Surgery went well!
Dr. Rumer says everything went perfect and I feel ok.
I checked into the hospital at 11am Tuesday and was wheeled into the OR at 12:20pm, the next thing I knew I was waking up in my room about 5:15pm. The operation took 4 hours total.
I spent Tuesday evening, Wednesday and Thursday morning in the hospital flat on my back. Dr. Rumer does not want us out of bed during the hospital stay. Dr Rumer came in to see me on Wed. morning. She removed the bandage and examined area, everything looks good. There are 2 drains in place and the catheter. She did not replace the bandage, the area is open except for the stretchy panties. Thursday morning her assistant came in and examined me and then started the discharge process.
I was impressed with the hospital up until checkout. All of the staff was friendly and attentive.
Pain control was very good, I was on morphine that was controlled by a black box, just push the button and another measure was injected into the IV. I could push the button once every 15 minutes.
Pain wasn't too bad probably about a 3 with the morphine. I think it may be more of a comfort level than pain. The packing feels HUGE, like someone stuffed a roll of TP up my butt! It's not at all comfortable.
I don't know what happened, but when discharge time came, my nurse went to arrange for a cab and transport down to the main entrance. A while later the cab driver called and asked where I was, (still in my room) then called again and said he couldn't wait any longer. Still don't know what happened to my nurse. I had to call for another. She arranged to get me downstairs and we called for another cab.
The trip from the hospital to the recovery center was about a 40 minute cab ride. I was dropped off and walked up to my room on the second floor. I was totally exhausted! One of the nurses here examined me and helped me into an adult diaper. I then crawled in to bed and slept off and on for a few hours.
I was able to walk up the stairs with no problem. I don't have any pain issues and everything appears to be healing as expected.
My Daughter arrived about 3:30, she will stay with me for the recovery time. We ordered food delivery about 6pm. I took a few bites of my sandwich and felt like I would throw up if I ate anymore. The food was good, it just didn't set very well. I'll ask the doctor about that tomorrow. I think it's probably from all the morphine in my system.
Now it's Friday morning, up at 4am, only slept about 3-4 hours last night. Was finally able to brush my teeth and clean up my face, almost feel human now.
Been passing a lot of gas this morning, hope that means my systems are coming back to life.
Will post another update later today.
