Monday, March 7, 2011

I want to go home!

Well I have had the hysterectomy.  Nothing to hard in that.  Once I found out that I was carrying the mutation the decision was pretty much made.  I just need the details for after.  What to expect.

We can start with what happens before. The day before surgery, you have to do a bowel prep.  Now this isn't that bad until the meds actually kick in and then your pissing out your arse.  And I mean literally pissing out your arse.  Start at 12 with 2 duclolax then at 3pm you add 32 oz of miralax to a 64 oz container of Gatorade..any flavor you like..as if that will help. :)  Drink 8oz glasses of this mix every 15 Min's until its gone.  Bet you can't guess what happens next?  Let me tell you.  As soon as you finish that last glass, and your stomach is blown up to look like your 6 moths pregnant, you run as fast as you can, and do not stop until you are sitting on your new best friend. Nothing to eat or drink after 12am that night...or the next morning  before surgery.  Sucks :)
I went in under general anesthesia.  A few hours later I was waking up in the post op room.  The twilight martini they give you before hand knocks me right out.

Leads to now.

Its Monday.  I want to go home.  The surgery went well. No complications.  I have been having issues with a low grade fever and my blood pressure being to low.  Was having horrible dizzy/nausea spells.  Thought it was the morphine drip.  Well no more morphine and its still here.  I wish it would go away, I really am so ready to go home.  The pain is bearable, the percocete gets me through for about 6 hrs.  But this feeling, the light headed, pukey feeling..its got to go. Blood pressure is back to normal, fever is gone and the yuck still stays with me.  If any of you have suffered a migraine..you know the way your stomach gets when you are in the light..that is where I am now, just want to keep a pillow over my head.
Oh and not sleeping.  I'm hoping that it is just because I'm here in the hospital.  But I haven't had a full night sleep since the Thursday night before surgery.  By 2am I'm wide awake :(

So there is my update for now.  I'll post again after I get home.  Surely the doctors can figure out what is going on.

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