So I’ll be honest today kinda stunk because I had planned on coming home pretty early to spend the day with my sister, Jordan, and Corryn and instead I was still admitted most of the evening for after surgery care. The good news was that my infection has improved greatly and I at least made it home tonight resting in my own comfy bed.
However to be truly helpful to others in my shoes, I’m going to talk about the less then fun aspects of after surgery care. For example, who knew that it is pretty common for anesthesia to put your bladder to sleep for several hours or even days after surgery making it impossible to urinate on your own? This happened for a day after my bilateral Mastectomy a few weeks back, but was much worse this time around. Let’s just say that 2 days of straight catheters administered by nurses in order to empty your bladder was NOT the highlight of my stay. But there’s also the supervised bathroom breaks, shower time and hand/belt held walks in the hall if you truly want to feel needy or incompetent.
However if you’re looking to get everyone back and give them a good scare, you could always loose consciousness just long enough to fall to the floor and nock you’re new incisions against your bed 😊 Although it’s somewhat humorous to talk about now, I know I freaked a lot of people out so please rest assured that it was a minor fall and all tests checked out clean. I really am doing just fine. Plus I’ll make you feel better by telling you that they stripped a bit of dignity from me by slapping a very high fashion fall risk bracket in neon yellow to my wrist, attached a very detailed sign to my door, and yes they even put an alarm attached to my bed that sounded if I got up without supervision/assistance. It is a good thing I again had amazingly funny and comforting nurses to ease this stay!
All in all my fist stay at the Spectrum Blodgett Campus was pretty great considering the circumstances, I had great doctors and nurses and again left with a few more new and great friends.
Now for some sleep…