Home run
Surgery is done. My surgeon said, "It was essentially like removing a baseball from something the size of a softball." Well, we do like baseball...
I was seriously cheery and happy yesterday, even when for a few seconds I woke up at the beginning of the surgery (that was fun and terrifying so please don't ever ask me about it) but then today they took out the catheter and I couldn't pee. Then they found two big blood clots when they went to re-catheter me that were likely responsible for me sobbing, "It burns when I try to pee and then I can't even go!" at my husband through the bathroom door.
So now I have to stay an extra night. They took my morphine pump. I'm sore. And that whole brave thing I was doing yesterday? Yeah, gone. I just want to go home.
And I am seriously wondering how I'm gonna go back to work on Thursday. I may have to cancel another day of classes. I totally feel like a failure.
I was seriously cheery and happy yesterday, even when for a few seconds I woke up at the beginning of the surgery (that was fun and terrifying so please don't ever ask me about it) but then today they took out the catheter and I couldn't pee. Then they found two big blood clots when they went to re-catheter me that were likely responsible for me sobbing, "It burns when I try to pee and then I can't even go!" at my husband through the bathroom door.
So now I have to stay an extra night. They took my morphine pump. I'm sore. And that whole brave thing I was doing yesterday? Yeah, gone. I just want to go home.
And I am seriously wondering how I'm gonna go back to work on Thursday. I may have to cancel another day of classes. I totally feel like a failure.