Traci and Disabled Nurse
Update on Disabled_Nurse... for her friends who are concerned........
I have been praying for her and worried all day.... I just spoke to her on the phone around 7:30pm. It was a very long process. Started at about 7am and was over about 5pm. I am soooo proud of her! She is out of surgery, recovery and in her room!! She did awesome, her throat is a little sore but her back is killing her. She is in alot of pain from staying on her back with her back problems.. She will be doing the leak test in the A.M and then she will be sent home late A.M....... Good luck Paula, I wish you the best and a quick recovery! Dawnielle
I have been praying for her and worried all day.... I just spoke to her on the phone around 7:30pm. It was a very long process. Started at about 7am and was over about 5pm. I am soooo proud of her! She is out of surgery, recovery and in her room!! She did awesome, her throat is a little sore but her back is killing her. She is in alot of pain from staying on her back with her back problems.. She will be doing the leak test in the A.M and then she will be sent home late A.M....... Good luck Paula, I wish you the best and a quick recovery! Dawnielle
Thanks for all the prayers................ the hospital was the most horrible experience i have ever had. When i go back for my 3 week check up i am going to meet with the administrator. I layed in recovery for 5 hours screaming in pain............... i have crushed vert in my back............ all they told me was press the morphine button and it would be all ok......... no did not work. I have about 5 inches of big blood and fluid filled blisters on my back that was why i was in so much pain. I am 5'1, I could barely get out of the bed, and i could not get back in the bed i had to stand on a chair to get back in bed, they did not have a chair that my fat ass could sit in in the room, they brought me this walker for a 150 pound person. They left my iv fluids stay out for hours at a time, so no pain meds, then they do the swallow test, this idiot tells me to gulp................ and i fell like i am going to die from the pain, he made me drink the whole contrast for the swallow test, and kept bumping the machine into my stomach............then the tray they send u........................OMG no sugar free nothing............ koolaid jello, boost with 54 carbs and 43 grams of sugar, tea with sugar, broth that smelled like ass. Then the nurse gave me my blood pressure meds not even taking my blood pressure................... it was 90/48.............. then they had to give me more fluids to bring it up!!!!!! Thank god my sister is a RN and raised to roof!!!! Maybe they will have eveything in order when yall gets yalls surgery. Yesterday i felt like i was dyeing.................. today I feel pretty good, just trying to sip, sip and sip. oh i have 7 tears in my stomach, where they went in..........u will only see dr bellows when u go into operating room, after that you will only talk to interns. Hope everyone else has a better experience than me!!!!
Paula I am so sorry you had such a bad experience. I am worried now about the things that happened to you. I hope they do get their act together. Were the blisters caused from being on you back so long? I am glad I will have my significant other with me when I have my surgery he will tell them off. I hope that your recovery is way better than your hospital stay. I think i will bring my own sugar free kool aid and jellow so that I will not have to eat all that carby stuff. Thank you so much for sharing your experience with us. I am sorry that you had to go thru all of that. We can now be better prepared now that you have told us. Take care of your self...Sherri