Home last night...

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  • ktlcs
    ktlcs Member Posts: 358
    coolvdub said:

    Glad your back
    Buzz,

    Really happy to hear you made it back home from surgery. Sounds like you are getting back to your old self. You will be right as rain in no time. And don't piss off the wife, or she will make you miserable.

    Don

    Glad you're home
    Good to hear you're back home recovering. It's pretty scary for us wives too ya know. Go eady on her

    Kathy
  • geotina
    geotina Member Posts: 2,111 Member
    Buzz:
    Glad to see you are home and posting. Wife just loves ya, this stuff is hard on us caregivers too, we just want to make sure we are doing everything right and obeying doctors orders and we hate to see the one we love so very much in pain.

    Sorry about the pain stuff that just sucks.

    You are home now, recouperating and healing and that is the important part.

    Take care - Tina
  • Erinb
    Erinb Member Posts: 293
    Buzz
    Of course you just want to lay around. I can't even phathom the pain you must be in, but Im sure your wife doesn't want you back in the hospital so try to take it easy on her! I'm so happy to see your post. It is unbelievable that you didn't have your epidural in for two days. A friend of ours just got a letter from the MAYO clinic. There was a nurse who was injecting pain medication and giving the patients saline solution. He was HIV positive. Now our friend has to go back and get a blood test. Never know what can go on at the hospitals.
    I wish you a fast recovery.
    Erin
  • KathiM
    KathiM Member Posts: 8,028 Member
    Keep us updated as you can...

    Hugs, Kathi
  • ADKer
    ADKer Member Posts: 147
    Erinb said:

    Buzz
    Of course you just want to lay around. I can't even phathom the pain you must be in, but Im sure your wife doesn't want you back in the hospital so try to take it easy on her! I'm so happy to see your post. It is unbelievable that you didn't have your epidural in for two days. A friend of ours just got a letter from the MAYO clinic. There was a nurse who was injecting pain medication and giving the patients saline solution. He was HIV positive. Now our friend has to go back and get a blood test. Never know what can go on at the hospitals.
    I wish you a fast recovery.
    Erin

    Feel better soon
    Best wishes for a speedy recovery. I hope that things turn around for you quickly.
  • maglets
    maglets Member Posts: 2,576 Member
    KathiM said:

    Keep us updated as you can...

    Hugs, Kathi

    home
    welcome home Buzz....oh those long exhausting days after surgery.....

    that's swell!!! you are home.....rest rest rest

    mags
  • Luv2lunch
    Luv2lunch Member Posts: 270
    Hi Buzz,
    So glad you are

    Hi Buzz,
    So glad you are back. Hope you will be feeling well soon. Rest is good. Love and prayers, Linda and El
  • C Dixon
    C Dixon Member Posts: 201
    So Good to Hear from You
    Just like everyone else, I have been looking for your post. You know there is an emotional element to surgery recovery too that I think compounds the process. I quit taking the pain meeds because I hate the way they make me feel but then I just cried from the pain, but I would rather do that than cry from depression.

    My husband was gone to Drill for most of my recovery but my mom was here and bless her heart, she drove me crazy. That was another reason I quit taking the meds, so I could drive myself places! I hope that doesn't sound ungrateful. Recovery is physical, mental and emotional and they all don't heal at the same pace.

    You sound pretty good to me though and I'm glad you are home.

    Take care and keep us posted,

    Catherine
  • pluckey
    pluckey Member Posts: 484 Member
    C Dixon said:

    So Good to Hear from You
    Just like everyone else, I have been looking for your post. You know there is an emotional element to surgery recovery too that I think compounds the process. I quit taking the pain meeds because I hate the way they make me feel but then I just cried from the pain, but I would rather do that than cry from depression.

    My husband was gone to Drill for most of my recovery but my mom was here and bless her heart, she drove me crazy. That was another reason I quit taking the meds, so I could drive myself places! I hope that doesn't sound ungrateful. Recovery is physical, mental and emotional and they all don't heal at the same pace.

    You sound pretty good to me though and I'm glad you are home.

    Take care and keep us posted,

    Catherine

    Buzz - soooo releived that
    Buzz - soooo releived that you posted and gave us update. Tell your wife that all of us semi-colons said it's OK for you to lay around a bit post surgery, you deserve it! We will then colllectively help her kick your AZZ if we need to, when the time is right.

