I have had quite a busy weekend and paid for it last night. I spent the day (Saturday) in my wheel chair down stairs for most of the day. We are remodeling our down stairs kitchen and I wanted to be down there supervising. LOL I also took two trips to Lowe's with my husband and a trip to Moe's (a restaurant). I even bragged to one of our friends that we ran in to that I had been sleeping OK....well the reason I had been sleeping pretty good is because I had not been doing anything during the day so my foot was not swelling very bad. I took my meds to try to go to sleep last night and that didn't even work. I was miserable all night. I did only take one oxycodone (instead of two and a phenergan). I kept waking myself up all night trying to get my foot comfortable, but I just could NOT get comfortable.
I stayed in bed late today in hopes that I would make it through my Granny's family reunion. It was kinda hard and my foot swelled up like a puffer fish but I did it. Then when we came home I sat on our back porch for a while. It was so relaxing listening to the creek running through our back yard. I sat on the back porch trying to figure out how I could get down to the creek in my wheel chair. It's not possible because it would be a very bumpy ride. I just wanted to stick my one good foot in the water. One day I'll get there again.
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Two weeks Post op
I am two weeks post op today. It has been a while since I posted anything so I have had several things happen since I last wrote anything.
I took a trip to Kentucky for Easter to see my husbands family. It was not an easy trip to make but I did get through it. I got to see my son who lives in Illinois who I miss terribly. I also got to hold my new grand baby (who lives in Texas) for the first time and that made the painful trip worth all the pain I endured.
I was lucky that I didn't have to make the trip all at one time. My dad has a house in Tennessee that is half way between our house in SC and my father in law's house in Kentucky. We left Thursday afternoon for Tennessee. On the way we stopped to eat. Since this was my first time out of the house I was very nervous to be in public since my surgery for the first time. I had a wonderful pizza at a cute pizza restaurant in Tryon NC. I was very uncomfortable while sitting. I did keep my leg elevated on my wheel chair but the way I was sitting was pulling at my Achilles tendon which made me very uncomfortable. After dinner I thought I should go to the rest room before we got back on the road. Like I said this restaurant was very cute but NOT wheel chair friendly so Michael had to bring in my crutches. They had very uneven (pretty but not very safe) brick flooring. The restroom door was too small to fit my wheel chair in so I had to crutch it in to the restroom. I may be wrong but I thought that every public facility across the country had to be wheel chair friendly or at least handicap friendly. This place was NOT either. Thank goodness Kinlie was there to help me get in to the bath room stall because there was no rail and like I said the floor was very unstable. I did survive but not without being in a lot of pain and VERY nervous.
We made sure to pack PLENTY of pillows and blankets that I could rest my foot on. I drive a fairly new suburban that has bucket seats as the middle seats. I started out with my foot extended across to the other seat. This was very uncomfortable. I tried to take my medicine thinking that I would be able to sleep on the drive there. Since this is a very curvy ride my foot kept sliding around. This made me tense all over and there was no sleep for me. We got smarter the next day and decided that it may be more comfortable for me to lay my seat back and extend my foot to the middle console between the two front seats. This was a much better plan as it was not totally comfortable but much more comfortable than the previous plan.
Needless to say I did make it there and back. It was a very painful trip and had it not been for getting to see my son and gran baby I would not try it again but I did have fun.
The swelling in my foot goes down a good bit at night while I'm sleeping. two days ago when I started moving around (by moving around I mean getting up to potty then back to bed with my foot elevated) my foot started to swell again. I don't have a lot of room in my cast to move, but what little room I do have my foot shifted (just enough) and when it swelled back up it was pressing on a nerve. OMGosh was this so painful. I thought I was going to have to call the doctor to have him take off my cast. If I could have gotten it off myself I think I would have taken it off just to get relief. I spent a big part of the night putting my leg up in the air just to get relief so the pressure was not touching my nerve. I am also having a lot more pins & needles feelings in my foot and my toes so with that along with the nerve pain it was NOT a good day and night. By pins and needles I mean it literally feels like someone is putting pins and needles into my skin. With all of that put together my foot was just jumping around like it had a mind of it's own. If it had not been so painful it would have actually been funny. My nurse did tell me this would happen because not only did my foot go through a lot of trauma, but they had to work with a lot of nerves while doing my surgery.
