What a fun experience…

Last week I had surgery Septoplasty (divated septum) and nasal polyps removal. What a fun experience…oh, not really! I liked my nurses. They were funny and made me more at ease. It’s the uncertainty that get you nervous… it is surgery. I know everything is going to be okay but then you start to think “what if”. My husband took me in, we waited and waited and then finally got called back into the prep room - changed into a very stylish outfit, hospital gown with matching booties and hair net. The best part is when they get the blanket out of the oven and put it on you,…so warm! J The anesthesiologist came over and talk to us and then soon after that, they wheeled me away. My husband told me to “have fun”! How sweet of him. Once in the room I had to move from the gurney to the operating table. My leg must have been nervous because it kept shaking. *Ha!* They had to tube me because they can’t have the face mask on you for oxygen and work on your nose. They gave me the mask with the knock out meds and told me to breathe it in. I don’t know why but all of a sudden, I started crying. The nurse told me everything will be okay. I told her I know. I think maybe my nerves got the best of me and the medicine kicked me in over drive.

The next thing I remember was a bunch of noise and my name being repeated over and over. The nurse was telling me what seemed like a hundred instructions very fast. The only part I remember was that I am to squat if I need to pick up something or tie my shoe and not to bend over. Soon after that my husband came in and then I got in the wheelchair to go out to the car.

So, how did the rest of the week go? I didn’t sleep much, especially the first few days. I also stayed on the couch because I needed my head to be propped up. I had to take pain medication and antibiotics. The pain medicine made me nauseous. My mom came over the next day to “watch me” because he was going to be out most of the day. It was nice because she made homemade chicken vegetable soup and Spanish rice. YUM! I really didn’t eat much. I did have a lot of popsicles. That felt good….because they had to tube in my throat was sore. That’s the “added bonus” they don’t tell you about.

At the end of the week I had to go in and get the tubes and packing taken out. He took the tubes out first and then sprayed something in there to numb it up and then reclined the chair way back. He said to keep my eyes open, not to move and not cough. What an awful and uncomfortable feeling. It did hurt. But it was done relatively quickly.

I took off of work Monday and Tuesday and was able to “work from home” the rest of the week. Fortunately it was a slow week. My boss told me that I didn’t have to worry about anything, but I didn’t want to get too far behind. Plus who wants to use PTO (paid time off) for actually being sick.

I am back to work today. I am feeling much better but not yet “best”. I still have the feeling of pressure. I am also getting this hurt twinge. It must be the nerves healing. I found out this morning that I can not wear sunglasses yet. The pressure is too much. Each day is better then the next. The one thing this past week that I have been happy about it that I have not sneezed!! I can’t imagine even doing that then or right now.

Well, the work day, has ended. I just wrote this to post and now the 27 mile trek home. I will stop at the bank and then to the market, to pick up a couple of things to go with dinner.