Re: post-op update
- From: "johnie" <jhugh@xxxxxxx>
- Date: 12 Oct 2005 11:17:21 -0700
kate, thanks for the update. now get back to healing up.
johnie
d'huit wrote:
> it's been an 'interesting' 4 days since surgery. it certainly held my
> attention.<g> guess these kinds of things tend to make one a bit
> self-oriented, no matter how hard one might try to focus on something or
> somebody else.
>
> nann, sweetie, i can't thank you enough for suggesting i take pain killers
> before i went to my post-op appmt. i shutter to think what it would have
> been like without my taking your advice. even with two percocets in me,
> they made me lie down halfway through the dressing removal process. was
> told i turned visibly gray, sweaty and then my body tried to embarrass
> myself by requiring the wastepaper basket. i thought i was being a wuss,
> but the nurse reassured me that a wuss isn't inclined to watch the unveiling
> of a surgeon's handiwork without making a sound. i'm not the type who is
> queasy at all about anybody's, least of all my own, injuries or wounds and
> frequently watch u of w surgical procedures on tv, because i find the
> process fascinating and the result, amazing. but i guess my body had
> reactions of its own that didn't take my mind into consideration.
>
> next came 3L x-ray views of my wrist and 2L views of my elbow. lucky for
> me, they decided that a wheelchair was more reliable to get me to xray than
> my legs. during the course of those xrays, my arm spasmed and my body
> decided that wasn't enough physical activity to celebrate that momentous
> occassion, so my whole body decided to dance to the pain. i so love warm
> blankets.
>
> back with my surgeon, he tells me my xrays look good, the position of
> everthing looks good. he tells me the elbow break is so small that the
> fixator didn't phase it and it will do fine with a splint support. tells me
> there were two very small fragments, too small to pin or wire, almost like
> bone flakes that he simply positioned where they belonged, after he wired
> and pinned the rest of the fragments. said it bothered him that part of an
> interior bone was pulverized and was essentially missing, but he didin't
> want to put me trough a bone graft for that one piece. said there was
> nothing that could be done about the crshed outer edge of my ulnar, but that
> he thought,after he scoped it, the tendon will stay put. he said exactly
> what rose said about how i broke my wrist. he figures i'll be wearing the
> fixator for at least 8 weeks, unless i suddenly turn into a bone making
> machine. won't be anymore surgeries, except for removing what looks like
> the bent over nail ends on the outside of the skin on my wrist and this
> fixator's four pins. my fingers and thumb are kind of clawlike, cuz i can't
> straighten them or make a fist. he said the tendons were probably rubbing
> on pins and stop flexing when it hurts.
>
> then he told me he cut or punctured his thumb on one of the sharp pins or
> wires or something that he had just put through my wrist bones. that there
> was no risk to me, but that he was concerned that i might have aids or
> hepatitis and didn't tell him. poor guy. it must be hell these days to be
> a surgeon and nick yourself during surgery. how scary it must be to be a
> surgeon. i reassured him that i revealed everything i knew about myself,
> medically, but if it would help to reassure him he had my permission to call
> my pcp and ask her anything. later, i started thinking---i had all kinds of
> pre-op bloodwrk done. wouldn't those bloodtests have told him i was ok? i
> just now called my pcp to have her call him, cuz i wondred if hippa would be
> a problem. dr. to dr. info is ok, no hippa problem. but they informed me
> i've never been tested for aids or hepititis, no reason to do that. dang, i
> don't suppose my never having been tested will make him feel any better.
> sigh . . .
>
> then came the re-dressing process. at least the bandaging is minimal this
> time. then they told me to go home, take more pain pills and rest. it was
> almost 2 hours before i could leave there. whew! can i get away with
> calling that post-op appmt. an ordeal?
>
> kelly, 'outlander' and your card arrived. thank you, sweetie. i'm going to
> savor that book. sj, your card arrived too. that was way sweet of you.
>
> i have been thinking about everybody, and keeping you guys in my prayerful
> thots.
>
> kate
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