When I woke up the next morning I had relief and my cast was not on the nerve. Now that I know that can happen I make sure that as my foot is swelling during the day I'm not moving a lot as to make sure my foot doesn't shift to the wrong spot again. Definitely DON'T want anything inside the cast pressing on a nerve again.
I took a trip to Kentucky for Easter to see my husbands family. It was not an easy trip to make but I did get through it. I got to see my son who lives in Illinois who I miss terribly. I also got to hold my new grand baby (who lives in Texas) for the first time and that made the painful trip worth all the pain I endured.
I was lucky that I didn't have to make the trip all at one time. My dad has a house in Tennessee that is half way between our house in SC and my father in law's house in Kentucky. We left Thursday afternoon for Tennessee. On the way we stopped to eat. Since this was my first time out of the house I was very nervous to be in public since my surgery for the first time. I had a wonderful pizza at a cute pizza restaurant in Tryon NC. I was very uncomfortable while sitting. I did keep my leg elevated on my wheel chair but the way I was sitting was pulling at my Achilles tendon which made me very uncomfortable. After dinner I thought I should go to the rest room before we got back on the road. Like I said this restaurant was very cute but NOT wheel chair friendly so Michael had to bring in my crutches. They had very uneven (pretty but not very safe) brick flooring. The restroom door was too small to fit my wheel chair in so I had to crutch it in to the restroom. I may be wrong but I thought that every public facility across the country had to be wheel chair friendly or at least handicap friendly. This place was NOT either. Thank goodness Kinlie was there to help me get in to the bath room stall because there was no rail and like I said the floor was very unstable. I did survive but not without being in a lot of pain and VERY nervous.
We made sure to pack PLENTY of pillows and blankets that I could rest my foot on. I drive a fairly new suburban that has bucket seats as the middle seats. I started out with my foot extended across to the other seat. This was very uncomfortable. I tried to take my medicine thinking that I would be able to sleep on the drive there. Since this is a very curvy ride my foot kept sliding around. This made me tense all over and there was no sleep for me. We got smarter the next day and decided that it may be more comfortable for me to lay my seat back and extend my foot to the middle console between the two front seats. This was a much better plan as it was not totally comfortable but much more comfortable than the previous plan.
Needless to say I did make it there and back. It was a very painful trip and had it not been for getting to see my son and gran baby I would not try it again but I did have fun.
The swelling in my foot goes down a good bit at night while I'm sleeping. two days ago when I started moving around (by moving around I mean getting up to potty then back to bed with my foot elevated) my foot started to swell again. I don't have a lot of room in my cast to move, but what little room I do have my foot shifted (just enough) and when it swelled back up it was pressing on a nerve. OMGosh was this so painful. I thought I was going to have to call the doctor to have him take off my cast. If I could have gotten it off myself I think I would have taken it off just to get relief. I spent a big part of the night putting my leg up in the air just to get relief so the pressure was not touching my nerve. I am also having a lot more pins & needles feelings in my foot and my toes so with that along with the nerve pain it was NOT a good day and night. By pins and needles I mean it literally feels like someone is putting pins and needles into my skin. With all of that put together my foot was just jumping around like it had a mind of it's own. If it had not been so painful it would have actually been funny. My nurse did tell me this would happen because not only did my foot go through a lot of trauma, but they had to work with a lot of nerves while doing my surgery.
When I woke up the next morning I had relief and my cast was not on the nerve. Now that I know that can happen I make sure that as my foot is swelling during the day I'm not moving a lot as to make sure my foot doesn't shift to the wrong spot again. Definitely DON'T want anything inside the cast pressing on a nerve again.
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Lots of firsts : )
I am so tired and sore tonight. Tomorrow will be a week since my surgery and today was the first time I actually went outside. I didn't realize what a big chore it would be for Michael (my husband) and Kinlie (my daughter) to get me downstairs. We dicided it would be easier to go outside and go around the house instead of me going down the stairs in the house. We have two entrances in to our house our upstairs front door or we have a full basement (basically another whole house downstairs) with it's own entrance. With them taking me outside and around the house I didn't have to take as many steps. Since they took me in my wheel chair I only had two steps to get off of the front porch then Michael took me down a big sidewalk hill around to the back of the house. I was a little nervous but he brought me down backwards so I didn't get away from him. On the way back up we went through the carport which meant I had to go up three steps at the driveway and two steps to get up on the front porch. My little Yorkie Mollie likes to ride in my wheel chair with me. Sometimes as I'm going to or from the bathroom I will put her in my lap and let her ride. She rode with me downstairs today and she seemed to love it.
