Hospital Daze

I had to stay in the hospital for 3 and a half days!  My surgery was on Tuesday morning, and I did not get released until Friday afternoon.

To be honest, most of my hospital stay was a blur.  Not because of the pain meds, but because of the constant visits by the nurses, doctors, hospital staff, and PT.  The most sleep I ever got was the few and far between 2 hr naps.  Otherwise, I was up pretty much the whole time.  I was absolutely exhausted keeping up with the schedule of vitals check ups, taking medications, having blood taken, doing PT, eating, etc.

My pain remained between 8/9 out of 10 for my entire stay.  I had to stay so long because none of the narcotics worked to relieve any of my pain.  This caused me to have a fever and an elevated HR.  The worst day was Thursday morning, when they removed my IV pain drip and switched me to oral meds.  The highest dose of percocet that they could give me did absolutely nothing for me.  That morning my pain peaked at a 10.  The rest of the day, they ended up injecting dilaudid through my IV in combination with taking percocet.

I had to get an ECG and an echocardiogram done before they would release me to rule out a heart problem causing my tachycardia.

My heart passed these tests with flying colors, so around 3 pm on Friday, January 18th, I was finally released! I was so happy to bust out of jail.

I am so grateful to my friends that visited me and brought balloons, stuffed animals, flowers, and goodies that made my stay go by much faster!