6/20/02
Adriane had surgery yesterday morning. She was the first one in. I (her husband) received the call from the surgery room that she was asleep and the preparing to begin the surgery at 7:45 am. At 8:15 her doctor came out and said that everything went perfectly, and they are preparing her to go into recovery. She went into recovery at 9:07, and stayed there until a room opened up at noon. She doesn't recall the recovery at all. Her first memory after surgery is waking up in the room. She wasn't very coherent most of the day, and slept most of the time. She was able to get up out of bed and into a chair (which she says is alot more comfortable then the bed) at about 3:00 in the afternoon. Her biggest "voiced" complaint was that her throat hurt, and the doctor was able to give her throat losenges which helped moderately. She was able to get up twice and walk around the nurses station (about 150 feet) on two separate times by the end of the day.
Today, she is more alert and able to go to the bathroom by herself, although she is not able to wipe very well. There is very limited use of the abdominal muscles. Sitting up is the most difficult and painful activity. The stomach tube is set on intermediate, so it only pumps for about 5 seconds and stops for about 10 seconds. It has collected 200-ml of bloody secretions after 36 hours.
Overall she is doing very well, and is very mobile. She did say that she doesn't regret it and the pain is worse then the C-section.
This is what my hubby tried to post on the days following my surgery but it only showed on my profile. So here it is too.