It was really funny because there was a man walking several dogs down the street as they were bringing me out today. He kinda chuckled at us as he went by. I was laughing pretty hard too along with my squeeling from fright that I may get away in the wheel chair. When I say this is a steep hill....I mean it is steep. LOL
After we got to the back porch we just stayed outside for a few minutes. It was so nice to feel the sunshine and sit outside for a while. Mollie was taking it all in. Since I have been in she has only went outside to go potty then right back in the house too. I think she was enjoying the outside air as much as I was. She has been stuck to me like glue since I got home from the hospital. She has been a real comfort to me.
After sitting outside for a while I took my first REAL shower since my surgery. You can only take so many of the sponge baths with the little hospital wipes you get from the hospital. Not that they are not appreiciated, but there's nothing like a real shower. We put a plastic deck chair in the walk in shower we have downstairs with a towel on the seat. Then we put another plastic porch chair outside the shower with some rolled up towels to prop my leg on. We tied a big black trash bag around my leg above my cast then wrapped a towel around that. I think that was the BEST shower I have ever had!!! LOL We did decide that it would probably be better to get a cast cover for future showers instead of a trashbag. It would just be one less thing we have to worry about since they are waterproof.
After my nice shower Kinlie dryed my hair for me and fixed it. Eventhough I was only going outside long enough to go back upstairs she had me looking like a million bucks. Michael told her "that's right fix her up and she has no where to go" LOL I only stayed downstairs long enough to take my shower and dry my hair, but just that short amount of time I'm still feeling the pain. I kept my foot elevated on my wheel chair, but I was feeling a pulling in the back of my leg. I guess it was putting a strain on my achilles tendon that they repaired while I was sitting there. I've been back in bed for a while with my foot elevated, but I'm hurting pretty bad from my knee to my toes. As bad as it hurts right now...it was SO WORTH the nice shower I got.
We are supposed to be going out of town tomorrow. I'm really hoping I can make it through this weekend out of town. Lots of prayers and pain medicine will get me through it.
It was really funny because there was a man walking several dogs down the street as they were bringing me out today. He kinda chuckled at us as he went by. I was laughing pretty hard too along with my squeeling from fright that I may get away in the wheel chair. When I say this is a steep hill....I mean it is steep. LOL
After we got to the back porch we just stayed outside for a few minutes. It was so nice to feel the sunshine and sit outside for a while. Mollie was taking it all in. Since I have been in she has only went outside to go potty then right back in the house too. I think she was enjoying the outside air as much as I was. She has been stuck to me like glue since I got home from the hospital. She has been a real comfort to me.
After sitting outside for a while I took my first REAL shower since my surgery. You can only take so many of the sponge baths with the little hospital wipes you get from the hospital. Not that they are not appreiciated, but there's nothing like a real shower. We put a plastic deck chair in the walk in shower we have downstairs with a towel on the seat. Then we put another plastic porch chair outside the shower with some rolled up towels to prop my leg on. We tied a big black trash bag around my leg above my cast then wrapped a towel around that. I think that was the BEST shower I have ever had!!! LOL We did decide that it would probably be better to get a cast cover for future showers instead of a trashbag. It would just be one less thing we have to worry about since they are waterproof.
After my nice shower Kinlie dryed my hair for me and fixed it. Eventhough I was only going outside long enough to go back upstairs she had me looking like a million bucks. Michael told her "that's right fix her up and she has no where to go" LOL I only stayed downstairs long enough to take my shower and dry my hair, but just that short amount of time I'm still feeling the pain. I kept my foot elevated on my wheel chair, but I was feeling a pulling in the back of my leg. I guess it was putting a strain on my achilles tendon that they repaired while I was sitting there. I've been back in bed for a while with my foot elevated, but I'm hurting pretty bad from my knee to my toes. As bad as it hurts right now...it was SO WORTH the nice shower I got.
We are supposed to be going out of town tomorrow. I'm really hoping I can make it through this weekend out of town. Lots of prayers and pain medicine will get me through it.
