update from Emily

Hi everyone. Just wanted to let you know what was going on.
My surgery went well and I came home Tuesday after the surgery on Monday.
Tuesday night I developed a very high fever 105.0 and I was having a hard time breathing and my abdomen was distended. George called the surgeon and he had me go back to the hospital. they thought that I may have developed a leak. I went in and they did a CT scan and found that I did not have a leak, but I did have a collapsed lung. The Surgeon said I probably picked up a virus before the surgery and that it budded after I got weak.
So I was in the hospital until Saturday afternoon. I had to be on Oxygen and have breathing treatments,  I was also given morphine every 2 hours as the pain was very intense. I don't remember a lot about it because of the morphine I am sure, but George never left my side. I have such an awesome husband.
I am doing pretty good now. I still have some pain on the left side of my Abdomen and it can be pretty intense at times. That is the biggest incision and it is pretty bruised up. I am having trouble getting all the fluid and protein requirements in too. I am working on it. But I just feel stuffed after a few sips. Not sure how much weight I have lost at this point. I may weigh tomorrow. We will see.You can tell in my face that I have lost some weight though.  I am up and about doing a lot of walking.
I got to start on soft food today. For breakfast, I had about 1/3 of a scrambled egg and for lunch I had 1 ounce of egg salad. It was so good. Never thought I would be excited about eating an egg. 
emily
 

Glad to hear you are home and doing better. Take it easy and keep on stepping and sipping. U will do fine.

LaDetra 

Thanks LaDetra. I enjoyed talking to you.
Emily

Hi Emily, I am so glad you are home and doing better now. We were sure worried. Maybe now you  can get on your feet from all this and get on the road to a healthy you!

Sherry

What a relief!!!  I was SOO worried about you!

You stay on the mend, OK?

Winne, update me....how did your surgery go? did I read you had a complication? How are things now?
Emily

I had a very large hematoma begin expanding into the space where my tummy was.  By the time we actually caught it I had lost 2 liters of blood!  I was weak and confused with lots of falling on my less-than-cushiony butt (Noassitol can be brutal).  Doctors Walton and Broussard literally picked me off the pavement, brought me into the hospital, and went to work.

Lucky me got 2 surgeries in 2 days!!  I never really hurt except when the nurses had to get blood from me.  Collapsed veins and low blood pressure are not conducive to the collection of blood!!  They tried so hard and I never complained. 

I'm doing okay now and had a checkup at Weightwise today.  My stats are returning to normal and I am feeling more normal.  Stamina isn't great but it will take about a month to replace all that blood.

I am SOO glad you are okay, though!!  I worried about you more than me while I was in the hospital!

What an ordeal you went through. I am so glad you came through it all right. You will build back up, just takes time. Maybe you should take some iron. I thought about you too while I was at the hospital. I told George I wished I had a way to check on you. sounds like we both are getting a slow start to recovery. My prayers are with you. Keep me posted. I am anxious to see your progress. I am so excited for you.
Emily

I'm so glad you are doing better.  We don't like for our peeps to have problems.  So please treat yourself with some TLC and enjoy some pampering from that hubby of yours!  Keep us posted!

Emily I am glad that you are home and please keep us posted so we know you are ok.