Hi everyone!!
I know exactly how you feel!!!!My surgery was on June 1, 2009. I can tell you that waiting IS the worst part.....I was a wreck about a week before surgery. Having a supportive family or friend network really helps.
Let me tell you my experience, maybe that will help.
Pre op is really busy, getting your gown on, getting shaved, getting hooked up to monitors, and at the last minute after
comes in you start getting meds that make you very woozy!! I remember getting on the table in the operating room and then I was waking up in recovery. I was not in alot of pain because of my morphine pump, but i definately could tell that things weren't as they once were!!I remember that I kept hearing Shannon, Shannon how are you(my post op nurse...so nice) I told him that i really had to pee, he said yeah that is the cathader just relax and let it go. After about an hour I was in my room dozing in and out and pushing that morphine button .... not because I was in alot of pain, but I didn't want my pain to get away from me, if that makes since! The next morning I gave up my morphine pump because I had stopped using in and didn't really have any pain and the cathader came out
and the nurse helped me to the bathroom and guess what....my bladder still worked!!!
After potty I had to lay back down felt dizzy. But later in the day I walked around the nurses station about 4 times. The next morning I went home.
I am now a little over 7 weeks out and I never really had any pain .... some discomfort from things moving around and finding a new home but not bad.
Tips:
In the castle they gave me Senacot each day, when I got home I continued taking it so that I wouldn't get constapated...I never did!! Also, do some walking as much as you can but don't over do it, this really helped. If you feel tired take a nap, remember when you are sleeping your body is healing!!
I hope my experience has eased your mind. You will get through this, your body knows how to heal itself....just listen to it!!
Take Care and let us know how you do!!
Shannon
Little nervous
I am getting a little nervous..doing the count down now only 1 week till surgery, I'm hopeing the waiting is the worst part. This web site has helped a great deal with the unknown. Have to have a TAH because of large fibroids, inlarged uterus and just found out I have Adenomyosis, plus bad bleeding(clots) and bad cramps. I just hope this is the right desicion. Well I guess I will see you guys on the other side in a week. Take care all that r in recovery I'll be with ya on July 23rd.
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