Six Days Post Op
I am six days post op and still sore. I have found that I'm getting sore all over just from laying around and not doing much. I'm especially sore in my arms (from the crutches) and my upper body. I figure that is because I'm using more of my upper body to pull myself up in bed and to get in and out of my wheel chair.
Good news is, last night I slept all the way through the night.....bad news is I slept all the way through the night and didn't take my pain medicine. I was hurting so badly when I woke up this morning that I didn't think I would be able to control my pain for a while. I took two oxycodones and a phenergan at 6:00am and then another oxycodone (no phenergan this time) at 10:24 am and I'm feeling OK right now. I'm really tired of being so tired, but I guess as long as I'm not doing anything fatigue is what I'll be feeling.
We are supposed to be going to Kentucky this weekend to be with my husbands family. I'm hoping that I will feel like going. I made sure I had all of my pain meds and phenergan filled just in case. My nurse told me as long as I can keep my foot elevated in the car I should be fine. I get car sick and since the only way to keep my foot elevated is by sitting in the back I'm not looking forward to the ride, but hopefully the phenergan will help me with the motion sickness. I'm still trying to gauge my pain like the nurse told me to, but I've found that there are times I'm feeling more pain than others. I'm not sure why, because I'm not doing anything different except that some times I may be sitting up in bed and others I'm laying down. I guess it does make a difference if my foot is above my heart or below it.
I seem to be feeling a little more nauseous now than I was in the beginning. I have wondered if it could be that the medicine is building up in my system. Not sure if that is possible, but I seem to not be able to eat much now (not to say that will hurt my weight loss efforts) hahaha I feel like I'm living on these little mini saltine crackers my mom got me and Canada Dry ginger ale. I'm persnickety about my ginger ale...it has to be Canada Dry. LOL Michael fixed me dinner last night, but after about three bites I couldn't eat any more. I did have some cheese toast and bran flakes this morning, but I ended up feeling a little nauseous after that too. I'm sitting here wondering how lunch will go today. I'm kinda craving KFC mashed potatoes....that's what I like when I get nauseous.
I'm still trying to space out my bathroom breaks since it takes me about 45 minutes to get over the pain from having my foot down when I go. I was hoping to be more mobile by now. My goal was to be able to go down stairs for a while by yesterday. I didn't quite meet that goal. LOL They put in my new counter tops yesterday morning and I still haven't been down there to see them. Kinlie did make me a video but I can't tell much from that. I did go to the front door yesterday afternoon and stuck my feet out the door for about five minutes. That was all I could take at the time so we will see what will happen today. A NICE LONG SHOWER would be GREAT!!!! My mom brought me some of the ready bath clothes that my granny got when she was in the hospital. They are good, but not as good as a full blown shower.
My medicine is making me itch. I can handle it anywhere but under my cast. LOL I sometimes get an itch on the bottom of my foot. Michael has been scratching behind my toes and it's one of those...hurt but just do it anyway type feelings...LOL It's like it sends tingles down my foot. My nurse said that would happen because of all the trauma my foot has been through. She also said there were a lot of nerves that got messed with during my surgery.
I have been very surprised that I haven't had that much swelling. I'm sure I would have more swelling if I were not keeping my foot elevated, but I really thought I would have more swelling with all the work they did. We have ALMOST got all of the orange medicine off of toes. I can only take them moving my toes around a little at a time for them to clean it off. My mom tried to get most of it off before my block wore off...THANK GOODNESS....but she has tried a couple of times since then and every time I twinge she stops because she doesn't want to hurt me. I keep telling her to just go ahead and do it but when I tense up she stops. Kinlie told me she would polish my toes with a french pedicure but I want all that orange stuff off first. I try to wiggle my toes as much as I can just to have movement. It feels weird to move them, but again it's one of those....hurts but gotta do it anyway...type things. hahaha
One thing that has helped me keep things at my finger tips is a little plastic basket that my mom bought me at the dollar tree. It's just big enough to fit my bath cloths, my crackers, my TV remote, cell phone and a few other small snacks and a few other things I've wanted at my finger tips. My bed side table is just close enough to my bed that the little basket just hangs there between my table and my bed so I can get to it easily. Kinlie also got me an Easter basket that has my puzzle book, a couple of magazines, a coloring book and crayons (yes I'm like a kid I like to color LOL) my pens, and a small box of thank you notes in it. I'm trying to keep up with my thank you notes as people come to visit or bring me things. It has really helped me feel a little self sufficient to be able to reach these things without having to ask someone to help me. I've also been using Kinlies lap top tray and bed tray. those things have really come in handy. Just a few things to make sure you have before surgery.
