New to the losers' bench

I got home yesterday afternoon, but had to be discharged on home oxygen.  My saturation rates were in the low 80s every time they took me off the oxygen in the hospital.  My surgeon said it's fairly common in this altitude just after having surgery.  I have a home unit in my bedroom that has a 100 foot tubing, allowing me to go all over the house and a portable unit for when we go out.  I'll need it for 1-2 weeks.  Yippee....

congrats on coming home. the two wks on the oxygen will go by faster then you think. Welcome to the losers bench its a great place to be

Well, that explains it. I thought I felt someone slipping on to the bench next to me.

Glad you're home and doing well. The oxygen is no big deal and at least it's nothing more serious. I bet it feels great to be back in your own place. Plus, you won't have the nurses waking you up in the middle of the night.

Good thing you've got a long cord and portable unit so you can keep walking around.

Best of luck.

I'm not really worried about the oxygen...at least people will stop giving me dirty looks when I have to use my disabled placard, lol.  I'm supposed to be taking it easy while on the oxygen.  My 2 week post op appointment is on the 30th, I'll know more then.

Now, if my diaphragm would stop feeling like someone had sucker punched me non-stop for 2 days, I'd be even better.  Surgeon says it is normal..whew!!!

Hope you are feeling better and better each day.  After my recent plastic surgery (17 days ago), I struggled to breathe deeply for days (under anesthesia for 8 hours) with lots of coughing to open airways.  Oxygen would only have made that process easier.

The liquid phase was the hardest for me.  Once out of that phase, everything got easier and less frustrating.  I regretted the surgery during that period.  At two years post-op, I feel like a normal person with absolutely NO regrets . . other than recovering from the plastic surgery currently.

Take care!

Yeah, the liquid phase sucks ass big time!  My family is eating lots of really good stuff (that I cooked and froze) and it's killing me.  Add in a dose of PMS and it's not a pretty sight.  I am starting to feel better, not having to take nearly as much Percocet as I was when I first came home.  At first, I was on 2 percocet every 4 hours and now it's about 1 every 8 hours and weaning down. 

I have been off my lisinopril (blood pressure meds) since I left the hospital.  My blood pressure has gone back to normal....this morning it was 104/70, which was my norm before hypertension developed this year.  In the hospital it was in the 130s/80s....which is normal for me when I'm in pain!

I'm still on the oxygen and still coughing stuff up.  I hope I don't have to go to my PCP for pneumonia or bronchitis.  That would SUCK.