Well so far, today has been a really good day. To start off with I had surgery this morning. I had cancer on my temple and needed it to come off. I tell you the way to go is with no anesthesia. In my life I have had so many surgeries. Obviously I never enjoyed it, but I dealt with it. When I went through the 18 month period of 7 hospitalizations and 4 surgeries a year and a half ago, something changed. I believe it was after having surgery and I woke up in horrendous pain that they couldn't get under control. Ever since then, I've had major anxiety just thinking about it. I believe from that and a few other hospital experiences I have some sort of post traumatic stress disorder. I am not one to diagnose myself, but that seems pretty obvious.
I was supposed to go under for today's procedure and I had decided yesterday to see if it was possible to do the surgery without anesthesia, just numbing stuff. The doc and anesthesiologist were not thrilled, but they said yes. I had a little trouble as they were getting me all hooked up and settled just like I was going to have anesthesia and my body reacted like I was. I kept telling myself I was OK, but I had terrible anxiety. Shortly after the surgeon started operating, I calmed down. It was so nice not waking up all doped. I also get the shakes really bad from the anesthesia and they have to medicate me for that. I also do not seem to process all those meds very well as it takes a long time to get out of my system and it usually throws me into a flare and I did not want that to happen.
They still had to do an I.V. which it would have been nice to avoid as I am a hard stick. They got a nurse that was really good at iv's and she numbed me up with lidocaine and a spray. I didn't feel a thing. Next time I'm going to make sure they numb me up first. During my last hospital stay, I blew 3 iv's and the last one they put in was sticking out half way. They couldn't get it in any further. I was worried that during surgery I would have not gotten the meds. That time I had to be under.
If it's at all possible in the future, I'm going to try to have whatever done without going under. It was so nice to be able to walk out and not have to go through all that horrible waking up feeling yucky Plus I can eat what I want now and not have to worry.
We got the good news that the margins were clear so he got all the cancer. Plus I also got good new today on the pain bill. It passed in the house and now it's on it's way to the Senate. It sure would be nice if it passes. Well, I am going to go rest.
Take care
Melissa
I was supposed to go under for today's procedure and I had decided yesterday to see if it was possible to do the surgery without anesthesia, just numbing stuff. The doc and anesthesiologist were not thrilled, but they said yes. I had a little trouble as they were getting me all hooked up and settled just like I was going to have anesthesia and my body reacted like I was. I kept telling myself I was OK, but I had terrible anxiety. Shortly after the surgeon started operating, I calmed down. It was so nice not waking up all doped. I also get the shakes really bad from the anesthesia and they have to medicate me for that. I also do not seem to process all those meds very well as it takes a long time to get out of my system and it usually throws me into a flare and I did not want that to happen.
They still had to do an I.V. which it would have been nice to avoid as I am a hard stick. They got a nurse that was really good at iv's and she numbed me up with lidocaine and a spray. I didn't feel a thing. Next time I'm going to make sure they numb me up first. During my last hospital stay, I blew 3 iv's and the last one they put in was sticking out half way. They couldn't get it in any further. I was worried that during surgery I would have not gotten the meds. That time I had to be under.
If it's at all possible in the future, I'm going to try to have whatever done without going under. It was so nice to be able to walk out and not have to go through all that horrible waking up feeling yucky Plus I can eat what I want now and not have to worry.
We got the good news that the margins were clear so he got all the cancer. Plus I also got good new today on the pain bill. It passed in the house and now it's on it's way to the Senate. It sure would be nice if it passes. Well, I am going to go rest.
Take care
Melissa
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