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To be totally honest I wish I hadn't done it. I hope that doesn't scare anybody who is "in waiting".. I remember how I hated that feeling of having it hang over me. But, if I could turn back time, I would say forget it. My husband constantly reminds me that I didn't have a choice...
Two weeks ago I went to the hospital at 6AM - scared, trying not to cry... My husband was allowed to stay with me for a while, and when he had to leave they wheeled me into another room and gave me something that put me out in just a minute or two. The next thing I remember is waking up and being amazed at how much it hurt. I just kept saying "oh, Lord, this hurts so much" over and over.
The first day I mostly slept and woke to ask for more pain meds (for some reason, they did not have them on a regular schedule, I had to keep track of when the four hours was up and then ask for more, which sometimes took another hour to hour and a half for them to come up from the pharmacy). I also had to ask every four hours for nausea meds. I started on morphine which made me very nauseous. I don't remember clearly what the next med was, but I had a terrible itching reaction to it, so they gave me Benadryl and changed it to Dilaudin - which worked wonderfully. The third day was pretty good, the combination of Dilaudin and the third anti-nausea drug they tried was making me feel almost human again. However, even though the Dr. said how great it was that we finally found the right combination of meds, by that night I was on something else, both for pain and nausea, neither of which worked very well for me. My husband asked the nurses why they had changed the meds and they said that it was so I wouldn't get too used to the others. :-(
My surgery was on Wednesday morning and I was able to go home Sunday, after much fun with fever, antibiotics, veins blowing out and both hands ending up the size of softballs from the IVs, CT scan to check for blood clots in my lungs because I was having so much trouble breathing (finally determined to be because I was severely anemic). I was so glad to be home.
I am very blessed with a totally supportive husband who won't let me push at all. I still feel really lousy, and in fact talked to my Dr. today who said it is the normal recovery process. I have trouble sleeping and will go for several days getting only a few hours per night, then crashing and sleeping round the clock. I hate feeling like this, I hate the pain that there is no real relief from and the exhaustion and feeling like a burden... and in writing this I realize how self-pitying I sound. I suppose some of it is the hormone craziness too.
I wish I had found this website before my surgery so I would have known more of what to expect.
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