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thecoolkid17
Thanks everyone for all the support prior to surgery and i know i will be receiving tons afterwards now that im home. My surgery got bumped last minute to friday morning instead. I came out at 215 in the afternoon and went into recovery room. Don't remember much of anything that night except my throat was dry and any water or ice chips i had i threw up instantly so it was pretty much hell.
Sat morning started off with a nice helping of nausea and vomitting, i remember the nurse saying i slept a healthy two hours straight, but oh well. Did not hold anything down until 2 that afternoon, by dinner i had a clear liquid diet. Family visiting hours were two half hours one in the morning and one in the evening.
Sunday started off good, i was ambulatory with a little assist and moved to full liquid diet. I was still in the recovery room till afternoon when i went up to my own room. I was on morphine in the recovery room and god that stuffs good
I had a full meal sunday night then and slept good.
Woke up monday and felt terrific, deep breathing was going great, i could get up and move around by myself, and they were going to send me home because i felt awesome. ******* MD 1&2 put me on a calcium channel blocker, beta blocker, and nitro patch all within one hour. These are three vasodilators and make your blood pressure plummit, so.....euphoria went out the window and nausea stepped in by afternoon and i was pretty pissed i was not paying attention to what they gave me. I was on perkaset for pain and it was working good. I still felt great by evening and was moving around and no problems.
I took a perkaset at 3 in the morning on an empty stomach and nausea came back all day. Could not hold any liquid down until 2 o'clock on tuesday and the rest of the day i was dehydrated and it was the worst day of my life, period. I was so so miserable and could not bear to do anything. My back was sweating but my arms were cold it was just straight hell. Finally got some fluids in me and went to sleep and switched to Tylenol.
Woke up today and felt little crappy still but started drinking early and moving around and next thing i knew i felt great, ate breakfast and knew i wanted to go home and get out of the hospital once and for all. MD's made their rounds and i told them what i wanted and by 2 o'clock i was sitting in the car with a big smile. I feel great now, the scar is about 4 inches because he didnt crack the whole sternum and its pretty easy to move around and there are no wires. I had a heart spasm when i came out but a nitrodrip in recovery fixed that so now im all good and on the road to recovery Just cannot wait to get back to normal living and being able hug your loved one, turn over in bed, play a game of basketball and all the great joys in life
Thanks again and ill be sure to update on how im feeling
Luke Warner
Sat morning started off with a nice helping of nausea and vomitting, i remember the nurse saying i slept a healthy two hours straight, but oh well. Did not hold anything down until 2 that afternoon, by dinner i had a clear liquid diet. Family visiting hours were two half hours one in the morning and one in the evening.
Sunday started off good, i was ambulatory with a little assist and moved to full liquid diet. I was still in the recovery room till afternoon when i went up to my own room. I was on morphine in the recovery room and god that stuffs good
I had a full meal sunday night then and slept good. Woke up monday and felt terrific, deep breathing was going great, i could get up and move around by myself, and they were going to send me home because i felt awesome. ******* MD 1&2 put me on a calcium channel blocker, beta blocker, and nitro patch all within one hour. These are three vasodilators and make your blood pressure plummit, so.....euphoria went out the window and nausea stepped in by afternoon and i was pretty pissed i was not paying attention to what they gave me. I was on perkaset for pain and it was working good. I still felt great by evening and was moving around and no problems.
I took a perkaset at 3 in the morning on an empty stomach and nausea came back all day. Could not hold any liquid down until 2 o'clock on tuesday and the rest of the day i was dehydrated and it was the worst day of my life, period. I was so so miserable and could not bear to do anything. My back was sweating but my arms were cold it was just straight hell. Finally got some fluids in me and went to sleep and switched to Tylenol.
Woke up today and felt little crappy still but started drinking early and moving around and next thing i knew i felt great, ate breakfast and knew i wanted to go home and get out of the hospital once and for all. MD's made their rounds and i told them what i wanted and by 2 o'clock i was sitting in the car with a big smile. I feel great now, the scar is about 4 inches because he didnt crack the whole sternum and its pretty easy to move around and there are no wires. I had a heart spasm when i came out but a nitrodrip in recovery fixed that so now im all good and on the road to recovery
Just cannot wait to get back to normal living and being able hug your loved one, turn over in bed, play a game of basketball and all the great joys in lifeThanks again and ill be sure to update on how im feeling
Luke Warner
