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I got to the castle at 7:30 am. for my 9:20 TAH/BSO on Wed. the 4th. I was so nervous walking through those doors. SO nervous! I had to wait in line to be admitted, tho I had done all my pre admission stuff the week before, it went fast....way too fast. I was taken up to the room where you put on the gown, my husband felt sorry for me cuz I was actually shaking, but I felt calm too...does that make any sense? The nurses were great! Took the old vitals, chit chated some and then a nother nurse came with a gurney to take me to the OR waiting place, Mike couldn't go there with me. He looked worried as I was wheeled away down a VERY bumpy hall! I felt like a nimrod with everyone looking at me as I was going past them. I pretended to be asleep! I had a wonderful nurse in there too, she got the IV done, NO problem, NO pain! We talked about our kids and I had to go pee about 900 or so times, from nerves I'm sure. The "A" man came in and right off the bat started talking to me about a spinal....gulp!! I had thought about it, but the talk of that needle going in my back was just a tad too much, he talked to me for awhile assuring me that I wouldn't feel it and wouldn't get a headache....I decided to go for it as I have a fear of severe nausea and I thought maybe it wouldn't be so bad with a spinal and sedation. Well, I was stunned...that spinal was COMPLETELY PAINLESS!!!! I am not kidding, I felt nothing at all! I had a little dream that I was playing with some dogs in the back yard and then I was talking to my Dr. and giving her a "thumbs up" and was being taken to my room!! AMAZING!!! I lay there feeling completely comfortable, just really cozy, warm and sleepy and then my husband came in, he was mad cuz they hadn't told him I was out of recovery yet and he'd been waiting for 3 hours! It honestly felt like MINUTES had passed, certainly not hours! The first night I just slept, kind of fuzzy about that day. I will say tho that the fuzziness cleared up really quickly because of having a spinal, it just didn't seem to make me so groggy! I had a catheter, which I had dreaded as a LIW, IT IS NO BIG DEAL AT ALL Ladies! You could care less and it is such a blessing to not have to get out of bed, I really don't think that I could have anyway! The next day they brought me food, not hungry at all, but ate a piece of toast with my meds. I had asked them to please let me have Colace twice a day, they said no problem, so that was the only pill I had to take, everything else came through my IV. I only got sick one night. Now THIS was my number one fear....it did suck to throw up, but the world didn't end and I just made sure that I had a stock of the heaviest towels the hospital had stashed in the bathroom in order to roll up and use for a tummy pillow. I didn't want to try and remember my little pillow when I was just trying to get out of bed and to the bathroom! I got sick when they tried me on oral Percosett. I evidently can't handle that one. They put me on oral Darvocette and NO problems at all. They were all so wonderful to me, and yes, I took in a basket filled with the little bite sized candy bars, Werthers, Reisen, and Cream Savers. I also, even when I was pretty out of it, tried desperatly to just do the common courtesy type of things, ie...Please and thank you. I think they don't hear alot of that and I always got the nicest responses to it. I was there from Wed. morning until Saturday afternoon. They kept me an extra day because of the throw-up escapade. It was no big thing to stay an extra day, just boring. I have a Climara 0.1 patch on and it sure seems to be doing the trick. I honestly feel great!!! Yes, I'm sore, and getting out of bed is an amazing feat. I actually lay there laughing this morning cuz I could NOT get out of there!! Brother!! But I am extreamly (!!!!) grateful to God for all the prayers from all of you, my family, and church family!! There were so many things that are almost miraculous to me, like getting a private room in a hospital undergoing major renovations!! On the entire floor I was on, there were only three rooms with only one bed in them and I was in one of those!! Yippee!!! A couple of things I did that I think helped were,eating very lightly, but very healthy beginning two days before surg., doing a little Fleet enema, by myself at home, about an hour and a half before I left, taking my Colace twice a day at the castle, I also asked the nurses if the meds I was taking were constipating, and if they were I would ask if I could have something that would work as well but wouldn't plug me up, most of the time they did have an alternative med., drinking lots and lots of water, even tho I was on IV fluids, eating lightly in the castle and MOVING!!!!!! I got home yesterday afternoon and had my first BM today...no pain at all, ( know that is different for everyone!), but I think that if it hadn't been for my Hyster SISTERS, I would have had an entirely different experience. You are all just the best and most wonderful group of "girl friends"and information a scared, confused LIW could have had and I thank you for everything you all gave me.....from the bottom of my heart !! Please forgive the length of this, but I know that reading all the positive castle stories helped me so much when I was a LIW!!!! Love to you all!! Betsy
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