Sunday,Oct 1: It's Laurie! ?Coming Home?
FINALLY!!! Seemed to be getting the hang of this lap-top on the last day!! Still not as comfortable as my home computer, but let me get the important things out.
Planning on coming home tomorrow, Oct 2, in at 6:30 pm, USAir. The surgery was horridly painful. Still in a fair amount of pain from the thoracotomy site. The chest tube area has improved since they took out the sutures on Friday, but the back area hurts a lot. About a 6 inch surgical scar. Still taking narcotics around the clock, which should give you an idea of the pain, because I wasn't using anything besides Tylenol from the time of discharge after both heart surgeries. This has lead to another problem: constipation. Really is bad. Why am I mentioning this? Because last night, bearing down, I felt something coming out in the back area, and I seem to feel a bulge at the thoracotomy site whenever I blow my nose.... I will call tomorrow and see if I can be seen at the surgeon's office, but I know it will be tough because my surgeon, along with a lot of the department, is off for Yom Kippur. Sigh. And I'm eating tons of fruit, taking softners, drinking water.... you get the idea (probably more than you would like!). Doubt anyone would give an opinion before 6 weeks of healing, can't even contemplate another surgery like this. Really was brutal.
Barbara reports that the kitties miss me terribly. Haven't talked to Brenda since she has hit the surf and sand. Well, Mom says it's stopped raining, so off to dinner. Japanese, I think she wants, with lots of vegetables for me! Hope to be home soon. Laurie
Planning on coming home tomorrow, Oct 2, in at 6:30 pm, USAir. The surgery was horridly painful. Still in a fair amount of pain from the thoracotomy site. The chest tube area has improved since they took out the sutures on Friday, but the back area hurts a lot. About a 6 inch surgical scar. Still taking narcotics around the clock, which should give you an idea of the pain, because I wasn't using anything besides Tylenol from the time of discharge after both heart surgeries. This has lead to another problem: constipation. Really is bad. Why am I mentioning this? Because last night, bearing down, I felt something coming out in the back area, and I seem to feel a bulge at the thoracotomy site whenever I blow my nose.... I will call tomorrow and see if I can be seen at the surgeon's office, but I know it will be tough because my surgeon, along with a lot of the department, is off for Yom Kippur. Sigh. And I'm eating tons of fruit, taking softners, drinking water.... you get the idea (probably more than you would like!). Doubt anyone would give an opinion before 6 weeks of healing, can't even contemplate another surgery like this. Really was brutal.
Barbara reports that the kitties miss me terribly. Haven't talked to Brenda since she has hit the surf and sand. Well, Mom says it's stopped raining, so off to dinner. Japanese, I think she wants, with lots of vegetables for me! Hope to be home soon. Laurie
posted by Laurie @ 5:46 PM
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