Post OP

I was really groogy when I awoke from being under anaesthesia.  I really wasn't awake.. I was coming out being drugged. I felt myself gag automatically with no warning.   Even though I had no food in my stomach, I remember waking up and vomiting..I felt my head turn to the right side and then the left, spitting up. Then I heard nurses voices and I felt asleep.  I am not sure how long I was asleep,
I heard a nurses voice trying to awake me and I opened my eyes.. I looked around and I feel out.  Right then I heard a voice say "Gosh! She is out like a light". Then after a while, not sure again how long it was, I finally started waking up. I was feeling nauseated and I was in that  "holding room"  as before.  I didn't feel pain even though I was prepared to. I felt sick to my stomach and they
gave me something for it and it made it instantly better. They put a breathing tube down my throat and that hurt the most. Considering I was just cut on. I was thinking that tonight I was really going to feel it once the medicine has worn off.   Once I was completely awake they took me to another room, where I was there alone. It had a bed, tv and chair. My husband and family came back to see
how I was doing, I was still coming out of the effects of the anesthesia and I was still a little nauseated.  Beside my bed, I had graham crackers, peanut butter, seven up.. My mother came in with a
pretty candle.  The nurse eventually came in and asked if I needed to go to the bathroom.. Which I did. I forgot!  Anyway, she helped me to the toilet, undress and go. It wasn't difficult to get out of the bed, but I felt a dizzy but not in pain.  I would have thought that I would feel pretty weird with a stranger helping me in such an "intimate" situation but I really didn't care.  I laid in the bed for a couple of hours, I felt pretty good and ready to go home except for a scratchy throat.  I finally was ready to go home and when I go to the car I had to kind of lay down in the passenger seat and not sit up because that did hurt.

More later..

My Corrective Surgery

I had corrective surgery on March 8, 2007. I was really scared because I never had any surgery before. I talked to the doctor and he sated that it was out-patient so there should be any problems at all.
They would take care of me.  My procedure was a laproscopy.

This is how it went -

I had to stop eating by 12:00 p.m. the previous night and that means no food or water. They told me that I would vomit if I had any food or water in my stomach.
I got there at 6:00 am and the procedure started at about 8:30 a.m. and it took only one hour and a half. They checked me in and my husband and I went into a room
where they made me change clothes to a hospital gown and lay in a bed. When I get nervous I have to pee.. just like a child so I think I peed about 7 times in the adjoining bathroom.
I waited for a while and then a man came in a wheeled me out into another room.  He was really nice and
cracked jokes and made me laugh and feel less nervous. It was surreal just like in the movies where you see the camera following the person on a "gourney???"
being wheeled while doctors are working on them, like ER or something.  While he was wheeling me through the halls, he was telling me that he just got his drivers license and he is going to try not to hit the walls.

We went into a room where there was a lot of people..I guess the "holding" room. Anyway, there were lots of nurses there and people waiting for surgery.  He wheeled me
toward the area where they wanted me and a nurse came over and took my blood pressure, vitals, then another nurse started an IV and was looking for my veins. I have great veins
so it was pretty easy for her..  Can you believe, I was so nervous.. I had to pee again!!!  I tried to forget about it and listen to the nurses talking around me.

This is something that I didn't know.. They take a swab of some anethesia and swab my arm. It numbs that area and when they put in the IV I could feel NOTHING!!!
Amazing, that was great!!

The nurses talked to me and explained everything that was going to happen. That gives me a sense of peace, to have information. I dont like the unknown.. at all.
Before I had the surgery, I looked up the procedure laproscopy to see what they do in the operating room..

Ok. A nurse gave me something like a "valium" in my IV and it only took a couple of minutes to work. Really fast. I forgot about everything, I began to relax and
not care.  Worked like a charm!

Another nurse grabbed my hand and told me that she would be there the entire time with me.

After that, the new guy came and rolled me into the operating room.

It was very cool and sterile looking. They pushed my bed to this stationary table and told me to scoot onto the table, which I did. Something else I didn't know. The
table was stationary and didn't move. Ok. I also noticed that it was a small table. I am not a very big person but it wasn't very wide. I wonder what they do for bigger wider
people?? they wouldn't be able to fit. My arms almost started to dangle but I put the over my waist.

I saw my doctor and he smiled at me and I said hello.

There was three other nurses there and the one that came with me. They started to talk about something wierd - We were in this conversation about snoring..
Do I snore, do they snore.. amusing.  My mind was wondering.

Then I awoke in the recovery room.