Two days out

For two days after surgery i am actually feeling great! My stomach hurts pretty bad. They made one large incision on my bikini line, similar to a c-section incision, then one in my belly button (vomit), then two smaller incisions on my left torso and one above my belly button. Right after surgery the pain from where my kidney used to be was horrible. It felt like the worst cramps i have ever had, but isolated to one small area. It was quite painful. But every time i get up and walk around, it hurts a bit less. 

The first day i was on a morphine/delodin drip that had a button i could push when i needed the meds. That stuff was pretty powerful and made me nauseous and gave me a pretty bad headache. So yesterday afternoon my doc took me off the drip and let me get on oral meds instead. At first they were giving me 2 percocet, but that was even too much. I am down to one pill every 4-6 hours and hope to be just on tylenol by the end of the night. The pain killers make me so sick to my stomach they had to give me 3 treatments of anti-nausea medication. 

I have not been sleeping more than just a few hours at a time. The doctors and nurses come in every couple hours to check my vitals and give shots of something to prevent blood clots in my tummy. They have also taken blood from me a few times. The first few shots and blood draws were not bad because i was on pain meds, so i didn't feel a thing!! 

Last night at midnight Collette came back to hang out because neither one of us could sleep. So we chilled in my hospital bed and watched tv and then passed out. She slept through 4 of my doctors/nurses visits during the night! One doc was even like, am i going to wake her up if i turn on the light?? Yeah, there was no waking her up!! Everyone is so exhausted from this whole situation. 

I get to go home from the hospital today. Molly gets to go home on Monday, which means she will get her hemocath out as well, which she is really looking forward to. The crazy thing is that when my left kidney was in my body i used to get flank pain from it. Now that it is in Molly's front right side she said she can feel the throbbing sensation i felt when it was in my body! Weird! I guess that is how we know it is working for sure :)

                                                   trying to not get pneumonia!

                                                    my fluid line.

                                            The day after surgery

                                          My First post-op Coke!!!! Yum!!

So now we are just hanging out waiting for discharge. Collette already picked up my prescriptions and has all my stuff ready to go! We are going to walk the halls a bit more to try to get my shoulder pain under control.