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Posted 09-13-2007 at 06:17 PM by MsVickie

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Now i have a place to write my novels instead of having everyone try to read them. LOL. First thanks for this. Its appreciated trust me.

OK Im here on Thursday before my surgery. I just got done with the last surgeons visit today. He said hes doing the keyhole unless my old scar from a previous gall bladder surgery has to many adhesions or my liver is just to big. Then he will open me up. Ughh..... i don't want that but it if happens it does.

The hubby is getting nervous. Hey i thought that was my job LOL ! Good thing i go back to work on Monday from my vacation. He needs me out of the house as much as I need to be out of it.

Its been a long road to get to this point believe me. I joined this board in March 2006. Its now September and Im more than ready to get this done and over with. I know the first month is the critical month for this surgery. The only thing I can advise at this point and time is patience.......... and check your Dr out and ask them anything. For three hours on Wends Sept 19th my life will be in the hands of a surgeon. Hes the best that I can find from my corner of the world. I trust him. Then it will be up to me to heal and get better. Im ready for that challenge.

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1. Ok so im here today still at home on the tail end of my vacation. Trying to clean stuff that needs it or to keep me busy. I have a son that is 22 that still lives with me. I wonder why? LOL I have just went in his room. Eweeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I never go in unless im missing somthing which has been a year now. Towels... im missing towels I say to myself. When I open the door and almost fainted. Not kidding. I dont know if it was because of what I found or the smell. He always kept a messy room as a child. I used to punish him all the time for this to no avail. After spending a hour in there with 4 full size trash bags full and a jar of coins I was collecting up to save for him. Then the idea hit me. Since he has a mess and Mom cleaned it up the money I found in coins and few dollar bills are going to cleaning supplys anything left over is my tip for cleaning the room ! HA I bet I have 40 bucks in this jar. I might add the hour I spent in this room was just picking up trash and not looking at anything he might have in the cave. My hubby calls it a CAVE ! LOL. Now I have about 8 loads of laundry to wash outta this room now so I feel in entitled.

   Posted 09-14-2007 at 09:37 AM by MsVickie

2. 	LOLOL...right there with you on the son and the horrible room! I know exactly what you are going through. We have threatened to take the door off the hinges if we find anymore dishes or food in there!
   	Posted 09-16-2007 at 08:19 AM by kimtindall

3. We tried that. Didnt work. The smell just poured into the house. What is it with kids and them taking food into there rooms and letting it more or less rot? I dont understand that. He come home that day and called me on my cell. He THANKED ME FOR CLEANING IT UP! Now see most kids would have went balastic over this. Not mine??? I have litterally cleaned the hell outta my house in the last 3 days. I found that Kabam tub and tile cleaner really does a good job. I have the older kind of tub made from fiberglass. If you clean it daily you have no problems but if your like me you dont get to it but every week. I will never ever have one of them again. No wonder they have went back to making them from porcelin or what ever the nice white shine is. My bathroom is a new remodel job im trying to talk the hubby into now. Wish me luck !

   Posted 09-16-2007 at 10:31 AM by MsVickie

4. 	Sounds like you are all set to go. Keeping you in my prayers.
   	Posted 09-17-2007 at 06:11 AM by DocSanae

5. Thanks Doc. Today was my first day back at the job in a week and a day. It was ok to. They just had alot of questions that needed anwsering and stuff to be done. I have tried for 5 years now to train someone to take over for me if anything ever prevented me from comming in for a bit. Its not that simple. I love being missed but i get missed to much. Is that possible? I had to take my disablity papers in today to the Doc I work for so he could sign them. Im the poilcys adminstrator for the offie but I didnt want any questions to be rasied on me signing my own so I had him do it ! He seems excited. He told me he knew my surgeon very well and felt I was in great hands. In the medical field you can find out pretty much anything you want to about a Dr if you just ask questions. So I feel even better about things. I work tomorrow and do surgery at 7:30 am with a arrival time of 5:30 am and im so excited !!!!!!!!!! Still no nerves. I have to stay upbeat. I did have a lady ask me the question today of this........... Vickie are you still gonna be the upbeat one around here after wards? I said yes of course ! Genmel has sent me a special prayer. I will take that with me and have it with me Wends morning.

