Today is my 3rd day post op and I'm still in the hospital. My doctor originally said it would be one day in and then I could go home, but that wasn't the case. Actually I don't know why I'm still here. This whole ordeal has been very stressful for my husband. He has spent every single second with me,
I did send him home last night. He was very reluctant to go, but I think he needs the rest and he's not getting it here. He made me promise to call him when wake up this morning.
So, where am I now?
Well the doctor did find the hiatal hernia and fixed it. The doctor said the hole itself has was larger than a normal stomach my hernia was the size of a grapefruit. One of the largest he has ever seen. He also said he didn't know how I've been able to function with it being so large. That I should have had massive gurd and reflux.
For those who don't know a hiatal hernia is when part of your stomach sticks upwards into the chest cavity through an opening in the hiatus lining. I don't believe I've shared on this blog that after tests it was determined that my stomach was as large as a football. As for the umbilical hernia I have , he did not fix it. Said he thinks it may resolve on its own, I don't know about that one.
I have 5 incisions scattered across my belly. All but one ( where my drainage tube is) are sealed with glue. No stitches or dressing of any kind except where the drain tube is and will remain for the next week, I have a huge bandage. honestly they don't hurt that much, where I feel the pain is inside, it feels like I'm having severe menstrual cramps.
One thing I haven't mentioned is I'm not on ANY pain meds. The first day they had me pumping dillaud with a self administering pump attached to the IV. If I felt like I was in pain I would give the pump a little squeeze and the dilaudid would go right into my IV. Nifty contraption but I've taken a lot of pain meds in my day and I know that the dilaudid kills me after a while. And it makes me have terrible stomach aches, dry mouth, and nausea.
I experienced an entire day of dry heaves, and then some pretty fantastic wretching and vomiting. That's when my husband and I told them to stop the pain meds. So I haven't had any pain medication since the day of surgery (12/16) and the vomiting has stopped.
I have a bit of pain (menstrual cramp feeling remember?) and I've been peeing like a freaking race horse. At 3:30 this morning I unhooked myself from everything and went to the bathroom. Tried to get back into bed when I realized I actually needed to have a bowel movement. I did call the nursing staff this time to let them know, they get me all prepared and then...Nothing but massive gas.
They say that's a good thing, but I still feel all bottled up.
The other thing is I've lost complete control of my bladder muscles. Nobody told me that would happen. I've completely pee'd myself in bed FOUR tImes and it SUCKS!!! Thank god the nurses are so easy going, they had to redo my bed once and then as I was getting back in, it happened all over again in less than a minute, :-(
I'm going to stop writing now because I'm getting really tired and want to go back to laying down.
More later.
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