So I had my surgery this past Friday. It was an
early morning that started at 7am. I was pretty nervous going into the surgery.
Mostly nervous for the nerve block, the long recovery, and just getting the
surgery over with in general. The day went fine. I went to pre op and had
a pretty amazing nurse who joked with me and talked about her daughter who also
goes to Purdue and is Elementary Education. I got my IV and filled paper work
out and then went to another pre op room for my nerve block. A nerve block is
basically a procedure where they give you sedation and then put a need down in
the femoral nerve of your thigh and it numbs the leg. I shouldn't have
been nervous about it at all because I don't remember a dang thing. They gave
me that sedation and I don't remember. Come to find out, I called the nurse
hot?? Classic me. Then, they brought me back into the room and me and my family
talked to the doctor and the anesthesiologist The next thing I
remember is being strapped into the operation table and a nurse holding my
hand. The nurses were all pretty sweet from what I remember. The next thing I
know I'm in my room. I was pretty hot after surgery so they put rags on my
body. After following normal procedure protocol, I got to go home. The surgery
itself took 2 and a half hours. And from what I also don't remember, when I
woke up I had tears rolling down my face and asking what happened. hahahaha. Oh
boy.
The rest
of Friday and Saturday mostly consisted of sleeping. I was
pretty exhausted and was trying to get the anesthesia out of my system.
I've also been pretty constipated so that's been annoying as well. Saturday
evening my two friends Grace and Maddie were sweet enough to bring me Panera
and catch up which was really sweet. Sunday was Mother's Day. I slept mostly
and just watched TV. I had the family over and we grilled out. I was
mostly up and awake that day. We have been remodeling our basement and my Mom
hasn't been able to see it. Sunday she was finally allowed to go down there as
her gift. She loved it! I had a friend over that evening as well so it was nice
to just chit chat.
Today and
Monday were basically the same. I've been watching a lot of TV and sleeping for
like an hour after I take my heavy pain pills every 4 hours. I'm also taking a
heavy anti-inflammatory pill. They make me pretty tired. I've been able to get
around a little better on my crutches today. I can lift my leg using my arms
now (which I pretty much have to do all the time). It's still extremely
difficult to go to the bathroom. Imagine sitting with a straight leg brace and
trying to pee. I never thought I'd say this, but I've missed a couple times.
Haha. It hasn't been horrible but it's definitely not fun. It's painful
when I don't take my pills but it's mostly just very uncomfortable. I can't
sleep during the night at all and can never seem to get comfortable. I just
want to be able to bend my leg. I can't take a shower yet so my mom has just
been sponge bathing me. I haven't washed my hair since Thursday... and So far,
I despise people with 2 legs. Lucky me, I live on a golf course and watch
people play golf so I dream a lot....
Today was
the first time I was able to get out of the house. I had a doctor's appointment
to check my incision. I was excited to see it and look at what I'm dealing
with. Until I saw it. It's pretty gross. It's very swollen and bruised and
the incision is bigger than I thought. When they unwrapped it I had to ask for
water because I felt sick and light-headed. However, the doctor said it
looked good and I go back a week from today to take my stitches out. After the
appointment, I just went back to the house. It's pretty hard to ride, get in,
and get out of the car with a straight leg. Even worse, getting up the stairs
in crutches. The neighbors were probably all looking at us weird because I had
to sit on my butt and scoot myself up the stairs until I got inside and
scooted myself up my house stairs. I won't be doing that for a little while.
BUT it was so nice to get outside. All in all, I'm hanging in there. It's a
loonnnngg uncomfortable and painful process but it can only go up from here.
I'm hanging on to how much better it will feel after this all is behind
me.
"In case you didn't know, baby I'm crazy bout
you,
And I'd be lying if I said that I could live this
life without you,
Even though, I don't tell you all the time, you had
my heart a long long time ago,
In case you didn't know."
"In Case you Didn't Know" by Brett Young
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