I hope they gave you some good painkillers for the next few days. You'll need them. I had a laparoscopy (probably what they did for you to get rid of Horace) back in 07.
Also, i'm pretty sure the glue will hold till those incisions are healed. The bloaty feeling? Was definitely weird, much less waking up after the surgery. i was all WTF? I'm MISSING HOURS HERE. A bizarre hole in my sense of time passing. I still spent the next two days mostly sleeping because of the darvocet my doc gave me, but it worked. Then i got frustrated with the fuzzy brain it gave me and stopped taking it. But the pain? Didn't exist for those few days, so yes. i had fuzzy brain for that long at least. After that? bearable.
I had access to absolutely no painkillers at all. But I get my stitches out in a week, along with my test results. Here's to a negative for lymphoma! *cheers!*
Good pain killers and trashy tv are your friends. After my major surgery, the first day I watched animal hospital, the next Project Runway, and the next House. That tells something about your brain capacity after a surgery...
That would be the painkillers. The heavier-duty ones say not to operate heavy machinery, and never mention that most humans happen to be heavy machinery.
Speaking as your nurse.....bientotOctober 29 2010, 08:18:13 UTC
Unfortunately, that crap about being up and walking and deep breathing? It's all true. Good painkillers are good too - but narcotics are (sorry) constipating, and so is inactivity, so prune juice and/or metamucil and walking are your new best friends.
About the balloon and the glue - just be glad you're not sliced and diced and held together with needle and thread!
At least they didn't sprinkle you with glitter while they were playing with the glue....
My husband's had three lots of abdominal surgery in the past two years (he now has two belly-buttons O.O) - and his useful tips are: do all the exercises your surgeon tells you to; carry a cushion at all times so you can hold it over your wound when you cough/sneeze/laugh; to walk as much as you can (he has a pedometer so he can make sure he's doing a bit more each day) but don't be afraid to carry a stick for security/sympathy; once you're up to leaving the house use fun excursions to encourage you to walk to take your mind of the discomfort; watch/read things that makes you smile - natural narcotics - and make every friend and family member you encounter give you presents. Lots of presents.
Well done on getting to the other side. You're awesome. I hope your life post-horace is wonderful and pain-free!
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Also, i'm pretty sure the glue will hold till those incisions are healed. The bloaty feeling? Was definitely weird, much less waking up after the surgery. i was all WTF? I'm MISSING HOURS HERE. A bizarre hole in my sense of time passing. I still spent the next two days mostly sleeping because of the darvocet my doc gave me, but it worked. Then i got frustrated with the fuzzy brain it gave me and stopped taking it. But the pain? Didn't exist for those few days, so yes. i had fuzzy brain for that long at least. After that? bearable.
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I had access to absolutely no painkillers at all. But I get my stitches out in a week, along with my test results. Here's to a negative for lymphoma! *cheers!*
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About the balloon and the glue - just be glad you're not sliced and diced and held together with needle and thread!
And congratulations - the worst is over!! :)
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My husband's had three lots of abdominal surgery in the past two years (he now has two belly-buttons O.O) - and his useful tips are: do all the exercises your surgeon tells you to; carry a cushion at all times so you can hold it over your wound when you cough/sneeze/laugh; to walk as much as you can (he has a pedometer so he can make sure he's doing a bit more each day) but don't be afraid to carry a stick for security/sympathy; once you're up to leaving the house use fun excursions to encourage you to walk to take your mind of the discomfort; watch/read things that makes you smile - natural narcotics - and make every friend and family member you encounter give you presents. Lots of presents.
Well done on getting to the other side. You're awesome. I hope your life post-horace is wonderful and pain-free!
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