Hi Everyone!!
This is the first time I have logged onto the computer for 6 weeks!! As you know I had my
operation 5 weeks ago now and did i have problems or what! What was suppose to be an 8 day stay
tunred out to be a 4 week hospital stay - YUK!
The operation went very well. My back is as straight as can be. They ended up going ahead with
the Thoracoplasty - 1.5 inches cut of 4 ribs and the rest of my rib cage being remodelled as I was
so twisted. The operation was the easy part!
I spent one night in ICU then they transferred me back to a normal ward. I wasn't sleeping at all
and was very restless. The next thing I know I was being rushed back to ICU not knowing where I
was (completly out of it). After 2 weeks of really trying to find out what happened - it turned
out I was 5 minutes away from dying of a drug overdose (too much morphine in my body). Thank god
the nurse on duty didn't follow protocol and came to do my ops first - if she went to another room
- I would hve been dead my the time she got to me! So then I was in ICU for another 4 days. This
is where my lungs collapsed and I needed a blood transfusion.
Two weeks after all this happened I was a couple of days away from heading home when my leg started
to hurt. Well - they found a MASSIVE blood clot (DVT) from my right foot to my tummy then all
little ones in my lungs. I had to stay in hospital for another 2 weeks.
I am now home with the lovely THICK WHITE STOCKINGS on for blood clots and which I have to wear for
5 months (summer over here so very happy about that - NOT).
I feel ok - can't do much at 5 weeks post op. What is really bugging my is that i am SO sensitive!!
As soon as anyone comes near me I tighten up and stick my hands otu the back so they don't bump
into me - I hate it.
Is this all the nerves / tendens / veins // muscles starting to mend together?? I realise that I
need to give it 4 months to heal because of the thoracoplasty that I had done as well but sometimes
I feel like I will never get any better. Its really frustrating when you have little children and you CANT DO A THING FOR THEM!!!
As mentioned before - will the nerve, muscle thing get any better?? Also, when I change position when siting in a chair or even lying down, sometimes it feels like the rods are sticking out of my back. Does anyone fweel this strange sensation?
Take care
Kylie-Ann
This is the first time I have logged onto the computer for 6 weeks!! As you know I had my
operation 5 weeks ago now and did i have problems or what! What was suppose to be an 8 day stay
tunred out to be a 4 week hospital stay - YUK!
The operation went very well. My back is as straight as can be. They ended up going ahead with
the Thoracoplasty - 1.5 inches cut of 4 ribs and the rest of my rib cage being remodelled as I was
so twisted. The operation was the easy part!
I spent one night in ICU then they transferred me back to a normal ward. I wasn't sleeping at all
and was very restless. The next thing I know I was being rushed back to ICU not knowing where I
was (completly out of it). After 2 weeks of really trying to find out what happened - it turned
out I was 5 minutes away from dying of a drug overdose (too much morphine in my body). Thank god
the nurse on duty didn't follow protocol and came to do my ops first - if she went to another room
- I would hve been dead my the time she got to me! So then I was in ICU for another 4 days. This
is where my lungs collapsed and I needed a blood transfusion.
Two weeks after all this happened I was a couple of days away from heading home when my leg started
to hurt. Well - they found a MASSIVE blood clot (DVT) from my right foot to my tummy then all
little ones in my lungs. I had to stay in hospital for another 2 weeks.
I am now home with the lovely THICK WHITE STOCKINGS on for blood clots and which I have to wear for
5 months (summer over here so very happy about that - NOT).
I feel ok - can't do much at 5 weeks post op. What is really bugging my is that i am SO sensitive!!
As soon as anyone comes near me I tighten up and stick my hands otu the back so they don't bump
into me - I hate it.
Is this all the nerves / tendens / veins // muscles starting to mend together?? I realise that I
need to give it 4 months to heal because of the thoracoplasty that I had done as well but sometimes
I feel like I will never get any better. Its really frustrating when you have little children and you CANT DO A THING FOR THEM!!!
As mentioned before - will the nerve, muscle thing get any better?? Also, when I change position when siting in a chair or even lying down, sometimes it feels like the rods are sticking out of my back. Does anyone fweel this strange sensation?
Take care
Kylie-Ann
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