Surgery recovery of 4 days.....Rant

[horsejody]

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You got to spend the night in the hospital!!!!!!! They sent me home the same day!!!!!! The first 2 weeks are the hardest. Mine was 5 weeks ago today, and I feel pretty good.

 

[lizardz]

Wow - you guys did it wrong. I had mine earlier this year and threw up everything they tried to feed me for three days. They wouldn't let me go home until I could keep food down for 24 hours, so I was in hospital for 5 days.
Seriously, though, you really need to get some help. Do you have any neighbors that could help you out even for a few hours. And the advice about taking Motrin in place of the pain meds is good. You could probably get your doctor to prescribe 800 mg. Ibuprofen, if you wanted, or just take 800 mg. every 8 hours (which is what I did). Helps the pain, but none of the loopiness (sort of miss the loopiness). It only took me a couple of weeks before I was feeling better. The doctor said to take 6 weeks off work, but I only took three, tired easily, but felt well enough to do most things. I hope you are able to find some help, and are feeling better soon.

 

[horsejody]

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I was throwing up. It didn't matter.

 

[debilorrah]

Geez Amber!!!!! You need to take care of yourself. Put Hayden on the floor. Where is David?????

 

[DuckLady]

I was kept in the hospital for 4 days after my hyst.

The insurance person came to the h ospital and had a fit, askign the nurse why I was still there. (Right outside my door)
The nurse first said genteely that I had not accomplished certain functions necessary to my being released.

The insurance person kept persisting and finally the aggravated nurse said (And this was a NUN in a Catholic hospital)

"Look, she hasn't farted yet. We won't let her go until she does." I about fell off the bed laughing.

 

[horsejody]

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OMG! All I had to be doing was breathing before I was sent home! The bills for it are huge too. Insurance will pay most, but I will have to pay about $2500. What really torques me is that I know a woman that had it done in the same hospital that won't pay a dime. She can afford insurance but won't pay for it and just walks in the door and gets it all for free. The deadbeat got to stay in the hospital for a week because she didn't have any other adults living in her home. Since I have a husband, I was shoved out the door the same day. The parasite got to stay. I'm sure that's why my bill was so high. I had to pay for my surgery and the deadbeat's. I'm sorry for ranting on somebody ele's thread. I'll shut up now.

 

[crzychickenlady]

Thanks for all the advice you guys.

I actually could have stayed in the hospital for 3 days had I not pushed myself to do the functions required to go home...

I was throwing up but hiding it from my nurse, lol......I couldn't be in the hospital for 3 days, no way! I have the baby to take care of and I didn't want anyone to have to take off anymore work than they had to.....Seems I'm always thinking of others before myself.

I've always been this hard headed "super mom"...as David calls me. (he's the baby's dad and my old man) I just don't have time to be "down"...BUT let me tell ya....this has knocked my butt DOWN!

I do have a little bit of help here and there, my mom helps when she can and David, but we don't live together and he works too.

I was told while I was in the hospital that Hayden (the baby) is very spoiled, that I spoil him too much, lol. They were right! I didn't realize how much attention I was giving him until I couldn't do it! He's very spoiled, but not usually a fussy baby, he's very good if given attention alot. However, he is a bit...sheltered....I hate that term, but, he will only go to certain people without screaming his head off and those people are, me, my mom and David....So that makes it very hard to get any other outside help.

I really don't have many friends other than my online friends who are millions of miles away.

I'm doing my very best to take it easy. I woke this morning in EXTREME pain, i barely crawled out of bed to get my 9 yr old daughter off to school and then crawled back into bed with that bay, been letting him sleep with me. I woke up to 2 phone calls 2 hours later of people checking on me, one was David, and I was STILL in pain. I literally crawled out of bed and to the bathroom and broke down and took my pain meds.
The pain has subsided a bit but I can barely stand up straight to walk. I can get around ok as long as I don't straighten up, have to hunch over.

The only way I can describe the pain is...well..it feels like labor contractions, but it's a sharper pain. Like a piercing pain in my belly that lasts a few seconds then subsides, but during that pain, i cannot move, speak or barely breath! I think it MAY be gas but I'm not sure, I've never had severe gas pains before so I dunno

I'm not gonna call the doctor just yet, the piercing pains have gone away now, just an all over kind of pain now that isn't too bad since I took my meds.....they have me taking Percocet and 800mg Ibuprophen which combined makes me feel REALLY good, LOL!


ETA: LMAO Terrie! They said I had to do that as well, but I lied.

 

[SunAngel]

Sorry you are having such a rough time. Hope your pain eases soon!

I find this strange because my 67 yr old mother just had a hysterectomy done 2 months ago and went home 2 days later. She said she had no pain and except for the little cuts, she would have sworn nothing was done. She had no throwing up, no trouble walking or anything. Said the most she felt was a little pressure in her abdomen. They wouldn't let her drive for a week, which she couldn't understand why, but didn't argue. I was ready to beg my doc for a hyst. after hearing how well she did. My appendectomy seemed much worse and took way longer to recover from.

 

[SarahBeth9394]

Sorry it's been so hard. If y'all don't mind answering I'd like to ask why you needed a hysterectomy. It seems I know more ladies that had to have them than haven't. A few were cancer related and the others were from complications from miscarriage. My mil had complications from the Dalcon shield. Still of all the ladies in my extended family there's only two that haven't had hysterectomies.

 

[horsejody]

Mine was because an ultrasound picked up a large mass on one of my ovaries. It ended up not being cancerous, but they had to remove it to be sure. When you are 47 years old, your kids are grown and having a large ovarian tumor removed, there really isn't any point in leaving anything behind. It's all just spare parts waiting to go bad if they are left behind.