D-day: As good as I could expect it to be
Reached the hospital at sharp 10:30am. Procedure was scheduled at 12:30pm. Spent about 30 mins for paper work & was then taken to the pre-op wing where I stripped down to a hospital gown, wore some knee high compression socks ( to avoid clotting I was told). The usual BP, temp etc along with another blood screen & was hooked onto the IV drip.
The doctor came in & said the procedure should take about 1.5hrs. Really calm & reassuring as usual and I was truly not feeling anxious or scared or anything. I was ready to get this done. Kind of felt like it does when I am really ready to face a tough test at school. Made some markings at my incision site.
My family members were allowed to come in pairs & I could see on their faces that it was really sinking into them what was eventually gonna happen. The nurse was also kind enough to even allow my almost 5 yr old & I am proud how brave she behaved seeing me even though she knew there was something serious going on.
Really friendly anetheist took me thru a standard questionnaire and hooked me on to some "happy juice". At around 12:10 pm they proceeded to roll me in to the Op theater #7. I was transferred to the op table & that is all I recollect.
It was around 3:15pm & my family members were getting anxious expecting the surgert to be over by 2:00pm. The surgeon went & updated my family members in the waiting room & to their reliefs told them he was happy with the surgery & spent time with each one of them including my daughter.
I believe I came out of anesthesia around 3:30pm in the PACU with the two anethesists on both my sides. There was some questioning I don't remember but I immediately realized that I no longer had any pain on my right arm or shoulder blade. They also told me the surgery went really well.
My wife n mom were the first to see me and they were so relieved. I was still a bit foggy but all I kept saying was that I didn't have any pain on my arm.
4 months of misery were history. They transferred me to a room around 7pm. Had some clear soup & puddling. I was by then aware that a drain was sticking out of my inscision site, a catheter to take care of urine & a pain pump to let me control my pain medication based on when I wanted to have some. Since it was a shared room, my wife couldn't stay with me.
So that was D-day... As good as I could expect it to be.
The doctor came in & said the procedure should take about 1.5hrs. Really calm & reassuring as usual and I was truly not feeling anxious or scared or anything. I was ready to get this done. Kind of felt like it does when I am really ready to face a tough test at school. Made some markings at my incision site.
My family members were allowed to come in pairs & I could see on their faces that it was really sinking into them what was eventually gonna happen. The nurse was also kind enough to even allow my almost 5 yr old & I am proud how brave she behaved seeing me even though she knew there was something serious going on.
Really friendly anetheist took me thru a standard questionnaire and hooked me on to some "happy juice". At around 12:10 pm they proceeded to roll me in to the Op theater #7. I was transferred to the op table & that is all I recollect.
It was around 3:15pm & my family members were getting anxious expecting the surgert to be over by 2:00pm. The surgeon went & updated my family members in the waiting room & to their reliefs told them he was happy with the surgery & spent time with each one of them including my daughter.
I believe I came out of anesthesia around 3:30pm in the PACU with the two anethesists on both my sides. There was some questioning I don't remember but I immediately realized that I no longer had any pain on my right arm or shoulder blade. They also told me the surgery went really well.
My wife n mom were the first to see me and they were so relieved. I was still a bit foggy but all I kept saying was that I didn't have any pain on my arm.
4 months of misery were history. They transferred me to a room around 7pm. Had some clear soup & puddling. I was by then aware that a drain was sticking out of my inscision site, a catheter to take care of urine & a pain pump to let me control my pain medication based on when I wanted to have some. Since it was a shared room, my wife couldn't stay with me.
So that was D-day... As good as I could expect it to be.
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