Good news is, last night I slept all the way through the night.....bad news is I slept all the way through the night and didn't take my pain medicine. I was hurting so badly when I woke up this morning that I didn't think I would be able to control my pain for a while. I took two oxycodones and a phenergan at 6:00am and then another oxycodone (no phenergan this time) at 10:24 am and I'm feeling OK right now. I'm really tired of being so tired, but I guess as long as I'm not doing anything fatigue is what I'll be feeling.
We are supposed to be going to Kentucky this weekend to be with my husbands family. I'm hoping that I will feel like going. I made sure I had all of my pain meds and phenergan filled just in case. My nurse told me as long as I can keep my foot elevated in the car I should be fine. I get car sick and since the only way to keep my foot elevated is by sitting in the back I'm not looking forward to the ride, but hopefully the phenergan will help me with the motion sickness. I'm still trying to gauge my pain like the nurse told me to, but I've found that there are times I'm feeling more pain than others. I'm not sure why, because I'm not doing anything different except that some times I may be sitting up in bed and others I'm laying down. I guess it does make a difference if my foot is above my heart or below it.
I seem to be feeling a little more nauseous now than I was in the beginning. I have wondered if it could be that the medicine is building up in my system. Not sure if that is possible, but I seem to not be able to eat much now (not to say that will hurt my weight loss efforts) hahaha I feel like I'm living on these little mini saltine crackers my mom got me and Canada Dry ginger ale. I'm persnickety about my ginger ale...it has to be Canada Dry. LOL Michael fixed me dinner last night, but after about three bites I couldn't eat any more. I did have some cheese toast and bran flakes this morning, but I ended up feeling a little nauseous after that too. I'm sitting here wondering how lunch will go today. I'm kinda craving KFC mashed potatoes....that's what I like when I get nauseous.
I'm still trying to space out my bathroom breaks since it takes me about 45 minutes to get over the pain from having my foot down when I go. I was hoping to be more mobile by now. My goal was to be able to go down stairs for a while by yesterday. I didn't quite meet that goal. LOL They put in my new counter tops yesterday morning and I still haven't been down there to see them. Kinlie did make me a video but I can't tell much from that. I did go to the front door yesterday afternoon and stuck my feet out the door for about five minutes. That was all I could take at the time so we will see what will happen today. A NICE LONG SHOWER would be GREAT!!!! My mom brought me some of the ready bath clothes that my granny got when she was in the hospital. They are good, but not as good as a full blown shower.
My medicine is making me itch. I can handle it anywhere but under my cast. LOL I sometimes get an itch on the bottom of my foot. Michael has been scratching behind my toes and it's one of those...hurt but just do it anyway type feelings...LOL It's like it sends tingles down my foot. My nurse said that would happen because of all the trauma my foot has been through. She also said there were a lot of nerves that got messed with during my surgery.
I have been very surprised that I haven't had that much swelling. I'm sure I would have more swelling if I were not keeping my foot elevated, but I really thought I would have more swelling with all the work they did. We have ALMOST got all of the orange medicine off of toes. I can only take them moving my toes around a little at a time for them to clean it off. My mom tried to get most of it off before my block wore off...THANK GOODNESS....but she has tried a couple of times since then and every time I twinge she stops because she doesn't want to hurt me. I keep telling her to just go ahead and do it but when I tense up she stops. Kinlie told me she would polish my toes with a french pedicure but I want all that orange stuff off first. I try to wiggle my toes as much as I can just to have movement. It feels weird to move them, but again it's one of those....hurts but gotta do it anyway...type things. hahaha
One thing that has helped me keep things at my finger tips is a little plastic basket that my mom bought me at the dollar tree. It's just big enough to fit my bath cloths, my crackers, my TV remote, cell phone and a few other small snacks and a few other things I've wanted at my finger tips. My bed side table is just close enough to my bed that the little basket just hangs there between my table and my bed so I can get to it easily. Kinlie also got me an Easter basket that has my puzzle book, a couple of magazines, a coloring book and crayons (yes I'm like a kid I like to color LOL) my pens, and a small box of thank you notes in it. I'm trying to keep up with my thank you notes as people come to visit or bring me things. It has really helped me feel a little self sufficient to be able to reach these things without having to ask someone to help me. I've also been using Kinlies lap top tray and bed tray. those things have really come in handy. Just a few things to make sure you have before surgery.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Five days post op
I'm five days post op and still surviving. I've tried to start cutting back on my pain meds during the day. I've been trying to go five to six hours in between the oxycodone and no phenergan during the day. At night I go back to two oxycondone with phenergan every four hours. It is still pretty painful, but I'm trying hard to stick to this. The only time I'm getting up is to go to the restroom and that is quite painful. My nurse told me she wanted me to start judging my pain instead of just automatically taking my pain meds every four hours whether I need it or not.
