Who's on Deck?

Will be thinking about darcher and sending positive thoughts for successful surgery.

Grace

sending good thoughts for a successful surgery and easy recovery!! Good luck!!!

me in.  Best wishes for a good outcome and a speedy recovery. 

Pam

darcher said:

Getting ready to head in.  

Getting ready to head in.   Bringing the cell but I don't know that they have wi-fi or even a signal there to post from.  At the radiation center there wasn't and here who knows.  I would think they don't want cell phones going off every 10 seconds.  It's about 5 am here and I'm due to arrive at 6:30.  Nevous and at the same time optomistic.  We'll see how this goes.  I expect to be out sometime this afternoon.   I'll keep everyone posted.   Keep up the faith.

All of the hospitals that I’ve dealt with lately have had WiFi. My radiation center didn’t. They will take your cell, clothes, shoes, etc for surgery and check valuables so it might be a bit before you get them back.

Best if luck and wishes in your surgery and we’ll see you on the other side. You may be quite out of it and I will certainly understand if it’s a day or two or three before seeing you. I do recommend short and sweet at first.4

darcher said:

Did the surgery and went off

Did the surgery and went off without a hitch.  They do epidermal which is kinda nice.  No bag, no complications, and was done inside 3 hours.   Wasn’t so bad after all.  I’ll post more of the play by play in a while

That was quick, and you don't even sound drowsy. 

Still, be good to yourself, and take care not to overdo it, while making sure you walk plenty. 

Tru

darcher said:

Did the surgery and went off

Did the surgery and went off without a hitch.  They do epidermal which is kinda nice.  No bag, no complications, and was done inside 3 hours.   Wasn’t so bad after all.  I’ll post more of the play by play in a while

So glad it went well.

Grace/lizard44

I'm glad to hear everything went well my thoughts and prayers are with you 

m~~ Kim

Sounds like everything went the way it was supposed to go. I have been praying to the same guy that healed me.

Just get all the rest you can and listen to the pros. You are going to do great.  God bless you  blessed39

i suspect they were trying out a new type of anethesia process.   Im using their in room compuror to type this and can't reallly see the words to well.  Screen is up on the wall.  Im trying to  slow myself down a little bit.   I didn't see one other person on this floor ias mobile as I was today so maybe Im  over doing it,.    I did throw up eating a big mac but what was really odd is I ididn;'t get the usual cramping  and so forth sensations just prior.  From one moment to the next it just came up.  When I get the Hemprin shots I dont feel anything at all.  I suspect it's  the meds masking the pain a bit too much.  I should have been doubled over but I wasnb't so that kind of scarred me.  However, there was no dietary restrictions.   After the recovery room they had me on Ox and had those leg compression things on.  I had the oxygen removed and they were ok with my reaction along with the leg constrates. taken off . Next item was the BP,  oxygen saturator ,and heart rate monitor.

This is where it gets strange. At first nothing was going on with it and that was just prior to me "really" waking up.  I went and got coffee and was just cruising aroung the floor and some of the looks I got were shocked as if I wasn;'t supposed to be doing that. .  Fact is.,  I didn't feel a thing.  It wasn't all peaches though.  There must have been some left over material in the colon because at one point it all came out while I was sitting on the bed.  I thought it was just gas but the bad thing was I had zero control over it.  Like when I thre up a little later, this just came out.  This I believe is attributable to the epidral Anyhow, after making a few trips for coffee etc the machine started going off with an alarm.  Low pressure and or heart low rate. 

 Nurses had to come in a couple times and piior to that they had a "risk of fall" tag on me.  One of three tags I got in preop,  That was because my BP fell beloww 100 and heart rate under 60.  I guess they figure you're much more likely to collapse.  The nurses disconnected the machine knowing that I wasn't a risk after seeing me make the trips down the hall. The nurses were a little concerned that I was able to get around with such a low BP and I did fib a little bit saying it wasn't uncommon for that to happen. I had a  strong suscpion  as to what it was.  

 On the one hand having an anathesia that strong seems like a blessing but I got a feeling I'm going to pay for it once the chemical bag goes empty.  Then again, my big fear (the colostomy bag) was avoided.  That was about the only stress I had and with it gone, I would expect the vitals  to relax  a bit.  I came through this with no black marks.  It almost seems unfair.  In all honesty, it probably is and why I was blessed with a clean escape I don't know.  I expect to find out soon enough.  Nothing is free and this has a steep price I'm sure.