Greetings from my new home.. the couch! Sorry I haven't done any updates yet.. I have been seriously drugged up! I am going to summarize the last few days in 3 blog posts... starting with "The Ugly"... Warning **nasty**
So, since I had a major nerve block, I was basically 'pain free' the first 24 hours. I started my pain medication on Thursday night, in case the block wore off in the middle of the night. So on Friday morning, I was still doing pretty well. Jeremy set me up with everything I needed within reach, and headed into work. Unfortunately, about 30 mins later, I began to 'react' to coming off of the general anesthesia. I became violently ill, and was so dizzy and faint I couldn't move to a more appropriate place to vomit. My nerve block ,began wearing off around the same time, so my pain levels were sky high as well. I was trapped, surrounded by my own vomit and couldn't move. I had to call Jeremy and ask for him to come home. Jeremy got home about 20 mins later and called the dr. The dr prescribed me an anti nausea pill, which didn't work. :( The 'ugliest' moment of the next few hours was when I grabbed a bag to 'be sick' into, and it had a HOLE in it...so 'red gatorade' vomit went all over myself, the floor and even part of my surgical dressing. Poor Jeremy.. had to clean it all up, since I was completely unable to even sit up at the time.
A few phone calls to the dr. later and they finally found an anti nausea pill that worked for me, and switched my pain meds as well. By about 10:30 on Friday night, I was finally sleeping and had the pain someone managed, and was no longer getting sick. Friday was the worst one of the recovery.. and will forever be labeled... The UGLY.
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