Feeling pretty human

Mar 11, 2010

So I'm 8 days out now. I wouldn't say I feel 100% yet, but I'm feeling fully functional at this point. My energy is kind of low, but that's to be expected. I remember before surgery I was wondering how this would compare to the c-sections I've had. I would say its less painful, but has about the same recovery time in terms of energy, etc.

Since I'm keeping this blog as a diary of sorts, I thought I should take some time to write about my hospital experience.

My husband could NOT take the day off of work, so I had my best friend bring me in. We went to the surgery check-in and then to the waiting room. Within 5 minutes or so, they had me back in a room. I wish I would have known they required a urine test (pregnancy)...I wouldn't have gone before I left the house. Kind of hard to rustle up more pee after you've been NPO for 8 hours!  I had a terrifying moment where I was POSITIVE I was pregnant. My dh just had a vasectomy, but we haven't had it "checked" yet. Anyway, I obviously wasn't, but I was panicked for a few minutes!

There was lots of hustle and bustle in the room for awhile. Lots of people coming in and asking you the same questions. I was pleasantly suprised to find out that they numb you before doing IVs. I had a zillion IVs, but have never been numbed before. It was wonderful! The started an IV of antibiotic and it turned out I was allergic to it! (It wasn't their fault, I had never had it before). I was covered in a rash. I (again) was panicking because I thought they'd cancel my surgery. They didn't! They just gave me something else.

Finally the anethesiologist comes in and offers me IV versed so I won't remember leaving the room. Sounded good to me! Unfortunately, they didn't give me enough. I remember going in to the OR and the anethesiologist asking if I was feeling loopy yet. I was like, "you better give me some more of the good stuff!". He topped me off and I don't remember anything past that.

I remember about 5 seconds in recovery where they asked me to point to the face on the 1-10 pain chart. I remember moaning and pointing to the 7, but I honestly don't remember the pain. Next thing I remember is being wheeled to my room and saying "ouch" as we went over the bumps. I remember seeing my friend and asking her if everything was OK. I don't remember her answering and I think I slept the next few hours.

I'll have to come back and add more to this later, my 3 year old is trying to "cwick" my mouse all over the screen!

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