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izanmanyzanz · 01-14-2008, 08:20 AM

After the whole IV crap and got settled, my nurse Carol came on duty. She was so wonderful. I asked her for something for my headache and she came in within 15min with something. Its amazing between having a caring nurse and one that is just there doing a job. About an hour later she came took out the catheter. Thank God. I hated that thing. Some time later I was able to get up and go to the restroom and walk around some. That was nice. Well the rest of day consisted of me just up and down, and resting when I could. I did have a problem with my drain, or actually it was the incision, as I started leaking every where. I broke down crying, not sure if I had did something wrong. Really scared. Carol calmed me down and let me know it just happens sometimes. She cleaned me all up and sat with me a few minutes. That really helped, as all my family had gone yesterday back to Pueblo and there was no one with me. I have to say I was surprised that I really had no pain today, just a little discomfort, and that was more from the drain than anything. It's now Christmas Eve and missing my family alot. But due to the insurance all changing, we knew it was going to be like this. Now it's time for the night nurse and aide. God I wishing it would be someone new. I got my wish, but this was one of those prayers you wish had went unanswered. Although the nurse was very nice and apoligized every second I saw her, for what I don't know, she smelt the cigarettes, bad breath something awful, and it took everything I had not to upchuck. Thank goodness I didn't see her much through the night, except later she came in smelly like salsa on top of everything else and I just had to cover my head. The person I did see through most of the night was the aide. I am sorry dear God, but how this woman ever passed any classes is beyond my comprehension. She had to have a bag of rocks in her head. The absolute worst aide I have ever encountered in my life. Somebody needed to give her a few cents to make a penny. If I needed the restroom, she would come in 10 minutes later after of course it is half way running down my leg. She would not even help me up, and seemed to struggle just to hand me the control to bed. Excuse me lady for pissing on your night, no pun intended. When I would be finished in restroom, she tangled up all my damn wires, pulled on my drain numerous times, and then my legs would be shaking so bad that I could not lift them on my own. Did she help? Hell no!!!. Took me about 20 minutes just to get back in bed, and she left the room. Thank God I never fell. I press the call button, tell her I need my leggings hooked back up, she comes in hooks them up and forgets to turn on machine. I am truly blessed not to have gotten any blood clots, because my leggings were never on the entire night. Here comes the morning. I can't wait till she is gone, gone gone!!!!!!!! Merry Christmas. The morning is here and here is a new nurse. I can't remember her name, but very professional and is great, as well as the new aide. Hopefully I get to go home for sure. It is starting to snow, I hope my son and daughter are going to make it okay with the snow. I want to go home. My kids left Pueblo about 10:30 am but didn't get to Skyridge till almost 1pm. My IV came out about 12pm. Got a second shot to prevent blood clots. I did alot of walking around to try and pass the time till the kids got here, the snow was awful. I am glad they made it okay. Dr Chae came in about 1:30pm and is letting me go. YEA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Said he would have let me leave yesterday, but since I live in Pueblo and not Denver, wanted to make sure everything was real good with me. God he is such a great surgeon. Nurse came in and wanted to give me some pain meds before leaving. I didn't want to take them but she said trust me on this one. So I took the meds. Boy oh Boy am I glad I trusted her. Riding in a Blazer on snow pack and bumps was not a pretty picture. Sure wish I had known about the pillow over the stomach then. Oh well, what are you gonna do? Suck it up and put on my big girl pants. About 5:30 pm made it to HOME SWEET HOME!!!!! And to think I was going to try and drive myself home. HAHA, talk about scary!! I would have killed myself for sure. Don't do it, anyone!!! I was really tired, spent about an hour with the family, after all it was Christmas. Then went to bed, hubbby helped me in and that was all she wrote. Slept all night till 9 am on the 26th. Gosh that felt so good.