Hi all of you wonderful people! Tomorrow will be one week post op. What a week!
I have begun writing a number of times but would fall asleep. So I hope I have not sent anything unfinished!
My surgery went well and it ends up that it is the only thing that has gone well. I had the spinal block and sedation and I can remember awakening from the sedation and saying, "I want some more of that." My next question was, " How long did it take? " Three hours.
Turns out I needed a great deal of bone grafting and they used someone else's bones also. So I was put on a no weight bearing restriction for 6 weeks. I am just glad they did not use the dogs bones. Yes, he was wandering around the room with a sign around its neck that read, "Will Donate Bones For Some Of That Sedative."
Such fun sedation is!
Fast forward, all was well until one nurse changing my sheets decided to force me to rollover on my sides, even my 10 inch incision side! I kept telling her I could stand up or sit in the chair but she just kept on saying, "You are fine." My body was screaming in pain and she even refused to give me a pillow between my legs!
I became irate from pain and fear. I demanded to speak with someone above that nurse and also wanted an xray.
My surgeon was not there.
Ultimately, my surgeon's PA told me that an xray would not be justified and I told her that I was not asking, I was demanding. I said that I suffered excruciating pain for a year and a half because a surgeon messed up and there is no way that I could endure that again just because some nurse wanted to roll my body back and forth!
I also added that I was part of the medical team and as a matter of fact, I AM THE MOST IMPORTANT MEMBER ON THE MEDICAL TEAM!
Later, me still crying, someone came in the room and and supposedly took an xray and then I was told there was no damage.
Now I am in a skilled nursing rehab facility. All seemed well until I fell. I FELL. It is amazing how many staff who treated me nicely prior to the fall, then act out angrily towards me after I fell. They treated me poorly and at one point they left me on the floor sprawled out without the courtesy of a blanket!
The leg of my walker tangled up with the leg of the toilet raiser that sits over the toilet. I felt the fall beginning to gain momentum so I grabbed the safety bar and my walker and my body flew almost a half circle along with my walker while I crashed into the bathroom door all the while making sure that my surgery leg hit nothing, but my good leg took the hit. Xrays showed everything was fine, but just in case, I will see my surgeon two days from now.
For over two days I did not receive what was promised to me, a wheel chair and a bedside toilet, which would have been safer for me instead of hopping on one leg everywhere.
So there you have it. In less than a week. I even forgot to pack my pajamas! Thank God for my friend near here as she loaned hers to me.
Sorry I could not write about a positive experience. Today I went to physical and occupational therapy and it was good.
I had better go before my pain meds kick in.
💛💙💜💚❤
Dawn, USA
