>All week long I've been praying for Thursday to come and go, and believe me it did just do that! I honestly am still in a daze as to what happened on Thursday. My arms are all bruised up on both sides because it took the nurse 3 times to get an IV in, not to mention the blood work done earlier in the week, and the calcium draw that I had yesterday. It looks like someone beat the crap out of my arms.
So Thursday morning we were @ the hospital at 9 but of course didn't get taken back till around 10. Filled out lots of paper work and took a pregnancy test. Then they put me in this huge purple gown with all these holes in it. Then they hook the gown up to a heater/cooler and it blows air in it to keep you warm, or cold. So that was nice! Around 10:45 I departed from my husband and was wheeled into the holding room. I tried so hard not to think about what was going to happen to me. I had a blessing the night before from Phil's dad and it offered me much comfort into the procedure, but I have a feeling that I have a long road of recovery ahead of me.
My surgery took about 2 1/2 hours. They took out 9 lymph nodes and 2 of those had cancer in them. I'm really scared as to what is going to happen now. The nurse called me yesterday and gave me that news and said we would discuss more of it at my follow up appointment on Wednesday. She called it papillary carcinoma I've been reading up on this stuff and it doesn't look too good. I can't jump to conclusions right now.
I was so out of it on Thursday! It took me awhile to wake up she kept having me smell something then I would zonk right out again. They finally wheeled me into a post-op room and Phil was there waiting for me. I had major cotton mouth and slurped down 40 oz. of water. They told me I could stay the night or go home. I decided to go home because I knew I'd sleep way better then having the nurses come poke me every 2 hours and take my vitals, plus it would be cheaper for us too.
So we finally left the hospital around 5 phil stopped and filled all my prescriptions, then I went home and slept on the couch till 7. We decided to go over to see Von and Janiel open their mission call. They are going to the Texas Fort Worth Mission and leave the middle of September! Crazy!!!!
Phil brought me back home my parents stopped by to visit for a bit but then I went back to bed, then yesterday I slept the majority of the day getting up here and there to keep the blood circulating in my legs. I pretty much did the same thing today, I was able to clean myself up and take a bath so that felt pretty good.
I feel like these past few days have been a blur. Just really achy, tired, nauseated, my vision has been blurry, and my mind isn't working like it usually does on this medication that I'm on.
I feel so blessed by everyone! The notes of encouragment, text I have recieved, and so forth. It really does hurt to talk a lot and for some reason I can't get very many people to understand that. I hope that I will know what we are going to do come this Wednesday.
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