It’s been truely a sucky year for me except having my daughter…
The Tuesday night before thanksgiving day, I was having alot of burning pain in my chest and thought it was heartburn well this prolonged for more than 24 hrs and was feeling nauseous, had the chills and then vomited once thats when I called my doctor and they said to go to the ER! I had never been to the ER for myself so I was pretty worried. Thankfully it didn’t take them long to see me at the ER and there was no one in the waiting room. I got a small room to check on me alot. They did a sonogram on all my orgrans and found a ton of stones in my gallbladder and said it needed to come out. My moms side has a family history of gallbladder stones. Its so weird because my mom was just having a gallbladder attack a few times this year and she needed surgery but she delayed her because she just has one stone thats 1cm. So we finally got my own room and waited for surgery. They said yes Wednesday night okay. It’s Wednesday night havent heard. They said sorry Thursday morning/night (thanksgiving) okay great im missing thanksgiving. Thurs morning/night rolls around. Oh sorry its gonna be Friday morning. Also on all these days i was either on a liquid diet or do not eat/drink for half the day until they decide i had surgery or not. Friday morning comes oh sorry we are pushing this back to afternoon because we are understaffed…. Then also couldn’t eat or drink for the first half of the day and was wiping my mouth with wet sponges it was so dry! Finally they said surgery was at 1:30pm. I get everything ready and im SO nervous never had surgery before but this kind is done alot and i guess done to women who just had a baby. Im in preop room they are going over anesthesia stuff and signing papers and taking metal jewelry off me. My husband and I are both nervous. I had to pee at least 3 times before I go in was so nervous but had to give out my trust. I get wheeled into a bright room with weird lamps and stuff on the ceiling and lay on this hard thin board for surgery and knocked back with anesthesia. The procedure was 2 hrs but I was under for 3 hours because someone on the staff either had a emergency or they had to do emergency on someone else before they started on me. That was so weird. I finally wake up and feeling fine and they put a bedpan under me because I had to go again but it was slower because of the anestigia. I took some anti nausea drug because I was alittle nauseous after. I am laying there for a hour after and then I go back to my room. I am at relief and happy its all over. My surgeon had said my gallbladder was really inflamed and it was hard to get out. There was some blood but not enough to need a transfusion. I have a follow up appt in a few days. Walking was soo hard because the daily stuff I do with my body hurt so much like sneezing, coughing laughing literally anything. I needed a nurse to help me to the commode every time and plus the day i needed them most they were busy and waited like 15 min for help every time it was really sucky! They said i cant lift anything for 15-20 lbs for two weeks but i can remain my usual diet. But I just staying away from bad foods for a while until I feel comfortable. Now I have been overly anxious about getting sick or getting infection. Anything new I feel in my body I instantly think wtf is that or get overly worried. After a few days from surgery I felt fine and started to clean alot it was all so great. Then two days later I am nauseous, vomited once in morning then had diarrhea all day and the chills and that night had a high fever! I went back to ER because I was hoping the fever was not a infection but maybe a bug. Turns out it was Norovirus and just needs fluids and sleep to get it out of me. We waited in ER for 10 hrs total to be seen and helped it was so crazy and it was from 9pm to 7am that sucked alot! My husband had to miss alot of work for me to help me around the house at first and then me getting sick and now today he is sick with a fever!! I was so sad to miss thanksgiving because it was my babys first thanksgiving and more people could meet her . This upcoming Saturday we decided to do a friendsgiving so we are excited for that!!
the hardest thing about waiting for surgery also was i couldnt see my 7 week old for two days! She is breastfeeding only and we didn’t want to risk getting her sick in the hospital! She also had to learn to take formula which she didn’t like at first so that was stressful because she wouldn’t eat at first.
yep thats been my whole thanksgiving week and week after!
this whole year has sucked for me! In feb 2023 i hit a deer and totaled my car and had to find a new car with my husbands bonus when he was supposed to buy a new car for himself. He gave me crap for it for so long and made me feel bad. He was just frustrated with the situation and apologized but it sucked feeling like that.
