Update

Hi all,

apologies for the delay in getting in touch. It’s all been a bit of a mess. I had my abdominal surgery as planned last Tuesday. Late stage change to my surgeon. I ended up with two really lovely surons and anaesthetist. I had a spinal block in place before the operation which really helped with the pain post surgery. They attempted this 6 times until it was actually in place but it really wasn too bad. I woke up in recovery and then went up onto a ward. No pain really at all that evening and didn’t get out of bed. The surgeon came the next morning and said everything had gone really wellnd requested the nurses to get me out of bed before 12 and continue morphine to see how I get on then remove catheter. I quickly realised I was not on a gynae ward but a thoracic ward and the nurseseally didn’t know what they should have been doing with me. They removed my catheter and pain pump and 5pm and instructed me to get myself out of bed onto the chair. I did this and went completely dzy and fainted. I had not been up for a day and a half and no longer had pain killers. I ended up back in bed for the night and was given oral pain relief. The following day (Thursday)I was in severpain at the top part of my incision it felt like when I stood, walked or moved it was tearing the pain was so bad. This has continued since. On the first day I ate the food I had ordered from the me only to be told the day after by the surgeon that I should only be having a liquid diet. Everything seems to have gone so wrong. I now have been on movicol since Wednesday and have not yet opened mbowels. I am really worried about this and what is going to happen if I don’t go. All I have been eating since is cup a soups. The hospital just about got on top of pain medication today and got me mfortable but then the surgeon came and said my white blood cell count is 14000 which is too high so I can’t go home. I have really cried today. I’m in so much pain and so fed up. I just want to go me. Did anyone else have a high WBC and it went down? Xx