I am back with a bit of a vengeance because I have been away from the computer for so long and I have sooooo much to write about lol My daughter gave me a beautiful journal made out of recycled sari's and homemade paper that I have been keeping since entering the hospital so I have decided to take excerpts out of the many pages that I have written and place them here in my "catch up" entry. I figure that will be the easiest way to bring everyone up to speed. I have pics to download too lol that is if I can figure out how to get them off of my phone lol Anyway, where my journal picks up the day after surgery so maybe I should start with how the surgery went because it was way less scary than I thought it might be lol
I was on the operating table and the surgery began at 8 am, it only took 2 hours as my doc did not restructure my vascular system as I thought he was going to. Instead he told me that my secondary vascular system would now be supplying the blood to my now shortened limb. I did not use the mp3 player that they gave me with the visualization tracks on it as it wasnt very comfortable. My doc did not have his music playing either so the room was quite quiet. This allowed for me to be talkative lol I was able to ask questions, which was good because, the spinal, though hiding the pain certainly did not take away the feeling lol I knew exactly what they were doing, when they were doing it which thus prompted the questions. The only gross detail that I wanted to mention was to do with the saw lol and only because it was the one aspect of this whole thing that was a little disconcerting to say the least. When it came to that part, my doc used a hand saw to score the bones first, then the electric saw to actually cut the bones; now this is the part that I think everyone including myself thought would be so horrible, the noise etc. Well, I can now tell you that it sounded like an electric toothbrush and was only a zip, zip and done ;-D If anything, it was the rasp that he used after that to smooth and round the ends of the Tibia and Fibia that was more gross lmao Anyway, the rest of the operation was uneventful really, though at one point in the relative silence, just after I had the "saw" experience, I said "Question?" and the whole operating room answered me back almost simultaneously lol so I said, " I assume that by law or policy of some sort that you must weigh the piece or pieces including scraps and record it somewhere, can you tell me what that number will be?" One of the docs, said "well, yes, Kismet you're right, though we won't know what it is exactly today. Your doctors will have access to that report and will be able to tell you, probably in 10 days" Later my vascular surgeon estimated 12 lbs which would mean that I have already lost 2 more pounds just being in hospital because today I am a total of 14 lbs lighter since the 7th when I was weighed just before the operation ;-D I don't know what the doctors thought about the whole thing, they sure were quiet. I would tend to doubt that they are that quiet when the patient is asleep lol
Anyway, though the surgery went off without any hitches, recovery did not lol, I had not had anything to eat since 5 pm the night previous and nothing to drink since midnight. Why I was so ill in recovery was at first beyond me but as I sort things out in my head I think it was just my bodies response to pain/trauma, even though I had the spinal, my body is still being tramatized. Then when I started having multiple hot flashes, I was done, I never retched so much in my life lol and they wouldn't let me sit up to do it either so I basically did super crunches into a basin every 10 minutes for hours, 12 approximately, give or take an hour lol By 11:30 that night I was feeling much, much better and it's been all pretty good since then. More later xo
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