Hysterectomy is in three hours 45 minutes

Hello All, thank you sooo much for the wonderful support. The docs had the ultra sound ready but the anesthesiologist was an idiot. He poked EVERYWHERE but where I TOLD him! Thank goodness the doc that got my iv started for my mastectomy came by to see all the commotion. She remembered mme. One poke in the RIGHT SPOT and bamb...iv started! After surgery, the head of the dept came to check on  me and I told him that I was not happy with the guy who wouldn't listen. I think he's in trouble for needless needle pokes and rightly so.

I was NOT happy that they would NOT put the blood pressure cuff on my leg. So I picked the left arm below the elbow. Thankfully, I had no reaction of burning and swelling like I had once before. However, it was NOT passed down in report a nd there was no notice on me or in the room about where to place the cuff.

Pain was horrible for 24 hours after. The doc. ordered me a pain pump of morphine that would express the med every six minutes by pressing the button.I had the nurse bitch from hell I remember from my mastectomy and she was so irritated with my pain and complaining I needed to eat so I could take pills. I hope I can swear cuz in my head I was thinking, I am in too much pain to eat bitch, I ahve to have pain under control first, dumbass. I was afraid to do press the button that much that would think I was a drug addict. However, the really cool, male hippey night nurse  said drug addicts come even if they dont have pain, I have pain, so press that button all you want, you can't od. So I pressed that button like crazy!!

Once again I had catheter troubles. I kept getting air pockets. THanks goodness my mom, who is a nursing assistant, noticed that I had no pee coming out. I kept telling her I felt like I had to pee but knew it was like talking to a brick to tell bitch nurse. But my mom pointed it out and here I kept getting air pockets in the line that prohibited urine flow. I suspect this was part of the pain,too. As the bladder swelled, it put pressure on the abdomen.

The morning after, it felt so good to get the packing out (gauze they put up the vaginal area). I felt like it was a magician pulling all kinds of material out his sleeve.. It wasn't as bad as the nurse said til he pulled the very last out. And my wonderful, thoughtful Brian showed up at 5 am to make sure he was there to hold my hand!! What a sweetheart!!

Pain was bad at home. The intestinal gas was terrible!! and I have never had to fart so much in my life!!! I moaned and groaned every time I farted.

Day hot flashes are not much worse than before, but man those night sweats are baaaaddddd...wringing wet then freezing cuz its winter and cold. If you turn the heat up, then worse you know?

My mood got really bad. I felt blah, lifeless. Over the weekend I was crying cuz I didn't feel like myself. I thought, if I have to live like this, then I made a big mistake.  Then I cried over country music. Looking back its pretty funny.

Today is a week out and my sense of humor is back, but man, my head is a bitch on wheels. It just wants to bitch. So I told Brian, my partner, EXACTLY how to handle me, lol, cuz sometimes he is clueless (and admits it) and not a mind reader, so hes doing just fine. 

So its one week out. Pain isn't bad. I had hardly any bloody discharge. Mood is better.

But man, if I could give ANY ADVICE...skip the stool softener and take a laxative. I tried to push bm and that was a baaaad idea. I was taking stool softeners and nothing coming out. Once I took the laxative, it was much better. 

I also found a website called hystersisters.com that is like breastcancer.org but only for ovaries out/hysterectomies. I highly recommend it