Hey guys, had my surgery yesterday with Dr. Craig Fielding. Even though I have not even peeked at the final results yet, I think it's safe to say that he has another satisified customer
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Anyway here are the experiences on the day of.
Drove from London, ON to get there for 10:30. Got there 10 minutes early. Got the gown, changed into and put clothes and valuables away in the bag they give you. I was told my surgery would be at 1pm so sat around and waited.
It actually wasn't too bad as the people there were also a little nervous and very friendly. So we all just sort of took each others minds of stuff by chatting with each other
. Good experience.
Was called at around 12:30 to get my initial readings (blood pressure, temperature) done. Then waited for another hour before I was finally called for the surgery.
They put my bag away in a locker, took my glasses and gave me one of those plastic hats to wear. I think I like not being able to see clearly as this distorted the face of most of the people I interacted with and decreased my embarassment. Btw the worst part in the waiting room was the thirst! All of us in there were sooooo damn thirsty.
Sat outside the OR for 5 minutes had a male nurse talk to me and let me know he works with Dr. Fielding and just gave me the initial info, nice guy. Dr. Fielding came by, took me into the OR, took pictures, drew some lines using the marker. I lay down, chest was covered btw, they sensed I was nervous and were very nice and wanted me to be as comfortable as possible.
The anesthesiologist hooked me up to the IV, got the oxygen (I think) mask, got the good night and 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz I was gone.
Woke up what felt like 2-3 minutes later in the recovery room. I was shivering uncontrolably. Got a pre-warmed blanket. Was still shivering like crazy so was given another blanket. That helped a lot. I was apparently there for 45 mins before I woke up. No pain so far. WAs very very thirsty so I got some ice chips. They don't give you water so you don't throw up. I felt no nausea what so ever btw. I asked to breath deeply in the nose, out the mouth to try and remove the gasses in my body. Was then wheeled 15 mins later to another recovery area where guests are allowed to come and visit.
It was around 3-3:15 then I think. I was there for about 2 hours. Again still very thirsty so I was given some apple juice and a glass of ice water. My throat was very sore and that's a normal effect of the breating tube they put down your throat. I felt some pain there and asked for a pain killer, got some morphine. Oh btw one annoying side effect of morphine is that you have to really push hard when trying to piss, it doesn't seem to want to come out! Morphine dulled the pain, it was just some soreness and some irritation btw, so the pain wasn't too too bad. After 2 hours my brother in law came by we talked and I got dressed. I was leaking a little bit from the back so I was given these pads to soak that up.
The ride back was fun. I had a perceset (sp?) and was pretty talkative and chirpy the whole way back. Got home and talked to my mom and she was happy that I was satisfied and of course releaved that everything went well. Had some soup, juice and bran bread. Btw make sure to eat lots of fiber to avoid constipation, the percs tend to do that to you.
No real pain at that point. The pain killers were working well. I don't see any brusing right now on the top or bottom, the blood dripping has also stopped right now. Will have pics for you guys in a week.
Had another pain killer last night before I slept (tally at 2 now). Got up with a little bit of pain and feeling weak because of lack of food.
I had another perc (tally 3) about 2 hours ago and that really helped the pain (discomfort) go away. So pretty happy right now.
The only annoying thing is the big sponge being so prominent, any suggestions on how to hide this?
Anyway that was long I know, but I like to give details.
Feel free to ask questions
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