hensylee
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Ross, you forgot Bill. And all y'all control freaks make the rest of us crazy, you know that, don't you. lol
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Tim,
I didn?t wake up with a breathing tube in place. And I don?t think I was really ?out of it? from the time they brought me to ICU. My son and husband were there when I got to ICU... they let them stay as long as they wanted to. I have to say that it probably is a good idea to warn your family that you may not look so wonderful right away. My son, a freshman in college at the time was there when I got to ICU. I'll never forget the tears in his eyes as he leaned over and told me he loved me. Although I didn't have a breathing tube in place, there were tubes in every other opening of my body and some stuck in places there had never been openings before!
The most painful thing I remember is right after they got me to ICU they wanted an X-ray for some flippin reason. When they rolled me over to get the X-ray thingy under my body... I did say.... OUCH! The other really rotten thing was being thirsty! I have never been so incredibly thirsty in my life..... I?ll never forget the nurse catching my son slipping me extra ice chips... and telling him.... ?son, you don?t want your Mama to throw up.... that would be a REALLY, REALLY bad thing.? He had just watched me go through the thing with the x-ray.... soooo even he got kinda stingy with the ice chips after that. lol
None of it was nearly as bad as I expected it to be. If you have lots of relatives and friends coming by to visit.... I'd tell them not to bring flowers....... believe me... you DO NOT wanna sneeze! That's a big time OUCHIE.
I didn?t wake up with a breathing tube in place. And I don?t think I was really ?out of it? from the time they brought me to ICU. My son and husband were there when I got to ICU... they let them stay as long as they wanted to. I have to say that it probably is a good idea to warn your family that you may not look so wonderful right away. My son, a freshman in college at the time was there when I got to ICU. I'll never forget the tears in his eyes as he leaned over and told me he loved me. Although I didn't have a breathing tube in place, there were tubes in every other opening of my body and some stuck in places there had never been openings before!
The most painful thing I remember is right after they got me to ICU they wanted an X-ray for some flippin reason. When they rolled me over to get the X-ray thingy under my body... I did say.... OUCH!
The other really rotten thing was being thirsty! I have never been so incredibly thirsty in my life..... I?ll never forget the nurse catching my son slipping me extra ice chips... and telling him.... ?son, you don?t want your Mama to throw up.... that would be a REALLY, REALLY bad thing.? He had just watched me go through the thing with the x-ray.... soooo even he got kinda stingy with the ice chips after that. lolNone of it was nearly as bad as I expected it to be. If you have lots of relatives and friends coming by to visit.... I'd tell them not to bring flowers....... believe me... you DO NOT wanna sneeze!
That's a big time OUCHIE.
Ahhh... Sneezing
Ahhh... Sneezing
At all costs... DON'T DO IT! My mantra last summer, after my surgery, was "Ah-choo, OUCH!" And coughing hurts too, but you sorta have to do that . The day that you sneeze and DON'T say "ouch" is the day you know you're truely recovered.
As for immediately after the sugery: I DID have the breathing tube in when I woke up. After my first surgery they had my hands tied down so I wouldn't pull the tube out (I was in a children's hospital) and it drove me NUTS. My husband (at the time we weren't married) had to remind me to breathe. Finally they took it out. It was NOT a pleasant experience, but I lived to tell about it, so it's not all bad. After my second surgery, I remember telling myself every time I became conscious to BREATHE. The thing that always came to my head was "If you want to get that blasted tube out, you have to breathe on your own." Or something along those lines. For the most part, my days in ICU are very hazy at best. I remember bits and pieces. I know that at some point PT came in and got me out of bed to sit in a chair (still with all my tubes in place, except the breathing tube) and sponge me off. But I remember little of the actual getting in and out of the bed. I also barely remember how I got from ICU to the floor, though I am told I got myself over to the other bed on my own. There are complete conversations that I had in those first few days that I have no recolection of. It's sorta creepy. My mother always comments that I seemed so lucid and she can't understand why I don't remember it. Oh, well...
