Finally Switched and Home!!!
Most of you know that my surgery was scheduled for 1/16. It was actually postponed until 1/17 but I will explain that later. I am very happy and supper grateful to finally be switched. However my troubles did not end with being canceled for the second time, it continued and I have a minor almost welcomed complication but I'm still happy. I promise I will explain more.
Disclaimer: This post will be pretty long as this has been a very eventful week. I'm sorry in advance but sometimes others will benefit from one's recounting of an event in their life.
It starts out like this. I get to the hospital on 1/16 to report for my surgery. I get prepped, last minute tested, hydrated through an IV, speak to my whole medical team. Then hours go by and my scheduled time comes and goes. Then like 5 hours after I arrived their Dr. Crookes have his nurse come and tell me that his current surgery that was only supposed to last a couple of hours is turning into an 8 hour surgery. And.... regretfully he needs to reschedule me until the next day. The huge catch was that he said that I can go have a meal since I hadn't eaten in a week and then he would start my surgery first thing the next morning. I felt sad and disappointed but I was starving so I chose to get unhooked from all the monitors and race out of that hospital to find a worthy meal.
The next morning Dr. Crookes came in and explain his emergency and expressed how sorry and regretful he was for having me reschedule again. After all of my previous insurance troubles. But he said that he wanted try to make me happy a we bit. LOL He is Irish! He told me that I was going to be his first patient that he will perform the DS completely laporscopically so that I will have a shorter stay in the hospital.
Fast forward to after surgery. I'm in a butt load of pain and completely nauseous. They were giving me morphine and it was making my stomach convulse which caused more pain and nausea. Anyways they finally changed me to dilaudid for pain and added zofran for nausea. Everything started to seem easier. I began walking around the halls and passing gas. Great right. Yelp! Well until I had to take in fluids orally. Two tablespoons of water keep me feeling full all day. I felt like the water was sitting in my chest under my breastbone. So the doc ordered a swallow test which revealed everything was fine just super swollen. Matter of fact, my tummy was so swollen that it was only trickling fluids into my stomach and the rest was waiting in my esophagus until it had a turn to go done. Which was forever. The doc told me to continue trying my fluids so that he wouldn't have to do a scope test to nudge my tight new tummy open a bit. So he had the grand idea to try jello. WOW!! What a hit that was. The jello was a GODsend. I was able to eat most of a cup of jello in four hours. LOL sounds like forever and it felt like it too. I stayed there for 6 days and 5 nights because he was afraid to release me and I wouldn't be able to get in enough fluids. So I keep trying and I was feeling fine because I could eat jello, drink, pass gas, walk, and finally the infamous first bm. So they decided to let me go home yesterday.
Fast forward to home, I'm feeling great drinking my fluids visiting with my husband and kiddies. I'm stuffed of course because I have to drink something often to build my fluid intake. Well I started getting nauseous and having pain, my hospital is in LA and two hours away from home. By the time I got home most pharmacies were closed and the open ones did not carry my liquid forms of my medication. So I had to crush some pills that I already had and per the doctor's orders mix it with applesauce. Big mistake!!!! Period. My stomach began convulsing and I began vomiting. This carried on for an hour and there was absolutely nothing left in my poor sore and nauseous tummy. Called. Doc's office and they told me to go to ER for fluids, pain and nausea meds.
This morning I continued to struggle again with pain and nausea, all while searching for someone (pharmacy) with my Rxs available. Had to get in touch with Dr. Crookes to get two of the scripts changed. I found everything I needed finally and then I have to still crush the pain meds. It's better now because the pharmacist informed me how to go about dissolving the meds to make my own solution. It still tastes like butt but I don't vomit it. I mixed my proteins with my drinks today.
i would say I had a very rough start and this whole situation seemed like one disaster after another. I hung in there and the pay out will be very large. LMAO A large amount of weight gone of course. Anyways, any advice or comments will be appreciated because man is it pretty rough in the beginning. But I will survive and fight through. I am more than willing to answer any question or clarify anything that needs be. Thank you so much for the continued support because it is important to know that someone can help show the way or provide directions. One day I will pay it forward.
Welcome home! I'm glad everything is finally working out. Sounds like Dr C took good care of you when your body decided not to go along with the program. : )
--gina
5'1" -- HW 195/SW 187/GW 115 July 08/CW 121 Dec 2012
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DS on Aug 9, 2007 with Dr. Hazem Elariny