   Posted 09-17-2007 at 06:47 PM by MsVickie

6. Well this is the am before surgery. Im doing well. Still no nerves. A couple of my favorite patients are comming in today to be seen. These are cancer survivors. They have been so strong through there disease. I have to set and look at them and wonder exactly had they had the strength to overcome such a ugly and devistating thing. They are warriors. This is the name I gave them. They have helped give me the strength to save my own life by having this surgery. It will be so good to see them today as they are both 5 years out and considered disease free.

   Posted 09-18-2007 at 05:30 AM by MsVickie

7. This this the night before my surgery. Im doing great. I guess im one of the lucky ones acutally that get to eat up until midnight before. I will say I havnt been bad at all. I didnt have a last supper any time during this last mont or even today. I did eat a Hersheys with Almonds. Im not a big candy eater to begin with but I will have to say that is a favorite candy bar when I do eat one. I love strawberrie Icecream. I did have a normal serving of that also. My patients come in today looking so good. Giving me well wishes and telling me they would see me again in a few months when they come in for check ups. My phone has been ringing off the hook tonite. People checking up on me and stuff wishes and prayers. It feels good to have them do that.

   Posted 09-18-2007 at 06:57 PM by MsVickie

8. 	Are you home yet? Hope everything went smoothly, keeping you in my prayers. ((((((HUGS)))))
   	Posted 09-21-2007 at 09:17 AM by DocSanae

9. Well I finally made it back home 2 weeks and 4 days later. I had a adhesion complication they had to deal with 3 days after my GBS. This meant taking me into emergency surgery and fixing it. This put me in ICU for 4 days. The only complaint which is not really one is being so tired from it. Im completely exhausted from even taking a shower. I went to the Dr's today for my One week check after leaving the hospital and he told me I was still anemic but it seems to be improving. I just lost to much blood with that adhesion but thank goodness I didn't need a transfusion. Im just now finding out exactly what all happened to me. I don't wanna hear no more LOL. Anyways Im getting better daily. I still sleep Alot but he told me today that is what he wanted me to do right now considering all that I have been through.

   Posted 10-11-2007 at 04:25 PM by MsVickie

10. I feel much better today. Taking a shower still totally exhaust me for hours. Its part of the other healing the Dr said I have to do instead of just the GBS. My cat has this thing now of wanting to jump on my stomach as I lay down. She never did this one before. The older cat which is Mikes has left me alone during my time home. He just comes and sits beside me when im in the living room. Smart cat I would say. Mine the female who is just a year old this month still has alot of kitten in her but she is faithfully mine. I cant go anywhere without her beside me. She is quiet though so I cant complain. Somtimes I feel like I should be doing more but my body just wont let me yet. Its depressing but I know I need the rest. Im sleeping like 14 hours a day. The Dr told me that is what I needed to do. Never have I ever slept like this but it seems to help each day with my strength.

    Posted 10-14-2007 at 06:28 PM by MsVickie

11. Not feeling really well today. Im better than I was but just kinda blah. I still have to take some pain meds which concern me a tad. I know I probally still need them But the last thing I want is to become addicted to them. What Im taking is Loratab liquid. It does the job very well however this is a medication that is addictive. I go back to see the surgeon on Thursday so mabye he can change it. When I was sent home with it it was every 6 hours. Alot of the times I had to take it much sooner. Now im about every 8 hours. Being a nurse i suppose I worry about those things more. I will be sure to talk to the Dr Thursday about it.

    Posted 10-15-2007 at 07:12 PM by MsVickie

12. Had my first foamies? Throwing up with nothing comming up? Strange acutally. I think I drank my V-8 juice to fast this am. Then needed a drink of water behind it. I have been fine since. I had to call the Dr over the pain meds a day early because I was out. He seemed to think that i was Ok on what i was taking and renewed the RX. It sure does help to take it. I go see im tomorrow so I will update then.

