Hi everyone. Well the surgery went very good…took biopsy and surgeon expects it to come back clean. \0/ THEN I went to recovery and didn’t recover. Nope. Hours later, still very low BP and very high, erratic pulse rate. They thot there might be a bleed ….but that didn’t make sense, all things considered. I didn’t stay awake more than seconds so I missed the drama around me. Considering how HORRIBLE I was feeling while awake, asleep was better. But medical folks around me didn’t think it was so good. Eventually they caught a problem that was totally unrelated to the actual surgery….except for the stress it put on my system. Got lotsa fluids squeezed into me and a lot of meds pumped in too. [YUK…all those chemicals into my mostly chem-free body. But better than the alternative.]
Finally stable enough to ‘take a room’ for the night…supposed to be outpatient surgery. Woke me up frequently for vitals check [which were improving] and ‘vampire’ more of my blood. Seriously, they watched me very carefully and were very kind. Same the next day and a couple tests added. Things FINALLY straightened out late afternoon and my discharge got under way. Then we had the long drive home which was unpleasant for me but bearable. Pretty dizzy on those mountain roads!!!!
First day back…I was pretty shaky, weak. Today I’m 50% better. That’s the direction I want to go but need to rest carefully. I’ll be fine but now have meds that have nothing to do with the actual surgery….and a new specialist doc I’ll need to see in a week or so. Hope this was a unique set of physical stressors that set this off… and it doesn’t show up EVER again! Thanking God for alert Recovery room folks!!! Thanks for prayers and thinking of me, folks.
OldMtWoman…I’ll catch up later….going to bed earlier these days