Friday, April 6, 2012

Home after 1 day

28 hours after surgery and here I lie at home. I woke up at 3am with more pain and finally they switched meds and I told the doctor it was time to go home. By 5am we were hitting every expectation necessary to get me out. Foli out, walking- check, meds from I've to pill check, MRI check! So here I lie on pain meds in this char thankful to be out and home. Glue on my wound and bruised eye but I can handle all that. The tumor is out and I pray I never have another one. Everyone e has been so great to me including every single staff member at the hospital. I'm thankful for my family and my friends. Mike has been wonderful and everything I could ask of him.
I have no headache just this throbbing ear, jaw, and where stitches are. I can work through all of this with baby steps and support.

Thursday, April 5, 2012

Day of surgery

I had surgery at 7:30am and out by noon. I woke up gagging despite the naseau meds and I felt like someone was taking a hammer to the operative area. No matter how much pain meds they gave me nothing would work. It's now 7pm and its a little better plus taking pain meds every hour probably is helping. My incision is actually pretty small and should be easy to cover. I have an awesome support system surrounding me . I'm having a very hard time writting this with being on Benadryl (can't sleep)

Monday, April 2, 2012

This is Not Me

On Friday I struggled to roll out of bed while my head had a very painful ache feeling (this is me and has been an ongoing problem for a while) however when it came time to figure out easy math it made no sense to me and it only got worse from there...
I swear I put my money in my purse but come to find out I left it where my purse sits at home; I got to the gas station and with only 5 people in the store I couldn't function it was too much noise; and the worst part of not being myself last Friday was when I played a scratcher and said outloud, "S.P.A that't not a word. My friend quickly replied, "Theresa that is Spa" and suddenly it came back to me. But to not even recognize a word made me sick to my stomach. I struggled through the day taking any kind of medicine I could to keep my headache at bay and by saturday I felt normal again.
Surgery is in 70 hours and I almost wish it were in 3.