My poor family...The last thing we were told was the surgery is generally around 4 hours but dr mozia's so good It'll probably be more like 3 3 1/2. It lasted something like 7 1/2. I guess it took so long b/c he did the stitches by hand as opposed to using a machine. I woke up I think pretty easily and not in too much pain. My mom tried to spend the night bless her heart but it's pretty impossible to sleep around here. By about 5 am I was awake and in so much pain. I had my own pain pump but the problem was I had already been receiving so much pain medication that I had built up a pretty good tolerance so the amount I was able to pump for myself wasn't enough. It took a while but the nurses finally figured out a good cocktail that brought my pain down. It's still a pretty good and constant pain but it's sort of more like feeling sore. At first it really just felt like someone kicked me a bunch of times in my uterus ;).
I have so many cords and drains cOming out of me! I've got my picc line in my right upper arm that has my tpn (nutrition) as well as my saline solution and pain meds. I've got my ostemy bag which so far has been drained for me, but I will be taught how to do it myself in the next few days. I've got a tube coming out of my nose that drains the bile from my belly, it basically keeps me from vomiting, it's Pretty gross to look at though, just this green liquid hanging out in front of my face lol. I have to wear these legging type things that inflate and deflate to keep the blood flowing in my legs. I don't mind these so much b/c it almost feels like a massage. I'm on oxygen b/c of the amount of painkillers I'm on the want to keep me breathing :) I also wear a thing on my index finger that measures how many beats per minute and how much oxygen is in my blood. I have a drain coming out of the left side of belly to drain any surgical fluids and an iv in my left hand that is for my antibiotics. Phew!
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