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bellbird
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I wasn't able to go to sleep again.
My morphine pill took an hour and a half to start working.
My nurse paged the house surgeon to come and have a look at me, but he only became available after the morphine started working as well. So I will just wait until my surgical doctors make the rounds and talk about it with them then.
I'll let y'all know how that goes.
For now, I'll do a little more recapping :)
March 2 2019. Post op day 2
My second full day in ICU.
This was the day that I came off my ketamine infusion. It was difficult, of course, to suddenly be without an analgesic that you had been receiving constantly for 48 hours.
But it was also a very good thing. My head felt so much clearer after it was stopped.
I really don't do the whole "drugged" feeling well, both because it triggers flashbacks of the Abuse Years, and because I like to feel in control of my body.
Unfortunately I had to keep my chest tube in for that day.
They kept saying the chest tube was still 'swinging' which I suppose is a motion of the tube that is caused by fluid draining through it.
And because it was still draining, I had to have another chest x-ray, which was just as painful as the day before's.
My surgeon came to visit me, looking as though he was about to go the the gym. Which I thought was really sweet that he would come into hospital to check on how I was doing personally, when he was clearly not planning to come into hospital for much other work.
This day was the first day that I stood for the first time!!
My nurses helped me. We sat on the edge of the bed like the previous day, but this time didn't feel faint! So after resting there for a while, my nurses helped me to stand (a very weird experience) and walk the few small steps over to the arm chair in my room.
I ended up sitting there for 4/5 hours :)
My nurses in ICU were incredible.
They helped me to brush my teeth once a day.
They gave me sponge baths to help me feel as clean as possible.
They even use to flip my pillows over during the day so that I could rest my head on the cool side of the pillow again.
3 ICU nurses, especially, I will never forget.
My mum bought a couple of thank you cards that I'm going to write in and give to ICU and the orthopaedic ward when I leave.
So that was day 2 :)
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Ok quick update.
A registrar (of the non cute variety) from my surgical team just came past.
He asked about my tummy and I brought him up to scratch. He didn't know about my xrays over the weekend but said he will have a look at them and ask a general surgeon to come have a look at me.
I'm going to be switched to a liquid diet because there's only so many solids I can put in with nothing coming out.
Though I'm a little nervous about that, being recently recovered from my ED. I'll just have to remain honest to myself, and communicate well with my nurses if my mindset ventures into that territory again.
The registrar said we really need to do something because this has gone way beyond "normal constipation".
So now we wait.. again.
My morphine pill took an hour and a half to start working.
My nurse paged the house surgeon to come and have a look at me, but he only became available after the morphine started working as well. So I will just wait until my surgical doctors make the rounds and talk about it with them then.
I'll let y'all know how that goes.
For now, I'll do a little more recapping :)
March 2 2019. Post op day 2
My second full day in ICU.
This was the day that I came off my ketamine infusion. It was difficult, of course, to suddenly be without an analgesic that you had been receiving constantly for 48 hours.
But it was also a very good thing. My head felt so much clearer after it was stopped.
I really don't do the whole "drugged" feeling well, both because it triggers flashbacks of the Abuse Years, and because I like to feel in control of my body.
Unfortunately I had to keep my chest tube in for that day.
They kept saying the chest tube was still 'swinging' which I suppose is a motion of the tube that is caused by fluid draining through it.
And because it was still draining, I had to have another chest x-ray, which was just as painful as the day before's.
My surgeon came to visit me, looking as though he was about to go the the gym. Which I thought was really sweet that he would come into hospital to check on how I was doing personally, when he was clearly not planning to come into hospital for much other work.
This day was the first day that I stood for the first time!!
My nurses helped me. We sat on the edge of the bed like the previous day, but this time didn't feel faint! So after resting there for a while, my nurses helped me to stand (a very weird experience) and walk the few small steps over to the arm chair in my room.
I ended up sitting there for 4/5 hours :)
My nurses in ICU were incredible.
They helped me to brush my teeth once a day.
They gave me sponge baths to help me feel as clean as possible.
They even use to flip my pillows over during the day so that I could rest my head on the cool side of the pillow again.
3 ICU nurses, especially, I will never forget.
My mum bought a couple of thank you cards that I'm going to write in and give to ICU and the orthopaedic ward when I leave.
So that was day 2 :)
--
Ok quick update.
A registrar (of the non cute variety) from my surgical team just came past.
He asked about my tummy and I brought him up to scratch. He didn't know about my xrays over the weekend but said he will have a look at them and ask a general surgeon to come have a look at me.
I'm going to be switched to a liquid diet because there's only so many solids I can put in with nothing coming out.
Though I'm a little nervous about that, being recently recovered from my ED. I'll just have to remain honest to myself, and communicate well with my nurses if my mindset ventures into that territory again.
The registrar said we really need to do something because this has gone way beyond "normal constipation".
So now we wait.. again.
