Surgery Date

Okay, so I am going to try to go back and recap the events that have happened so far. I will start with surgery day.

Jeff and I get to the hospital at about 6am and go to admissions. I sign some paperwork and then get taken up to the surgery waiting area. I got checked in and they got Jeff set up with a restaurant pager for updates. Then they took me back to pre-op alone. I told the person taking me back that I really didn't want to go alone because the IV was the scariest part, so they cleared it for Jeff to come back with me. I did the normal pregnancy test and then got changed into the hospital gown. My nurse came in and had me sign the consents. We talked about getting something for my nerves and she said she would have to start the IV in order to give me anything. So she did the IV, it was really quick and didn't hurt nearly as bad as every other time. Then the anesthesiologist cleared it for me to have some morphine and something for nausea. So after that I was pretty happy go lucky. Dr. Goodlow, the anesthesiologist came in to ask me health history questions and go over the way my anesthesia would go. After that Scheid came in to discuss how the surgery would go, and Maiers came in last. They both signed my hip. Then I went back to the operating room. I was awake, but didn't have my glasses on so I couldn't see much. I did see all the contraptions on the table to hold me in place. The next thing I remember is waking up in recovery, but barely being awake. It seemed like as soon as I woke up they moved me. I also had A LOT of hip pain at this point. I didn't know why. Once I got settled in my room and they were getting all my stuff hooked up, we saw that there was liquid dripping down my arm by my IV, it wasn't connected all the way. So once they got that set, my pain got a lot better. They also put me on oral pain medication to help me through the night because they wouldn't do a basal. So at this point I was really hungry, I was getting Morphine through my PCA pump and taking Norco 10 by mouth. I think I started itching really bad before bed so they gave me something for the itch, but it wasn't benadryl. Jeff left that first night around 7pm and I was awake a lot over night. I had no problem eating at all. I was a little scared about the nurses I had that night because I had two nurses and one of them was new. They couldn't figure out the PCA pump, how to change it. During the night I was able to get one shot through my IV of benedryl to help the itching.