One problem I had last night is constipation from the pain meds. I was told that this could be a problem so I started taking Senekot-S on Saturday night. One of our friends that is a pharmacist suggested this. I took two before bed on Saturday night, two before bed on Sunday night and then two yesterday (Monday) afternoon. I realized this was not going to work so Michael called my doctor on the phone. He told him to get me some Milk of Magnesia...let me just say that stuff is like drinking chalk. LOL That unfortunately didn't work either so we called our pharmacist Friend which told him to get me a suppository. After about five hours of pure agony (I'm talking this was as bad as my surgery) it finally worked. I honestly thought I was going to die. I'm only saying this because I would hate for anyone else to go through what I had to go through so in other words....don't let it get so bad before you do something about it. fixing this problem before it happens would have been much easier.
I have been sleeping pretty good at night. That is partly due to pain meds that help me sleep, but I don't care how I get to sleep as long as I'm not awake all night in agony. I did get up this morning at 6:15 until 6:50 to sit with Michael before he went to work. That's the longest I've sat up in my wheel chair since my surgery. I had my foot elevated, but it was still painful. Elevation is not only the key to not much swelling, but also the key to not as much pain. The past few times I've gotten up to go to the bathroom I have had pins & needles feeling in my leg and foot. My foot is also twinging and jerking. The nurse told me this was pretty common with all the trauma my foot has been through and all the nerves that got messed with. The jerking is sometimes pretty painful since it tenses up my foot. Not a pleasant feeling at all but it could also be worse.
One problem I had last night is constipation from the pain meds. I was told that this could be a problem so I started taking Senekot-S on Saturday night. One of our friends that is a pharmacist suggested this. I took two before bed on Saturday night, two before bed on Sunday night and then two yesterday (Monday) afternoon. I realized this was not going to work so Michael called my doctor on the phone. He told him to get me some Milk of Magnesia...let me just say that stuff is like drinking chalk. LOL That unfortunately didn't work either so we called our pharmacist Friend which told him to get me a suppository. After about five hours of pure agony (I'm talking this was as bad as my surgery) it finally worked. I honestly thought I was going to die. I'm only saying this because I would hate for anyone else to go through what I had to go through so in other words....don't let it get so bad before you do something about it. fixing this problem before it happens would have been much easier.
I have been sleeping pretty good at night. That is partly due to pain meds that help me sleep, but I don't care how I get to sleep as long as I'm not awake all night in agony. I did get up this morning at 6:15 until 6:50 to sit with Michael before he went to work. That's the longest I've sat up in my wheel chair since my surgery. I had my foot elevated, but it was still painful. Elevation is not only the key to not much swelling, but also the key to not as much pain. The past few times I've gotten up to go to the bathroom I have had pins & needles feeling in my leg and foot. My foot is also twinging and jerking. The nurse told me this was pretty common with all the trauma my foot has been through and all the nerves that got messed with. The jerking is sometimes pretty painful since it tenses up my foot. Not a pleasant feeling at all but it could also be worse.
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Day Four post op
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.
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.
Day three post op
These pictures were taken today...day three post op. That's my Mollie still taking care of me. She has been such good company for me since I've been stuck in bed. As you can see I've kept my foot elevated good and the only time it is not elevated is when I go to the bathroom which I try to spread out as long as I can.
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