Hi all
Had op on Thursday. All went well. Had epidural as well as morphine pain relief. Felt fine next day but my consultant said to stay an extra night due to my journey length 2.5 hours in a car.
This morning feeling more discomfort, quite bruised obviously. Also, despite Dulcolax and Senocot haven't had a movement even though off morphine, just taking paracetamol. Had a bit of a temperature spike in the night so consultant recommended I stay in another day. Will be hectic at home so was quite happy to stay an extra night.
Problem is due to bed shortage, I ended up on a thoracic ward which is very noisy due to nebulisers and pumps gurgling and a lot of coughing so I've hardly had any sleep. Also no other gynae patients to discuss problems with.
All in all, my surgeon is lovely, very supportive and the whole team have been fantastic. At the moment histology should take 3 weeks and as the cancer was contained, should have been completely removed. But it was a high grade cancer, only in stage 1a,so might be a need for radiation,/chemo. The wait continues...
Just like to say thanks for all your messages of love and support even though we've only just met!! We're all on this journey together.
Big hugs to all, please excuse any typos, can't type on a screen this small.
Bxx
Hi MrsBJH, sounds very noisy and not great for sleep in hospital, hope things settle down and be a bit more comfortable very soon. I know my experience over the last 3 years i ve ended up in very strange wards considering what i am being treated for. My hysterectomy was proformed at a women’s hospital on a cancer ward which was shared with clarterbridge which was fantastic very quiet and really great staff and at least on a ward that was specialist for what i was having done. But at my local hospital i was in a surgical ward for a head infection, a gynae ward for a head infection and uti and the best one was when I was in hospital with urosepsis because they didn’t have any isolation cubicles because even with every other doctor treating me for sepsis one consultant said he thought it was flu and they wouldn’t put me in icu as they couldn’t separate me, so apparently one of the poor icu Doctors that was caring for me the first night had to walk up in to the surgical ward well away from icu because they aren’t near by, to keep an eye on me as she had to do blood oxygen levels every hour, and and the nurse had to do other observations in between, I clearly must of been out of it because otherwise I would never of slept, at least I know why my arms felt like pin cushions ,but the surgical ward were the only one who had a isolation cubicle free and of course it wasn't flu but sepsis and i was told i was borderline septic shock and were fantastic and got me well although when I left hospital i had to use a zimmer frame for a while thats really embarrassing since i am only 41 , but my legs were very painful after the sepsis probably a good job I couldn’t really remember what was happening that first day because I would think what a farse.
Sending you gentle hugs and best wishes you have better sleep tonight and your buising goes down. Don’t worry about typos i am one of the worst for it as i am dyslexic and my autocorrect I sometimes miss things changing.
_GBear Xxxx
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OMG what a journey you've been through! Read several of your posts now to different people and you really have been pushed from pillar to post. Make my journey so far seem trivial in comparison but it isn't is it? Everyone's is epic with all the highs and lows. At the moment I'm on a plateau, not too panicky just fed up of counting the days. To think as early as the 20th May I had no idea my world would turn upside down, inside out, you name it!
Read many of your replies to other forum members so you deserve a very big hug so here's one coming right at you !
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