Well its day 4 after my surgery. While I am still healing I am getting better. This surgery though a a bit hard on the doctors, and on my body. To give you an idea on how it went : if the Dr had known me well she would have known I am the 1% of 1% that if its going to go wrong it will. And it did. We got to the hospital at 545 on Tuesday morning, they got me to the back started my IV. Met with all the Dr's I needed to before they started. Last thing I remember is giving my hubby a kiss and being wheeled out of recovery. About 6 hours later I remember being wiggled and being told Mrs. Nesser you need to breath deeply ....Come on Mrs Nesser you can do this....This though is pretty normal for me, I suffer from Sleep Apnea when I am under general Anesthesia's. The monitor showing my oxygen level often goes under 90 % when I am coming out of any surgery. I got moved to my room and had a pain pump for me to use as needed, however each and every time I would push the button my oxygen level would drop and I would have to will myself to breath deeply. Tuesday night came and went with the nursing staff interrupting my sleep every hour to "check on me" Why does that have to include turning on some bright light to see the machines that are all back lit up?? Just saying. Wednesday morning came with the Dr coming in and asking me how I was doing. I thought I was doing good so she proceeded to tell me about my surgery. She said that almost the minute I got in the surgery room my IV blew and they quickly had to find another one in any place they could find one. ( I was well asleep by then) They begin to hook me up to the DeVinci machine and cant get through. The Dr said inside I was nothing but a wall of adhesion's. She had expected to see a few with 2 c sections, opened appendix surgery(pre orthosopic) and then gallbladder. What she found was my uterus, bladder and abdominal wall stuck together with scar tissue. She had to cut apart my bladder from my uterus and my uterus from my ab wall before it could be removed. This 3 hour procedure turned into a 5 hour procedure. Apparently the Anesthesiologist had a huge sigh of relief when it was all over with because I was having complication while under. I don't know what was happening just know he was glad it was over! She also said that after I heal from this I will have to go back into the hospital for a bladder sling since she had to detach it from everything it was touching. So another surgery in September.
After this discussion she decided to take my pain pump out so she could "adjust my oral medicine to see which one will be best for me" So pain pump out I go from a pain scale of 3 to 10 in about an hour. Telling the nurse this is NOT working I need something now. They bring in the good stuff which makes me develop the "narcotic itch" which is when randomly I start itching on my body and I HAVE to scratch it. Could be on my cheek one second, my hand the next or leg...Just random itching. I didn't care I just wanted to NOT hurt. We finally got most of the pain taken care of however my back starting hurting. Dr said its common after this surgery for backs to hurt. The Dr said she would be come back sometime Wednesday night between 5 and6p to see how I was doing. After getting started on the Vicodin Dennis and I would start our walking the halls. They wanted me walking and going potty before they would even think about me going home. I walked about 5 times through out the day and yes it took sometime but my bladder did start working. The Dr showed back up at aroun6ish and said she thought I would be good to go home. However the paperwork took them 3 hours to write up, so I finally got out around 930 and living over an hour away we had to take a break somewhere along the way. I was finally in my chair to sleep at around 1130. Wednesday night went OK, pain medicine worked OK except for my back. Thursday and Friday both went OK, back still hurt. Sat so far has been OK, no pain medicine yet except for Advil. However the back is still killing me. We even had a massage therapist come yesterday and rub on me for an hour to try to get me some relief. I am still taking it real easy, Dennis and the boys are taking great care of me. Just pray for me this recovery is going to be long and even though my body might feel better I am still pretty restricted on what I can do for 6 weeks. IF you have an extra moment and don't mind me being slow come by to visit or lets go to lunch. I cant drive but would still love to get out of the house for a bit. Just call, email or face book me.
