Day After

Yay!!  I made it I am alive!!  Yesterday morning I had to be at the hospital at 6am, which meant waking up at 5am.  The nurse wanted me to take a shower using a special soap that help cut down on infection.  So I got up and took my shower while my husband got the kids ready and we were off. Since children are not allowed into hospitals (children under 12) because of the whole swine flu thing and because we had no one to watch the kids that early in the morning, I had to check in by myself.


All that went off without a hitch, the nurses got me a bed quickly and had me changed into those hospital gowns, you know the ones that have your booty hanging out.  Then they wanted me to go pee, so I went.  I love how they make sure you are in the bootyless gown and then they want you to go prancing around the NOT private room.  Ahh well, my booty may be huge but it's cute :p  Afterward a few other nurses showed up to get my IV in and give me some good meds to help relax me.  They brought me some water and made sure I was comfy.

Shorty after that the anesthesiologist showed up to give me the good stuff to put me out.  I was saddened that he didn't look like Ricky Martin.  He was kind of a douche bag.  Dr Lee, bless his soul, he tried his best to make sure I screamed as much as possible while he forced tons of different meds into my IV.  They gave me antibiotics, pain killers, sleep inducers and something that is supped to help with nausea.  It burned like a mother fucker and the last thing I remember is screaming my head off and trying to get those fucks off of me.

The next thing I remember is waking up with the worst shoulder pain in the world.  Now mind you I have had 2 children, all those contractions and birthing pains, the pain from my toe surgery, NOTHING and I mean NOTHING was like this pain in my should.  Let me just put it this way, I woke up asking "Did you break my collar bone?!?!"  So fell asleep screaming and woke up screaming.

I was told the shoulder pain is from the gases they use to inflate your abdomen during the surgery.  Whatever it was it was hell and lasted from 11am till midnight.  No amount of narcotics helped.  Needless to say I felt like giving up and dying.

Today has been awesome though.  I have been up and around and the pain was so low that I didn't need any narcotics until 1pm.  I feel like someone punched me in the tummy but that's about it.  Of course it hurts a lot when I move but nothing like the shoulder pain from yesterday, that shit was hell.

I have a nice pic of my tummy, and I was sure you guys are dying to see!!  So here it is

 

As you can see it's not bad at all, only 5 entrance holes.  I am able to take small sips of stuff and feel great today.  Hopefully it will just get easier and easier from here on out :)  

At the moment I am laying in bed, and drugged up so if parts of this post are incoherent it's cuz I am back on the juice, and by juice I mean Tylenol 3, the good stuff lol.