07:21 Mar 20 2009
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this has a lot of detail and some of it is very grizzly. so you have all been warned.....
i've been having a lot of medical problems. and one of them i really don't know what is causing it.
what i had surgery for on monday was for something relatively minor. what had developed over the past few years is some very thin tubes lined with skin in my lower back and tail bone area (that's why the manx and bobcat jokes over the past week or so.) and this is the second time that i've had this done. but the last time was 18 years ago. and this time one of the tubes was abscessed.
the surgery was in the early afternoon and chad and coreen went with me. coreen drove because her car had much better shocks than chad's.... so we knew that coming home would be better in that car.
so.... i go into the clinic.
they do all the questions and it comes up that chad and i have been trying to have a baby, so i get tested.......
negative...... crap, again.
i get the i.v. put in and they start to prep me, tubes down the throat to help with the breathing and all.
at about 4pm, the nurse stated to try to wake me up. i didn't want to wake up.... i talked to her a bit, but wouldn't open my eyes. i didn't do that until chad came in the room.
everything was fixed and out of me. the wound was left open. that's how the treat this kind of surgery. it helps it keep from happening again. i know that it sounds nasty, but it does help. there is a plug of gauze and then the bandage over it. and it's supposed to drain down from there. that's how it heals. it feels really gross too.
i get home and go right to the sofa and pass out.
at about 7pm i woke up.... and was covered in blood. i was a bit woozy, but not that bad.
i called the surgeon and got a hold of him in less than five mins.
i have changed my cloths and set them to soak out the blood at the point. but i'm starting to bleed through what i have on again.
the doctor says to meet him over at o'connor hospital as soon as i can and that he will call a head to make sure that i get it.
chad is scared and who could blame him for that.
i try to call my mom.... no luck... she's on the phone.
i call my brother and he and his wife meet us at the hospital. i send a few texts to people that i promised that i could keep updated. mind you, i know that i forgot a lot of people and i'm sorry about that. with the amount of blood that i lost, i couldn't even think clearly.
elisa and smash where in the area and head over to the hospital to keep chad company.
by the time that i got to the hospital, my brother was doing his bouncy agitated coyote bit full force. he had been trying my mother the whole time and no luck.... he drives off to get her off the phone and my sister in law and chad take me into the emergency....
i say that i just had surgery and that i'm bleeding.... um... a lot.
my vitals are taken and i'm rushed right in. i was more than a bit disoriented at this point in time. i couldn't remember things. i was very pale and shaking badly. i was even having a hard time walking in a straight line, yeah i was very tippy.....
i was put into a room in triage..... chad with me.
i start to change into the dressing gown and start to bleed on the floor and i make a total mess out of the bed.
i start to shake worse and worse and i'm wanting to fall asleep. chad does everything to keep me awake. the nurses thought that i may be in shock, but i wasn't. i wasn't cold at all, if anything i felt really hot at that point.
chad has to leave the room for a bit to get something, i don't remember at all what it was..... but when he came back he told me that my mother was there and so was smash and elisa.
the surgeon came in and had chad leave the room. there was just not enough room for him in there with four nurses, the doctor and everything.
here's where it gets a bit bad.....
when the bandage was coming off for the first time one of the nurses said that i may need a blood transfusion. there was just blood everywhere.... i could just feel it.
one of the nurses held my hand through the whole thing trying to keep me calm.....
now i can hear what's going on out in the rooms next to me. there is a five month old baby on one side. and there is a woman with a cough on the other side. this will all come into the story a bit later.
i was given about two dozen shots to numb the pain that i was in and to take the plug in the wound out. this was the most pain that i had been in all day. each shot was so painful to the point that i was screaming. i was pushing my face right into the bed to muffle the screams to that i would bother the baby, but i couldn't help it. now if you know me, you know that i'm not the kind of person that screams..... well, i was..... and a lot.
i have no idea how long i was screaming and crying but once the meds kicked in, i couldn't feel much of anything in my back, but the one nurse kept holding on to me because i was still shaking badly.
by the time that they got the plug out, cleaned all the blood out and all the clotting out, the bleeding had stopped.... it just stopped. no idea why. the doctor spent about ten mins or so trying to find out what had just happened. he was talking me through the whole thing so that i knew what was going on.
he bandaged me back up and said that he would come back and check on me in about a half an hour.
now for the funny part.
i'm numb so i'm not feeling much of anything. i'm still shaking some, but not as badly. they have bundled me up, or tried to.
i had mentioned that there was a baby on one side of me and a woman with a cough on the other.
even with my screaming, the baby didn't cry. i thought that i would have been bothering the little thing, but i didn't. he/she must have been very sick for him/her not to cry with me screaming. but not a peep.
the woman with the cough, once i had settled down, i would hear her having a fit that i was screaming and was making so much noise. and why couldn't they keep me quiet so she could get some peace while she was first coming in emergency. bitch.
she keeps fussing about everything. i think that she's making far more noise than i was because now the baby is crying.
one of the nurses that had been helping me goes into her room and take some blood. i know because i could hear the whole thing.
"i'm going to need a blood transfusion. you took to much blood."
"um, i took only 30 ml of blood."
"i want a transfusion"
"i just took an ounce of blood."
now, she was screaming at him. i don't remember just what she said to him. but i know that he had had it with her.
this is what he finally said to her: "the young woman that was screaming when you first came in lost a lot of blood. i mean a lot of blood. she was screaming from pain and was actually trying to keep from screaming. i really thought that she was going to need that transfusion. but she didn't. she was more worried about the mess of blood that she was making and all that she wanted was to have someone hold her hand. she didn't fuss about anything. and now, she's trying to rest after all of that. if she can handle that with grace and sweetness, you can handle having an ounce of blood being drawn."
i wanted to laugh.
right after that, chad came in to help me get dress. then my mother came in and i was released.
from what i've heard, smash really helped keep my mother calm. and elisa helped chad a lot too. coreen had called my aunt who is a doctor and got a bit of info that helped calm everyone down.
but now, i'm still hurting a bit, but not so bad. i'm draining and healing. it's a mess, but it's supposed to be doing that.
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Fizbop
05:14 Apr 01 2009
Bleh earthquake