Surgery threw me for a loop. It was a little more difficult than I expected. The day started rather interestingly, my sister Kate was suppose to pick me up at 6:15 to go to the hospital that is just down the road. She texted me and said she was running late and it might be closer to 6:20. I text her back, because the roads have been slick and icy, and asked her if she just wanted me to meet her. I did not hear anything back until 6:22. She said she was at the hospital. I was like, "Oh my Gosh", I was sitting at my kitchen table waiting for her since I had not heard back from her. I rushed to the car, scraped the windows and dashed to the hospital
Things were pretty standard once I was there, rolling in at about 6:32. The doctor initialed my knee to be sure he did not get the wrong leg, they started the IV and I was off to surgery. I woke up in recovery with pain and they gave me some morphine. When I was ready, they took me to another room to get ready to leave, when my sister noticed there was blood on the blanket. We showed the nurse (meanwhile I am having more pain and they give me morphine and Norco) and she pulled the blanket off and the dressing was soaked through with a lot of blood. She called the doctor. The PA came and rather ungraciously grabbed my leg and started taking the dressing off and I am like "Oh NO". The nurse rushed in to help. The pain shot to a 10+. They redressed it and said he said that the blood was probably because they had flushed the wound. It was really hurting, I was not sure how I was going to get into the car let alone into the house. Thankfully we have a walker with a seat and so Kate got that for me when we got home and I got into the house.
The afternoon, was pretty tough, I would half-way fall asleep and have weird dreams.Then around 4:00 I started getting nauseous with a headache. I was pretty miserable all through the night and ended up being sick to my stomach with a headache not to mention the leg pain. Around 8:00 last night I decided no more pain killers they were worse than the pain. I did not really sleep last night, but by this morning the nausea was gone and the headache mostly. I only had the leg pain which was much more desirable and it has gotten better through the day. I am doing better tonight.
Graciously, I was able to talk to Doug 3 times throughout the day yesterday to keep him up to date, thanks to our friends, Heidi, Ryleen, Jan and Melanie and then today thanks to Gerri, Ingrid and Kate. I felt much better knowing Doug had help if he needed it and company. He was very sweet; he was more worried about me. He did not want me to come see him tonight. He wanted me to rest and so I am. My sister Kate went over to be with him tonight. Last night Angie and Tom came over from Star and brought the jeep back to me from the hospital and checked in with us. In the middle of all of this Angie has ended up on jury duty for the next 3 weeks in Boise. We all seem to have a lot of irons in the fire.
But for tonight, I am doing better and Doug told me that physical therapy is going to work on getting him to a stand with special equipment. He is very excited about this and really wants to walk again. Kate said that tonight he was able to push the button for the nurse with the regular call button. I don't know how much help he needed, but clearly he continues to move forward. I look forward to seeing him tomorrow. Hopefully it will be a better day for me too.
Thank you all for your prayers, thoughts and good wishes. We feel so cared for and loved. We are so blessed to share this journey with so many. Thank you just does not seem sufficient for how we have been blessed.
My friend Liz sent me this prayer today from Our Daily Bread and I loved it and thought I would share it tonight. It seems to fit perfectly.
Calm my spirit in the storms, Lord. Grant me Your peace and the strength to walk through this day. Amen
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