I've made it past the third day of my surgery. My Granny has always told me that the third day of surgery is always the worse and I'm not sure why but that is usually the way it goes with me. Today is my fourth day and I feel pretty good right now. I slept good last night too except for the itching and waking up every two hours to take my medicine.
I am more swollen than I was the day I had my surgery, but I feel like it has went down from yesterday. There are times I feel like there is NO room in my cast because it is swollen so much. Right now it's not painful, just tight.
My calf and toes keep twitching and that feels really weird. As I was dozing off yesterday my foot jerked and that REALLY HURT BAD!!! OMGoodness I thought I was going to die. LOL I keep getting pins and needles sticking me today in my foot, or at least that's what it feels like. I like not being in excruciating pain at the moment so I'll take all the other twinges as long as the pain is controlled.
Last night I had a slight fever of 99.1. My doctor told me that may happen and not to worry about it unless it was above 101. We just monitored it for a while and it went back to normal. That was really no biggy, but just thought I would mention it.
I decided on my last round of oxycodone (at 12:00 pm) to only take one oxy with NO phenergan just to see what happens. So far so good. One thing all of this medicine has done to me is make me constipated. I know that may be too much info, but if you are looking for the way this surgery is really affecting me then I feel you should know everything or it does no good for me to blog about the process. Anyway, one of my girl scout parents is a home health nurse and her husband is a pharmacist and when they brought us dinner yesterday she asked me if I had that problem. I didn't even have to tell her...she just knew since that is one thing she deals with in her home health patients when they get home after surgery. They told me to get Senokot-S and take two pills before bedtime. I did exactly what they said, but it hasn't worked yet. I'm hoping it works soon because I haven't been since Wednesday and today is Sunday. Like I said may be to much info, but that's what this blog is all about. LOL I do feel fortunate that my oxy is NOT making me sick....YAY!!! I know it has a tendency to make people sick so I'm so happy it didn't affect me that way.
I feel perkier today than I have since my surgery. I actually feel like I could sit on the porch for a few minutes right now but wouldn't you know it's cold and rainy today so I can't. Maybe tomorrow.
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The narcotics will make your muscles jump like that and it's usually as you just fall asleep. It happened to me several times and when your foot jerks inside that cast it almost feels liek some one took a sledge hammer to your foot. I would jerk straight up and yell owe owe owe owe and cry.
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