    Posted 10-17-2007 at 09:17 PM by MsVickie

13. Went to see the surgeon again today. He left my drain in because its still putting to much out. I will be soooo glad when its gone. I knew going today it wasnt gonna be pulled because of the amounts still comming out. He did tell me today I could start chewing food. Very tiny amounts at a time but I could start. So now I start my mushy part to this. He said I should feel some better then since hes gonna let me have some food. LOL. Im scared to try but surely want to. I have craved nothing but this..... a tiny piece of toast with tomato on it. Nothing else. I was a very big tomato toast fan before this surgery. I would put nothing else on it but a tad bit of salt for the tomato. I asked him this. He said sure. Make sure I chew it very well and try to make the tomato as wet as I can get it for the toast part. Im not a big bread eater to begin with and was worryed I couldnt have a small square of toast but he Oked it. What I mean is a regular piece of bread cut into quarters. Eating just the quarter piece. Ok So I will try FOOD for the first time in 4 weeks wish me luck

    Posted 10-18-2007 at 06:59 PM by MsVickie

14. 	Ok time for a update. I have started (eating) mushy foods. This really helped my energy. I keep it down well. I dont eat much but it seems like heaven on what little bit I can eat. I eat Chili tonite. Kidney beans with tomatoes etc....including hamburger. It went down excellent and has stayed down with no problems as of yet.
    	Posted 10-22-2007 at 08:15 PM by MsVickie

15. 	No one will ever know the taste of food unless they have had this surgery. To be able to taste real food again is unreal. Even thou its in teaspoon portions it taste so good. I was telling Kenya the other day I dont know if I really ever tasted food before. I went back to the Dr today and had a good check up. My drain was pulled. I go back in a week. Im 47 pounds down.
    	Posted 10-25-2007 at 02:34 PM by MsVickie

16. Been a while since I updated this. Gessh how time goes. Even when your not having fun so to speak. I went back to work 8 weeks out from surgery and can honestly say I still was not ready but felt compled and wanted to. I was so hard. About 3 days before I went back I started being naused all the time. Every hour of the day. This went on for a bit then the nausea would turn into vomiting. This become very bad. I contacted my Drs office to find out he was leaving for 3 weeks litteraly without a back up Dr to help if somthing arose. He did give me Phenegran for the nausea. It was so hard to work with this medication because it makes me sleep. It always has. I was back at work on my third week when my employer decided to downsize me. This was Dec 3rd. I was upset and happy at the same time. if you have never felt that emotion yet let me tell you it drags at you hard. I realized at that moment I wasnt ready to return to work when I did. This was a very hard surgery on me with my complications that followed and I dont guess I realized how bad it affected my body. I continued to have the nausea and vomiting. I contacted my surgeons office again asking for advice or who could see me. They advised me to go to the ER and have them do scans and Xrays on me. I did this. It showed nothing to them. They admited they didnt know what to look for and to see my surgeon when he returned. I just kept getting worse. I went to see my PCP. He was really concered about the whole thing. He put me on three different stomach meds to help with digestion. This didnt seem to help much but I took them anyways. I had several IV's during this time because I was becomming dehyradted. The day my surgeon returned I was put in to see him. He set me up for another EGD. I had this 2 days later. He said my tummy never woke up from my surgery. What was happeneing was my food would go down and sit. Then instead of moving on into the intestine....aka haveing the tummy work it around it would instead come back up through vomiting. He massaged the stomach some while I was still out and had me go back to just liquids for 7 days. He called daily asking about my progress even on the weekends. I am feeling better now. The nausea has gone. Instead of throwing up 2-4 times per day its down to 2-3 times a week. Yes that is a blessing considering what I was dealing with for a while. When I first had this surgery I was very happy I had done it. During the 6 weeks of Nausea and Vomiting I endured I really thought...... ok what did I do to myself? Right now im happy again that I had it done. I know its not right I have bounced back and forth on that issue but......the nausea was simply horrible. That is somthing I wouldnt wish on my worst enemy. Right now Im home not working. I am looking for a job and drawing unemployment. I have had the chance to let my body heal and I AM really now feeling much better. I think i needed that break to let myself get better. I miss my old job and my friends however......I dont miss the boss LOL!!!! I get a weekly call still telling me about all his new silly rules and changes and their all wanting to just quit. I do feel bad for them. Would i go back? NO WAY! That added sevearly to my stress and I mean seaverly. They still call asking how to do somthing. It depends on the question and who ask it. He still dont get the benefit of my wisdom but the ladies do. I have since I first started this blog had to deal with alot of the emotional issues from my surgery. Im not speaking of the I lost my best friend food issue......Im talking about dealing with what happened to me during and after. Its been hard. At first i didnt wanna hear what happened what went wrong.....but then I found I had to deal with that part because of all the questions in my brain. No matter how science has evolved there are still alot of thing that can go wrong and will if its being done on ME ! LOL. Trust me. I wont go into that part because it became scary however im alive and doing better right now. Im down 93 lbs in 3 and a half months. No way I could have did that on my own.

