was of course quick and painless.  Then came the blood draw, ewwwww, yuck, ick, and eek - I'm needle phobic, pretty severe actually - the patient nurse actually held my arm down for the phlebotomist.  But even that wasn't too bad.  Then I just had to wait my turn for J's surgery to be done.

Once it was my turn, I scooted on to the gurney and they wheeled me to the window.  I'll post pics of that later!  But you slide through the window onto another gurney, then they start your IV and prep you for surgery.  Next thing I remember is waking up to scoot back onto my bed.

I mostly slept for the rest of the day on and off.  In between I surfed OH :)  Around 1am I disloged my IV and had to be restuck.  After the 2nd time, they called Dr. A to get permission to wait til morning, he said no.  After the 4th try they called again and he agreed to wait.  I slept pretty well the rest of the night without the IV.

Oh, how could I forget my really stupid moment?  Somehow I managed to completely forget that a) I get VERY nauseous after surgery and b) I have a SLEEVE not a STOMACH.  I asked for and got a sleeping pill and was given water to take it.  Yeah, that didn't go well.  First gulp to take pill, 2nd because I was enjoying the water.  In less than a minute it all came screaming back up.

I will admit there was some pain after but the pain killers controlled the pain quite well.  So did the nausea meds - the only time I felt nauseous was from the sleeping pill.  I found as time went on the pain meds were less and less effective, but that's to be expected.  The pain also got a lot better too.

That's it for tonight, my bed is calling me.  I'll post about the rest of my stay tomorrow!

T :)

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