My leukemia's back.

[getaclue]

I too had to google it.

 

[N F C]

@Blooie good to have a plan (and even better to have doctors you like)!

 

[LittleLakePhil]

Ever go swimming... from a kayak and while holding your fishing pole, and wearing your favorite fishing hat?

No

 

[LittleLakePhil]

Love and prayers for all who need them

For sure...

 

[LittleLakePhil]

Good morning Team Rachel. Glad you are recovering well, Deb!

My wound looks “good” to the wound care nurse -easy for her to say I guess. Quite ugly to me.

There was finally some bacteria in the fluid they took during surgery, so I’m on antibiotics. Hope this will finally allow things to start healing. It’s sure been a long 8 months since this whole ordeal started.

 

[LittleLakePhil]

Actually I did some drawing changes for it in 2008 I believe. The room had a prototype for surgeons to check out ... it was pretty cool.

Unfortunately the design staff that was responsible for the design drawings didn't know the process for ISO9001 requirements. Meaning documentation had to be properly labeled with revision status and notes. The design was fine... I was brought in so they could do a final release and sell the product overseas.

I did some digging on youtube and found an excellent video on the surgery itself.... The doctor sits at a computer console and remotely controls the laproscopic tools to perform the surgery....

they tip the patient head down at a 40 degree angle and once the machine is inserted into the patient the abdomen is filled with carbon dioxide to give them working and viewing room. I was on that table for five hours.

with anesthesia coming and going.... the total time was seven... When I came to in recovery though the flu epidemic had overrun the hospital... no beds. So I was in recovery another four or five hours... Had dinner there..

Up and walking the next day but my Sleep apnea had them wanting to watch me another night. So I got to spend two nights in the hospita. Normally they would have sent me home the next morning.

No visits from family except my son.... I was grateful for the sleep. so grateful.

I heard I was going home and sat in the chair by the window and fell asleep in the warm sunshine. I must have slept there four hours.... it felt good.

deb

Glad you slept.... Just hang in there.....

 

[LittleLakePhil]

Good morning Team Rachel. Have a blessed day!

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That's freaking me out..... Look away...

 

[LittleLakePhil]

You kept those puppies a long time Sour! I had mine out when I was 19, impacted. In pain for a week. DDs had theirs out in their mid teens. DD2 took 1 pain killer. She had her ear operated on in November (22 Y/O). They gave her a prescription for opioids, we didn't fill it. She was ok with the alternating Tylenol and Advil regime the doctor gave her.



I had to look at the pictures several times, then decided that one was the mother, not a sister. Jenna must have been only about ten when Ashley was born!

Glad for all you who didn't take the pain killers....I can't get out of bed in the morning without taking one.....I take them all day long and the pain still doesn't go away.... And although they aren't great without them I wouldn't have a life...... They get a bad wrap.
Some of us have no choice. Can't take nsaids cuz chemo destroyed my kidneys......

 

[LittleLakePhil]

CPAP.... Titration.... sleep over with a CPAP machine. monitored to see what settings work for me.... on the 17th. Hopfully I get the machine that night... but for certain They will have me one soon after that.

I am sooo tired.... Tired of waking up gasping for breath. Tired of nightmares where I cant breathe... Now that I know they werent just nightmares or heart attacks... Waking up catch my breath.

deb

Yeah...I hate that.
It's a scary feeling. When I was younger I had sleep apnea real bad...... That being jerked out of sleep to gasp for air always sucked.
As bad as my lungs are now I don't have that same problem these days as much.
But before I lost some weight my reflex was doing the same thing to me.... Acid hits my airway and it contricts.

 

[getaclue]

Phil, I didn't say I've never taken pain killers. I said I didn't need them after my tooth extraction. Yes, I've got a cabinet with varying strengths of pain killers. The chemo used for my breast cancer caused severe neuropathy in my feet. I could not have made it through a day or night without some serious pain relief. As the neuropathy progressed, the doctor increased the strength. I asked about doubling up on the strength I was already taking, and the doctor said no, the main ingredient is mixed with an nsaid, and doubling the dose would double the nsaid. I was to take the stronger dose instead.

It takes time, but the neuropathy does decrease after treatment, but never completely goes away. Sometimes weather changes will trigger a flare up. The degree of pain from the flare up varies, so I dose accordingly.