Encouragement Please!!!!

Hi Everyone! I had my surgery on Friday 4/27 and it went really well and I was discharged on the Sunday. Unfortunetly, when I got home that day I started getting a fever and tylonol would not break it, I topped out at 103 with diahrea. My Doc readmitted me back into the hostpital, I went through a battery of tests, found out that when antibiotics after surgury sometimes they eat away the "good bacteria," in your colon. So I am put on Flagyl a really nasty pill that is huge that I have to take 3x/day and I was given potassium treatments becase the diarhrea was washing out all my potassium, which is needed for the heart. This was really painful, it burned to the bone. I spent Monday-Thursday in the hospital. While in the hospital I got a cold, and it really sucks to be coughing and sneezing all the time, which tugs at my incision sites. Please can someone tell me this will get better, I feel miserable and have doubts that I did the right thing. I am having a hard time figuring out when to much is to much until it comes up and then trying to get all the fluids in just makes things worse. I don't mean to whine, but this has sucked so far!

Jen, I'm sorry to hear about the complications you are having. I will be praying for you. I can not tell you what went wrong or what went right, what I can tell you is that you have people praying for you to pull through this. We all make this decision to better our lives, you are just having a setback at this time. I wish you a speedy recovery... Best Wishes...

Hi Jen, I'm sorry to hear you are having such a tough time with your recooperation. I am still a week and a half pre-op but want to tell you it will get better. I had many setbacks with a c-section when I had my daughter...blood loss, transfusions, staff infection, staple line bursting open, and 5 months of my abdomen having a hole for drainage. To be honest, I doubted whether having a baby was the best thing for me...granted your situation is a little different but the point of my post is....after being healed...I look back on it as bumpy but SO WORTH IT. I think you will look back on your situation someday and say the same thing. I'm praying for you that all will turn around soon. Take care... Jamie

Jen, please know you are in my prayers iam sorry you are haveing a hard time it sucks to wate so long for the surgury and then end up sick, I do understand how you feel asking the qu? Did you do the right thing I fealt the same way, but I dont know what kind you had done, some of them they can un do hang in there and sending you many good vvvvvvvvv

Jen, I sure hope you feel better today than yesterday. I'm praying for you. -- T.Rob

Thanks Everyone for the words of encouragement. Everyday is getting better, I can say that for a fact. The infection is gone and now just dealing with the cold, which is getting better. I have just been having one of those days when I question what the heck I did to myself. Love to you all Jen