MM2004
07-18-2011, 03:22 PM
Normally, I do not start threads like this, but frankly, I am bored and have been for the past 6 days after what should have been an 'easy' and short recovery after surgery last Tuesday.
That said, I went in for an umbilical hernia repair - open surgery with a mesh, last Tuesday morning at 10:30AM.
Woke up in recovery, then on to post-op where Charlotte was waiting.
She gets me back to my place, took a couple of vicodins as prescribed, lounged around then went to bed around 8:00PM.
I woke up at 3:00AM suffering from upper body muscle spasms that were very, very painful thus prompting a call to my surgeon at 3:30AM.
Him not knowing the cause, I reclined in the couch and barely slept as the spasms started to subside.
My doctor advised me to stop taking the vicodin, and called in a script for ultram that Wednesday afternoon.
I took a few of those as prescribed, and went to bed around 10:00PM.
Thursday morning, I got up and put the coffee on around 5:45AM and noticed I had small bumps covering my entire stomach and underside of both my arms.
I discontinued the ultram, and began taking benadryl and motrin for the bumps and soreness.
Managing Thursday without too much discomfort, I get up Friday and the bumps are still there. Stomach is swollen, brusied and hard to do the simple things we take for granted; bending over, turning around, sitting down, standing up, etc..
Around 11:00AM, i fell asleep on the couch for about 3 hours until Charlotte arrived and after she left, fell back asleep until 6:30 or so. Got up, felt horrible, had a small bite to eat then took my temp.
101.5 deg. Great.
Got into bed at 8:00PM and slept until 7:00AM the next morning. Fever normal, soreness worse than the day before. Bumps starting to fade however. Cool!
Charlotte came over later that Saturday morning, and we went to Kroger for a few items for dinner.
When I opened the trunk to the Fusion, it swung open, hitting me in my stomach that had me bent over against the quarter panel in preparation of becoming physically ill.
Finally gathered my composure and we made it home without any further incident.
We went to bed around 10:30 as I started suffering from sharp pains in both my left and right sides forcing me to sleep in one position - on my right side.
Kept waking up thru the night as I could not get comfortable.
Contacted the surgeon that was on call Sunday morning and explained to him what was going on and he could not give a definitive answer as to the cause or causes of my issues. He added that this was a 'general surgical procedure that is very common although I fell on the very far end of the bell curve for recovering patients.
Once again, just sat around all day doing nothing. Although the sharp pains in my sides did slowly go away.
Last night was the first night I slept pretty well since the day after the surgery.
I met with my surgeon this afternoon at 12:45PM as scheduled.
Healing looks good, bruising is normal, the bumps on my stomach may be caused from surgery prep, and still no definitive answers.
The good part (finally) is I feel so much better today than the past 5 days, and has been a constant struggle that has managed to wear me out.
I hope to return to work this Wednesday as I am going crazy just sitting here doing nothing!
Thanks for reading.
Mike.
That said, I went in for an umbilical hernia repair - open surgery with a mesh, last Tuesday morning at 10:30AM.
Woke up in recovery, then on to post-op where Charlotte was waiting.
She gets me back to my place, took a couple of vicodins as prescribed, lounged around then went to bed around 8:00PM.
I woke up at 3:00AM suffering from upper body muscle spasms that were very, very painful thus prompting a call to my surgeon at 3:30AM.
Him not knowing the cause, I reclined in the couch and barely slept as the spasms started to subside.
My doctor advised me to stop taking the vicodin, and called in a script for ultram that Wednesday afternoon.
I took a few of those as prescribed, and went to bed around 10:00PM.
Thursday morning, I got up and put the coffee on around 5:45AM and noticed I had small bumps covering my entire stomach and underside of both my arms.
I discontinued the ultram, and began taking benadryl and motrin for the bumps and soreness.
Managing Thursday without too much discomfort, I get up Friday and the bumps are still there. Stomach is swollen, brusied and hard to do the simple things we take for granted; bending over, turning around, sitting down, standing up, etc..
Around 11:00AM, i fell asleep on the couch for about 3 hours until Charlotte arrived and after she left, fell back asleep until 6:30 or so. Got up, felt horrible, had a small bite to eat then took my temp.
101.5 deg. Great.
Got into bed at 8:00PM and slept until 7:00AM the next morning. Fever normal, soreness worse than the day before. Bumps starting to fade however. Cool!
Charlotte came over later that Saturday morning, and we went to Kroger for a few items for dinner.
When I opened the trunk to the Fusion, it swung open, hitting me in my stomach that had me bent over against the quarter panel in preparation of becoming physically ill.
Finally gathered my composure and we made it home without any further incident.
We went to bed around 10:30 as I started suffering from sharp pains in both my left and right sides forcing me to sleep in one position - on my right side.
Kept waking up thru the night as I could not get comfortable.
Contacted the surgeon that was on call Sunday morning and explained to him what was going on and he could not give a definitive answer as to the cause or causes of my issues. He added that this was a 'general surgical procedure that is very common although I fell on the very far end of the bell curve for recovering patients.
Once again, just sat around all day doing nothing. Although the sharp pains in my sides did slowly go away.
Last night was the first night I slept pretty well since the day after the surgery.
I met with my surgeon this afternoon at 12:45PM as scheduled.
Healing looks good, bruising is normal, the bumps on my stomach may be caused from surgery prep, and still no definitive answers.
The good part (finally) is I feel so much better today than the past 5 days, and has been a constant struggle that has managed to wear me out.
I hope to return to work this Wednesday as I am going crazy just sitting here doing nothing!
Thanks for reading.
Mike.