Yee and Haw

YeeHaw I got me a band!  And something in there is pulling like crazy! Ouch I say!  Day by day it's getting easier though. I was sent home with an abdominal binder and that seems to help moving around for sure. Last night I slept in the bed -not well, but in the bed. That pain medicine sure is something else. It does it's job but I can't remember anything!

Day o surgery I was pretty nervous. Got up for my shower to wash with the antibacterialmicrobial soap and who decides to come to town? You guessed it. Can't do anything without Flo showing up. I was so damn mad that it took my mind off everything else! So we left for the hospital at 4:30am ish. Got there at 5:45 -no shuttle service until 6:30 so we had to hoof it in to the hospital 17 degrees! I was fully awake! Got there and signed in and all the hub bub. They took me to my little curtain prep area, I said bye to the Hubs, and they gave him all my clothes.  They then say no ma'am you cannot have that tampon. I said bite me. They said no really, sorry, but here is a giant surf board. (Moms, you soo know what I'm talking about - the giant 12 inch by 1 inch pad they give you after you've had a baby)  Yeah, surfing. So then I'm questioned and gowned and iv'd -and shaved?!?! What the???? If I had known that a Class III shave was in order I WOULD HAVE DONE IT MY SELF! Not with clippers that had a dead battery. It was as though someone was tweezing at high speed. That my friends, was pain.  So with the mortification of the day out of the way 1) flo 2) violation with bad trimmers, lets start the handsome man parade.   Seriously, ridiculously cute men were nurses, nurse anaesthetists, PA-C, and so on.  I just started asking for a lot of medication. I didn't want to have memory of anything else!!

And so I didn't. Until I was sort of waking up and someone called me tacky. I said -well I didn't dress myself now did I?  Turns out it was Tachy - like heart rhythm or something. But I'm groovy and they had a giggle. I'm not a good waker upper. Hubs didn't get to see me until 11:45 -and he was told 8:30 so he was semi-worried.  Once they had the ol pain controlled they said I could get up, then I could go home! I was supposed to stay overnight but they let me peel! I'm so glad because that would have sucked. On another loverly note I sort of remember signing paperwork for some blood work because my surgeon cut himself with my scalpel. hmmm...should I have more concern about this? Interesting.  It was a hell of a day.

So there is the debrief on the big day! It went well. I even baked a birthday cake for my husband the next day. Mind you that was all I did ;)