Cautiously Optomistic
Thank you all for your words of encouragement. Have gone and had my tonsils out earlier today (12 noon on May 4th) and doing okay.
I had a nasty reaction on waking up from the anethesia where I was in horrible pain but since I had mostly anticipated that and warned everyone I was able to get some decent drugs. Whenever I have surgery and occasionally due to other things (three times due to bouts of tonsillitus!) my nerves get hyper-sensitive and almost nothing calms them down but HEAVY narcotics. Once I get that single dose of drugs though my nerves are pacified and I don't need the heavy drugs again. It's weird. They kept giving me fentanyl but that did nothing and when the doctor came back I heard the nurse tell him I was "sucking up narcotics" and still in horrible pain. So he authorized a dose of dilaudid and that did the trick.
After that they were able to move me from post-op into the general recovery ward where I stayed for a few hours. I was quite hungry actually and had a pudding cup as well as some sherbert. I was giving vicodin and a script of it to bring home. I am being very careful to wake up every few hours now and hydrate as I guess it is VERY important my throat stay moist. I had one small amount of bleeding at 5:30pm or so but was able to stop it with ice water. Bleeding is the big danger to watch out for apparently but so far so good!
I had a nasty reaction on waking up from the anethesia where I was in horrible pain but since I had mostly anticipated that and warned everyone I was able to get some decent drugs. Whenever I have surgery and occasionally due to other things (three times due to bouts of tonsillitus!) my nerves get hyper-sensitive and almost nothing calms them down but HEAVY narcotics. Once I get that single dose of drugs though my nerves are pacified and I don't need the heavy drugs again. It's weird. They kept giving me fentanyl but that did nothing and when the doctor came back I heard the nurse tell him I was "sucking up narcotics" and still in horrible pain. So he authorized a dose of dilaudid and that did the trick.
After that they were able to move me from post-op into the general recovery ward where I stayed for a few hours. I was quite hungry actually and had a pudding cup as well as some sherbert. I was giving vicodin and a script of it to bring home. I am being very careful to wake up every few hours now and hydrate as I guess it is VERY important my throat stay moist. I had one small amount of bleeding at 5:30pm or so but was able to stop it with ice water. Bleeding is the big danger to watch out for apparently but so far so good!