Whoop Whoop! I'm home, well I was home last night, but crashed on the sofa as soon as I got in. As far as I'm concerned that hospital is amazing. I've had major surgery, had minimal effects from the anesthetic, mostly pain free and out of bed within 12 hours. I was using crutches and discharged within 36 hours. I didn't even get a chance to use my new pyjamas as I was encouraged to wear normal loose clothes to help me to feel more in control. Amazing! The care was fantastic too, they couldn't do enough to help, and the doctors were all gorgeous.
I'm now limping around the house without the crutches, I'm limping because they had to chisel a chunk of bone from my pelvis to make into the graft for my neck. The hip hurts more than the neck. I have a large dressing on my neck and one on my hip. Numerous holes where I had drips and other injection sites. 4 in my foot because my vein in my hand collapsed and the anesthetist couldn't get to anywhere at the top half of my body due to two surgeons working on me, so he had to find a vein in my foot. The bruising is starting to come out, I am going to look as if I have done a round with Mike Tyson soon and my wound sites are itching!
The decompression of the spinal cord has already worked for the pain and stinging in my hands, my shoulder muscles are tense, but not rock hard any more. As I wean off the painkillers and other drugs in the next month I will find out how well the operations worked. So far though, I can't praise the surgeons, staff and the hospital enough.
So I'm back. I won't start fasting yet, as my body is telling me weird things at the moment. I'm ravenous, but can only eat small portions which would make fasting hard to do. So I'm filling up on protein and calcium rich foods to help with repair and bone building and will get as much sun as I can for the vitamin D to help the conversion of the calcium into bone.
I don't know if its the remains of the morphine, or just plain relief that I came out of surgery with none of the horrid things I was expecting to happen, but I'm ecstatic about the results.
Thank you all for the good wishes you sent me. They may be virtual, but they help tremendously to know that you have friends and family that care for you.
I'm now limping around the house without the crutches, I'm limping because they had to chisel a chunk of bone from my pelvis to make into the graft for my neck. The hip hurts more than the neck. I have a large dressing on my neck and one on my hip. Numerous holes where I had drips and other injection sites. 4 in my foot because my vein in my hand collapsed and the anesthetist couldn't get to anywhere at the top half of my body due to two surgeons working on me, so he had to find a vein in my foot. The bruising is starting to come out, I am going to look as if I have done a round with Mike Tyson soon and my wound sites are itching!
The decompression of the spinal cord has already worked for the pain and stinging in my hands, my shoulder muscles are tense, but not rock hard any more. As I wean off the painkillers and other drugs in the next month I will find out how well the operations worked. So far though, I can't praise the surgeons, staff and the hospital enough.
So I'm back. I won't start fasting yet, as my body is telling me weird things at the moment. I'm ravenous, but can only eat small portions which would make fasting hard to do. So I'm filling up on protein and calcium rich foods to help with repair and bone building and will get as much sun as I can for the vitamin D to help the conversion of the calcium into bone.
I don't know if its the remains of the morphine, or just plain relief that I came out of surgery with none of the horrid things I was expecting to happen, but I'm ecstatic about the results.
Thank you all for the good wishes you sent me. They may be virtual, but they help tremendously to know that you have friends and family that care for you.
- nice to be back home so quick
