Hi all this is CINDYLU and just thought I would let you all know that I made it through surgery last Tuesday. THANK GOD FOR EPIDURALS! haha. My husband was quite impressed with my ablilities he told everyone "you would never know she just had major surgery" that made me proud. I stayed the first night in ICU and had my co-workers take care of me, so you know I had to show them what a good patient I could be. They were impressed
Dr. Bailey told me "you should go home saturday but I'll let you go home a day early since you're a nurse" I was like wait a minute I'm a mom too. I honestly didin't want to see what my house looked like when I got home.
Sure enough when I got home I was not happy. It wasn't a disaster, I just want things done my way and they weren't--I have slowly been letting go of the control issues but it is difficult. You would be impressed with my progress though.
Anyway, I have done things since I have been home that I am not supposed to..... my MIL came over and used my bathroom and I was humiliated because of the way it looked, not that she would care, but still I went in there after she left and cleaned it . Boy did I regret that, I was beat.
What kind of pain control were you guys sent home on? My sister in law had a Duragesic patch. I had some NASTY liquid Lortab. It took me ten minutes to take that stuff it was so awful.