when you had surgery...
My son stayed with me for the first two nights. They have recliners of sorts, if your surgery is an open one, you will get the recliner. If it's done by lap, the person staying with you will most likely get the recliner. Best of luck with you and your family as you travel to your next level of life. Love Kathy
My husband stayed with me. I was in Baptist Hospital in Nashville and they have a cot in each of the rooms used for bariatric patients. It was really great to have him there, especially after they removed my catheter and I had to get up to pee. Because I still had to wear the pressure leggings, he was there to turn off the pump and remove the leggings and then put them back on after helping me back to bed.
He also fed me ice chips the first day. I wasn't awake enough to manage that on my own until the morning after surgery. Also, when the tech came to give me a bath the day after surgery, he stopped her before she could even unwrap the Dial soap. He told her Dial makes me itch and we had brought my Aveeno body wash.
Most importantly, it was very comforting to know that I had someone there *****ally knew me and would be able to speak for me if something odd started happening. When my mother was injured in a car accident a few years ago, I was there with her when she started acting really odd. I really stressed to her nurses that her behavior was totally out of the ordinary for her. It turned out she needed a blood transfusion due to blood loss from her ankle injury and the surgery to repair it. Once they got a couple of units of whole blood into her she was much more normal.
The nurses made sure my husband was comfortable too. They know that having someone there to help the patient with non-medical stuff takes some of the pressure off of them. Because I wasn't having to call for someone to help me with stuff like getting up to go the bathroom, going for a walk in the halls, etc., I feel like they were much faster to respond when I did need to call them for anything.
Good luck and we'll see you soon on the losing side.
Susan
Maria,
Before our surgeries, my daughter and I both agreed to go home and let the patient (her or myself) have sometime to recup from the surgery without having to worry about the others sleeping or eating arrangements. I was up and walking 4 hrs. after surgery and so was she..and we wanted to concentrate on that.
I have never been one th want someone with me all the time in the hospital anyway, and she had only been in to have her kids and that was 1 day each. The hospitals are very accomadating if you want company tho, so it is to each of us what we want.
Billie
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