Jeremy
Through hell and back
by , 10-11-2013 at 03:06 PM (1462 Views)
So I had me surgery at 4pm on Tuesday oct 8th and after the surgery I was fine. A little pain from gas and some chest pain from gas, but the surgeon said everything went fine and I though I was on my way. Well at about 2am that night I started having some more pain and the nurse told me to push the pain medicine button so I did. Weather the pain medicine was related or not I started feeling nauseous so they gave me IV nofran.
About an hour later I started sweating like crazy and my blood pressure dropped to 65/56 and my hear rate was in the 150s so they put me on IV fluids to get my blood pressure up.
The next morning after two full bags of IV fluid I was supposed to go get the leak test X-ray but when I sat up I nearly passed out so they postponed it. Now because I couldn't get up they decided to put catheder in me and that of course sucked.
After a few hours I stared having a hard time berthing and eventually could breath deeply enough to just catch my breat so they called a code rescue and about 20 doctors and nurses rushed in with machines and crash carts. I thought I was dying and they poked me with tones of needle and took enough blood to drain me, one of which was an artery blood draw and that hurt like I've never felt before. So after a few moble chest X-rays and more doctors they ruled out bloot clots and pneumonia but decided to transfer me to the ICU.
Now here's where the fun started. I was already a little nauseous and the guy pushing my bed to the ICU decided he would hit every wall and every corner he could and the trip was bumpy enough to make Neil Armstrong sick, so once I got to the ICU I started throwing up, but all I've had up to thus point was ice chips so I was just dry heaving very hard. That lasted about ten horrible hours and nothing they game me could stop it. They tried IV meds, direct shots into my arm, finall the only thing that game a little relief to take a breath was the under the toungue dissolvable ondansatron I was prescribed for when I got home.
So I passed out and woke up a few hours later feeling less nauseous so they took me down to get the X-ray leak test to make sure there is no leak. I drank the horrible liquid, kept it down, and no leak! So now I can breath fine, I'm not nauseous and after they took the catheter out I could urinate. So we waited for a few long hours and finally got the discharge papers! Now I am at home day one, I still have a heart rate of about 125 when I walk and gas pain but otherwise I'm alive.
The doctors said everything was most likely because if the anesthesia. There were many times when I thought, "what the hell did I do"..." I wish I could go back to before the surgery." Hopefully things start to look up and I will feel less regret.
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