Surgery

So in my last blog I told you all that I spent Christmas in the hospital. Here's what has happened since. The day after Christmas I woke up and was in some pain so I took some meds and ate some food so the meds wouldn't make me sick. My mom tried calling the surgeons office but they weren't answering due to the holidays so she was at work and she told some of her doctor friends about what was happening with me. One of the doctors saw the surgeon my mom was trying to get a hold of in the doctors lounge and told him what was going on. He then looked at my ultra sound called my mom talked to her then she called me/my dad and talked to us and told me to stop eating and drinking and to get to the hospital as soon as possible for surgery.

So I got ready and headed to the hospital. Checked in and went to my room and the nurse tried to put an IV in she got it in and it wouldn't bleed right so she took it out and it started bleeding. haha go figure so she then tried again and was able to put it in my hand. So they took some more blood work and prepping me for surgery. So I hung out in the room for a while before they took me down to the OR. When they did take me down the the OR they put my in the prep room first so i could meet the doctor and he could tell me what he was going to do and i could sign papers and stuff like that. That was actually the scariest part of the whole ordeal. There were other people in there recovering from the surgeries already and they were moaning and groaning in pain and yeah it kind of freaked me out. so I was trying to relax while waiting for the Dr. Giles to show up and the nurse checks my IV come to find out the nurse put the wrong size of IV in my hand. they put a 22 in when they usually put a 20 or 18 so they tried sticking me again. They couldn't get it, and was about to try again when the anesthesiologist came and said not to they'd do it once i'm under because my veins will be more dilated. So Dr. Giles came in and we talked then they took me to the OR, and the last thing I remember till after the surgery is breathing deep. Apparently during my surgery they had to try 6 more times to get an IV in. I have bruises on my arms and hands from where they tried. So after the surgery when I first came to it startled me I didn't know where I was or what happened for a bit.

After my surgery Dr. Giles went and talked to my parents about how it went. Everything went fine, but they did find some odd things. For one my gallbladder was really swollen due to the 10 mm by 13mm gallstone blocking the duct so no bile could get into my gallbladder but the mucus that the gallbladder produces that mixes with the bile was building up and making it swollen. So that wasn't good and then they also found some other odd things that I need to go to a different doctor to have checked out. So yeah surgery went fine they made 4 small incisions one in my bellybutton where the scar won't be seen which is nice then three incisions on my upper abdomen. It's actually pretty cool!

After my surgery they took me back up to my room where my parents were waiting. They gave me some more pain killers and I went to sleep for a while. I didn't get much sleep through the night due to them coming in and constantly checking my blood pressure and seeing how my pain was. The funny part was when ever they came in to check on my pain I was fine but when I was in pain I had to page them. oh well! So they had my on an all liquid diet for my breakfast just to make sure i could keep things down since the day before i was throwing up. That was fine so I was able to have a normal meal for lunch. I actually spent the pretty much the whole day Saturday the 27 in the hospital waiting for the doctor to come and check on me and give me the ok to go home. I was hurting that day a lot. I can honestly say I really don't care for surgery all that much. :)

So Dr. Giles told me that I need to not just lay around all day and wait to get better. I need to be up walking around that's the only way I'm going to get better. So that's exactly what I tried to do. They gave me some really strong Vicodin that when i took it made me really tired. So when I could I would get up and walk around. So Sunday I mostly laid around with ice, watched tv/movies, and played my computer. by the end of the day i was wanting to get out of the house and do something. I hate being laid up I can't do it. I couldn't stay home for even a day. Yes I did leave the house Sunday night and I drove myself while on pain meds. Yeah I know know the smartest thing but I didn't go very far just a couple miles away to branch prayer. It was nice to see my friends and let them know that I had surgery. Yes I was a slacker and didn't tell anyone. I didn't want them to worry about me. So monday I did the same thing as sunday laid around most of the day went shopping with Bryn then went and watched Caleb play basketball which I due every monday. So yeah I'm recovering well probably should have rested a bit more but I'm doing well I went to the Institute New Years Eve party, and went back to work New Years day 6 days after my surgery. and yeah. I'm doing great a week after my surgery I wasn't on pain meds any more the strongest thing I've taken since New Years Day is an Ibuprofen, so I'm doing good, and I'm going to play volleyball this saturday! WAHOO!!!! I almost played last saturday but decided to give myself a couple of weeks before doing that.

Well you are all caught up on my life hopefully I won't have any more major sickness sort of things to talk about on this! Have a great New Year Everyone!