The Tuesday night before thanksgiving day, I was having alot of burning pain in my chest and thought it was heartburn well this prolonged for more than 24 hrs and was feeling nauseous, had the chills and then vomited once thats when I called my doctor and they said to go to the ER! I had never been to the ER for myself so I was pretty worried. Thankfully it didn’t take them long to see me at the ER and there was no one in the waiting room. I got a small room to check on me alot. They did a sonogram on all my orgrans and found a ton of stones in my gallbladder and said it needed to come out. My moms side has a family history of gallbladder stones. Its so weird because my mom was just having a gallbladder attack a few times this year and she needed surgery but she delayed her because she just has one stone thats 1cm. So we finally got my own room and waited for surgery. They said yes Wednesday night okay. It’s Wednesday night havent heard. They said sorry Thursday morning/night (thanksgiving) okay great im missing thanksgiving. Thurs morning/night rolls around. Oh sorry its gonna be Friday morning. Also on all these days i was either on a liquid diet or do not eat/drink for half the day until they decide i had surgery or not. Friday morning comes oh sorry we are pushing this back to afternoon because we are understaffed…. Then also couldn’t eat or drink for the first half of the day and was wiping my mouth with wet sponges it was so dry! Finally they said surgery was at 1:30pm. I get everything ready and im SO nervous never had surgery before but this kind is done alot and i guess done to women who just had a baby. Im in preop room they are going over anesthesia stuff and signing papers and taking metal jewelry off me. My husband and I are both nervous. I had to pee at least 3 times before I go in was so nervous but had to give out my trust. I get wheeled into a bright room with weird lamps and stuff on the ceiling and lay on this hard thin board for surgery and knocked back with anesthesia. The procedure was 2 hrs but I was under for 3 hours because someone on the staff either had a emergency or they had to do emergency on someone else before they started on me. That was so weird. I finally wake up and feeling fine and they put a bedpan under me because I had to go again but it was slower because of the anestigia. I took some anti nausea drug because I was alittle nauseous after. I am laying there for a hour after and then I go back to my room. I am at relief and happy its all over. My surgeon had said my gallbladder was really inflamed and it was hard to get out. There was some blood but not enough to need a transfusion. I have a follow up appt in a few days. Walking was soo hard because the daily stuff I do with my body hurt so much like sneezing, coughing laughing literally anything. I needed a nurse to help me to the commode every time and plus the day i needed them most they were busy and waited like 15 min for help every time it was really sucky! They said i cant lift anything for 15-20 lbs for two weeks but i can remain my usual diet. But I just staying away from bad foods for a while until I feel comfortable. Now I have been overly anxious about getting sick or getting infection. Anything new I feel in my body I instantly think wtf is that or get overly worried. After a few days from surgery I felt fine and started to clean alot it was all so great. Then two days later I am nauseous, vomited once in morning then had diarrhea all day and the chills and that night had a high fever! I went back to ER because I was hoping the fever was not a infection but maybe a bug. Turns out it was Norovirus and just needs fluids and sleep to get it out of me. We waited in ER for 10 hrs total to be seen and helped it was so crazy and it was from 9pm to 7am that sucked alot! My husband had to miss alot of work for me to help me around the house at first and then me getting sick and now today he is sick with a fever!! I was so sad to miss thanksgiving because it was my babys first thanksgiving and more people could meet her . This upcoming Saturday we decided to do a friendsgiving so we are excited for that!!
the hardest thing about waiting for surgery also was i couldnt see my 7 week old for two days! She is breastfeeding only and we didn’t want to risk getting her sick in the hospital! She also had to learn to take formula which she didn’t like at first so that was stressful because she wouldn’t eat at first.
yep thats been my whole thanksgiving week and week after!
this whole year has sucked for me! In feb 2023 i hit a deer and totaled my car and had to find a new car with my husbands bonus when he was supposed to buy a new car for himself. He gave me crap for it for so long and made me feel bad. He was just frustrated with the situation and apologized but it sucked feeling like that.