October 31, 2008 ~ Halloween and 1 day post takedown;

Surgery went well and I am one day post takedown.  I am on saline IV and ice chips.  I peed once, so no catheter necessary. For pain, I am on morhpine and some anti-inflammatory IV.  I was on something else before and it made me depressed so they changed it out.  Now, I have a slight tummy ache.

Puffer is gone.  The wound is odd.  There are approximately three wicks (waxy white substance) submersed into the incision.  Some bleeding and discharge gently oozes from the site.  Apparently this promotes healthy healing. 

I had some drama today.  I awoke from a two hour nap to find my abdomen around the incision site drenched in blood.  I pressed the call button and no one came for a good twenty minutes!  The floor was bustling with a bunch of pressing issues.  Luckily for me, the nurse manager appeared in my room and took charge.  The two resident docs eventually showed up to say really it wasn’ t all that much blood.  At about the same time I was suddenly consumed with nausea and inconsolable sobbing.  It seemed so surreal to me.  I did vomit and I did finally stop bawling.  At the time I shared a room but my room mate was moved to a private room.  This left the brightly lit window side of the room available for me!  Working the moment, I quickly asked the nurse manager for the brighter side.  I enjoyed it for several hours while AK and M visited, and then they told me I’d be moving again.  Apparently a male needs a room and so I am to be put with a female back on the dark side of the room.  Ugh!  Life is full of haphazards.