Ahhh... Sneezing
At all costs... DON'T DO IT! My mantra last summer, after my surgery, was "Ah-choo, OUCH!" And coughing hurts too, but you sorta have to do that
. The day that you sneeze and DON'T say "ouch" is the day you know you're truely recovered.As for immediately after the sugery: I DID have the breathing tube in when I woke up. After my first surgery they had my hands tied down so I wouldn't pull the tube out (I was in a children's hospital) and it drove me NUTS. My husband (at the time we weren't married) had to remind me to breathe. Finally they took it out. It was NOT a pleasant experience, but I lived to tell about it, so it's not all bad. After my second surgery, I remember telling myself every time I became conscious to BREATHE. The thing that always came to my head was "If you want to get that blasted tube out, you have to breathe on your own." Or something along those lines. For the most part, my days in ICU are very hazy at best. I remember bits and pieces. I know that at some point PT came in and got me out of bed to sit in a chair (still with all my tubes in place, except the breathing tube) and sponge me off. But I remember little of the actual getting in and out of the bed. I also barely remember how I got from ICU to the floor, though I am told I got myself over to the other bed on my own. There are complete conversations that I had in those first few days that I have no recolection of. It's sorta creepy. My mother always comments that I seemed so lucid and she can't understand why I don't remember it. Oh, well...
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Answer in the joy juice ?
Answer in the joy juice ?
I'm just guessing, but I bet those of you who don't remember your respirator tube probably had an anesthetic called Versed (spelling?) This stuff has the remarkable power to cause you to forget most of the experience you have just come through. Being the control freak I am, I will probably bribe both my nurse and my anesthesiolgist to insure my experience is similar to Bonny's.
Answer in the joy juice ?
I'm just guessing, but I bet those of you who don't remember your respirator tube probably had an anesthetic called Versed (spelling?) This stuff has the remarkable power to cause you to forget most of the experience you have just come through. Being the control freak I am, I will probably bribe both my nurse and my anesthesiolgist to insure my experience is similar to Bonny's.
Johnny Stephens
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Yup I know this to be the case for me. I basically have no memory of anything right after my cath procedure the night before. My nurses called the Versed "Milk of Amnesia."
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John Cochran
Tim,
Add me to the list of "control freaks." I was really anxious about the idea of waking up and gagging, not being able to talk, etc. The best thing I did was talk to my surgeon ahead of time about my "control freak/Type A/alpha male" thingie. He laughed and said, "guess what, you're just like all the cardiac surgeons!" I too was given Versed, and I have no memory of the breathing tube or other tubes being removed. They can do wonderful things with these meds, and there is no reason for you to be unnecessarily uncomfortable or anxious. Talk to your surgeon ahead of time...they'll recognize the personality type immediately! And, they will take good care of you.
Best,
--John
Add me to the list of "control freaks." I was really anxious about the idea of waking up and gagging, not being able to talk, etc. The best thing I did was talk to my surgeon ahead of time about my "control freak/Type A/alpha male" thingie. He laughed and said, "guess what, you're just like all the cardiac surgeons!" I too was given Versed, and I have no memory of the breathing tube or other tubes being removed. They can do wonderful things with these meds, and there is no reason for you to be unnecessarily uncomfortable or anxious. Talk to your surgeon ahead of time...they'll recognize the personality type immediately! And, they will take good care of you.
Best,
--John
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medtronic of borg
first time used
first time used
The first time it was used on me I was over sea's in Asia in 1980. I remember nothing, like not even going into the hosptal. Or discharge. But I remember everthing leading up to it and driving home. They mix it with another drug the fda will not allow into the us. It was great!!! But versed also came about in Asia. Although our little nation claims it came up with it. I know it was being used over there because I administered it my sellf to some of my pts. I think the little icon face I have chosen says it all for this wounderful little drug. The other drug has no other use except to errase your memory of something. A little scarry now that I say that.
first time used
The first time it was used on me I was over sea's in Asia in 1980. I remember nothing, like not even going into the hosptal. Or discharge. But I remember everthing leading up to it and driving home. They mix it with another drug the fda will not allow into the us. It was great!!! But versed also came about in Asia. Although our little nation claims it came up with it. I know it was being used over there because I administered it my sellf to some of my pts. I think the little icon face I have chosen says it all for this wounderful little drug. The other drug has no other use except to errase your memory of something. A little scarry now that I say that.
