3-7-2010 - I'm Home

Mar 07, 2010

The Surgery went longer than expected. The doctor had to go back and staple up some leaks. I should have been out of the OR by 12:00pm but I was in until 3:00pm. Although I don't remember any of it.

On Thursday two of the members from our local support group dropped by Melissa and Tom. Also received a call from Nicole who was sick and didn't want to make me sick. The extra support was nice. Tom encouraged me to walk as much as I could. Which I did. I found it really helped with moving the gas.

It was amazing that I had such a difficult time drinking water. If I sipped more than two ounces I felt the gas building up. I used to be able to chug 24oz bottles with no problems.

Spent Friday and Saturday mourning in the hospital. Had to do a Swallow test to make sure there was no leaks as well as a CT scan of the legs. Since I was on the table for so long the Dr. was concerned about blood clots. The CT scan and some additional blood thinners was prescribed.
 
My White Blood Cell count was a little elevated although it looks like it started to decline as of my last test on Saturday. The Dr. wants me to come back to the hospital on Sunday and have another blood work up and then come to the office on Monday to make sure there's no sign of infection. I then have a follow-up on Thursday to have the drain removed.

I did my blood work at the hospital First thing this morning. I also had a Visiting Home nurse come out to the house to review emptying the drain as well as giving myself to injections for the blood thinner.

Overall doing well.

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