    But for now - welcome home and praying for you to keep on keeping on

    ((HUGS))

    Peggy
  • pepebcn
    pepebcn Member Posts: 6,331 Member
    C Dixon said:

    So Good to Hear from You
    Just like everyone else, I have been looking for your post. You know there is an emotional element to surgery recovery too that I think compounds the process. I quit taking the pain meeds because I hate the way they make me feel but then I just cried from the pain, but I would rather do that than cry from depression.

    My husband was gone to Drill for most of my recovery but my mom was here and bless her heart, she drove me crazy. That was another reason I quit taking the meds, so I could drive myself places! I hope that doesn't sound ungrateful. Recovery is physical, mental and emotional and they all don't heal at the same pace.

    You sound pretty good to me though and I'm glad you are home.

    Take care and keep us posted,

    Catherine

    hope you recover very soon
    although you feel a crap it's worth !
    Just a few days!
    Best.
  • HollyID
    HollyID Member Posts: 946 Member
    Glad you posted...
    Post again when you can and when you're stronger.

    My epidural leaked down my back when it was on. I don't think I got a whole lot of pain control either. We all know it's OK to feel like crap. Lay around and gather some strength. Post when you can.

    Love to you

    Holly
  • z
    z Member Posts: 1,414 Member
    Buzz
    Hi Buzz,

    I hope you feel better today. I will be having vats on the 23rd, and as soon as your up to it, I hope you will give a play by play of the procedure. I have a pretty good idea and have read about other posters that have gone through the procedure. I never thought I would be hoping for a primary lung cancer, rather than a metasis, like you had previously said. I hope your path results come out good, and hopefully with all the chemo and stress our bodies have gone through it will be some type of benign granuloma, as it was very small. Have a good day. Lori
  • ketziah35
    ketziah35 Member Posts: 1,145
    Welcome back!

    Welcome back!
  • Lori-S
    Lori-S Member Posts: 1,277 Member
    ketziah35 said:

    Welcome back!

    Welcome back!

    Welcome
    Welcome home! Hope you are feeling better soon.

    I bet some of us who aren't such great patients could use your wife. Have you thought of renting out her services to keep others in line? It sounds like she's a real asset.
  • Aud
    Aud Member Posts: 479 Member
    hey, Buzz
    Welcome home! Holding you in the Light for healing and strength.
    ~Aud
  • daydreamer110761
    daydreamer110761 Member Posts: 487 Member
    Aud said:

    hey, Buzz
    Welcome home! Holding you in the Light for healing and strength.
    ~Aud

    glad your home
    and good to see you posting. hey dude - sometimes, wives are worth listening too....get better quick.
  • Paula G.
    Paula G. Member Posts: 596
    I had to respond Clift. I am
    I had to respond Clift. I am glad you posted.Get feeling better real soon. Love Paula
  • lesvanb
    lesvanb Member Posts: 905
    Glad to hear from you
    phew 1/2 a lobe! You hang in there Clift and keep on healing, hopefully with good pain meds now

    all the best, Leslie
  • idlehunters
    idlehunters Member Posts: 1,787 Member
    lesvanb said:

    Glad to hear from you
    phew 1/2 a lobe! You hang in there Clift and keep on healing, hopefully with good pain meds now

    all the best, Leslie

    BUZZAROONIE !!!!!!
    Hello schweethart!!! SOOOOO glad to hear from you. Please take it easy..get rest..lots of it...... You take care

    Jen
  • Kathryn_in_MN
    Kathryn_in_MN Member Posts: 1,252 Member
    Happy to hear you are home
    Lay around! Lay around all you want!

    So sorry to hear your epidural came out and the pains meds were wasted, with you getting nothing. I had an epidural for my hysterectomy and it was wonderful. I don't do well on pain meds, but I liked that. If you'd only known, you could have taken other meds by IV or pill. Damn!

    I just got home from the hospital this afternoon with a damn chest tube. Punctured lung that deflated (port insertion surgery). I can't imagine the pain you have with lung surgery. I can tell you just my stupid punctured lung and this damn chest tube (right next to my sore chest from port insertion), hurt bad enough. I can't imagine you going through lung surgery - and not getting any pain meds. We always knew you were a tough old buzzard, but you proved it again!

    So lay around all you want, and to hell with anyone who doesn't like it! Rest and take care of you first.