Tuesday, December 28, 2010

2 steps forward 1step back

The last few days passed pretty normally just up and walking trying to Get healthy etc. On Sunday night (the26th) that was a pretty tough day. They took out my jb drain which is in your side and collects surgical fluids that was the most awful feeling oh my god i can't even explain it,and afterwards it just hurt so bad to breathe, like the wound would just open up, still feels like that to some extent. That night was a hard night. I kept feeling so much pain, I mean incredible pain. And I spiked a fever of 103. My nurse who was wonderful tried everything she could think of to get my fever down and figure out why it was happening, I got a chest xray at about 5am and many different samples were taken. I eventually slept...and slept...and slept. My surgeon came in mid morning and told me I would get to go home. I would have been dancing if I wasn't so exhausted. I kept sleeping through the afternoon and eventually around 4:30 on the 27th My mom took me to her house where they had prepared a place for my man and my puppy to stay with me while my mom and her boyfriend watch over me.

I hadn't eaten much just half a bagel w/cream cheese so the first thin I did was eat and then I promptly fell asleep again. I felt so weak and fatigued, I Wally should have listened to my body but I was just so happy to be out of the hospital. My mom tried to get me to go to bed, so did my boyfriend but I didn't want to budge, my mom took my temp and it was 102. She called my surgeon and he told us to come right back to the hospital. Ugh it's so frustrating it's like I'll never be able to leave this place. We were in the er forever. I felt so nauseous and they kept giving me meds but i threw up anyway. I had a ct scan and another round of samples.

Long story short I was readmitted turns out i have a uti which if you have a folley catheter I guess is pretty common, so thats fun. I'm on some major antibiotics and won't be here much longer but I have hit a wall. I'm going on my 20th day in this damn place. I slept maybe 2 hours last night. There's so many lights and noises and people coming in and out it's so hard to close my eyes and relax. But the good news is nothing went wrong with the surgery and I will be home very soon.

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