    Posted 01-03-2008 at 07:07 PM by MsVickie

17. Today has been a strange day for me. I woke up about 12 am and noticed I had alot of heartburn but the tummy was on fire to. I drank a bit of milk and took my Nexium. Set up for a while and proped myself up to sleep. I awoke several times with the same problems. I have noticed when the tummy dont feel good boy the salavia you put out. The day consisted of throwing up a couple of times and finally i decided to do a protein shake. It helped. I dont know if it coated the tummy or what but it surely helped. I have spread what little meds I have to take now thoughout the day. They seem to set my tummy on fire. The meds I take are not avaiable in liquid form. Grrrrr. I will figure this out yet. I have to !

    Posted 01-04-2008 at 08:02 PM by MsVickie

18. Hi MsVickie we do have alot in common when it comes to our surgeries, I however don’t think my journey has been as bumpy as yours, here is an e-mail I sent to my group of friends from work to tell them about my days off….. Hay everybody I’m so sorry this is so long in getting to everyone ….YES I have had a harder time then I would have liked or even expected. I had 2 surgeries in 2 days. I lost more then 980 cc’s of blood just by sitting up and then once the 2nd surgery was done they had took out 1400cc’s of clotted blood, so I had to stay in the hospital till that Saturday. They gave me 2 units of blood in surgery and then 2 more on Friday. I was really really sore and my throat was so dry… I hadn’t had any thing to eat or drink since Monday midnight the day before and then to have 2 surgeries and then tube down my throat twice. I come home with a drain in me still and have to drain it and record the amount to give to the Dr. and that doesn’t come out till just this Monday, then Monday night I get the chills and a fever and go back to the DR. on Wednesday and now that is infected and I have to take pills for it and my side is still very sore I cant sleep on my side so the recliner and I have become very good friends I’m afraid to say. The food at first some things tasted really sweet and some things just don’t taste good any more. I can eat a yogurt and a little amount of lunch meat for either lunch or dinner or have cottage cheese and the same little lunch meat and that will be all and I have to watch how much so I don’t through it up. I’ve been really tired most of the time off and have slept A LOT it takes a lot out of me to do much right now but that will change soon. I’ll be back Monday and hope to see you then, come by and say Hi Its so weird how some things stay down and some don’t and how it seams like I’m going down the same path that you have already taken, I hope that some days we will be at the same point on this path.

    Posted 03-21-2008 at 10:35 PM by Madame flutterby

19. Ok 5 months later I decide to post here again? Im stupid. LOL. Things are going well with me now. I have the energy I lost for several months. Its because I can acutally eat somthing more than a teaspoon. Yes its a great thing. Still no working but looking hard right now because the unemployment is gonna run out soon. Im picky and might have to accept a job until somthing else turns up better who knows. I sure hope not. Im 56 lbs from goal and its slowly comming off now. Im gald its slowed down because it litteraly kicked my butt falling off so fast. I lost to fast........ yes im glad its gone but man oh man LOL. Im a different person than most that has lost on this site. Mine was totally different in the way it come off and the way I healed etc.... But its a good thing we can share our expericences with it. I finally made peace with my surgery and the complications I had. Yes it scared me to death after the surgery. Enough to suffer from PTSD. I have noticed that when I get worried about somthing now I do start shaking alot. Here I am the strong woman or thought I was and broke down to shaking pile of nerves. I suppose the closer you get to death it will do it to ya. Oh well.... that is behind me.

    Posted 05-11-2008 at 07:10 PM by MsVickie

20. Ok Its July 5th. I would really like to do more blogs but time dont allow it. Im doing great. I have started a new job and I love it. Im tired when I get home which to me means I have worked that day. Its a good feeling. Its a good kind of tired. I have stalled out on losing weight however.......... I am losing inches by leaps and bounds. I cant keep myself in clothes. Nice problem to have as long as the sizes are getting smaller. I havnt weighed this little since I was a senior in highschool. I dont mind seeing my old classmates now. I still look the same as far as facial features go. Sure Im looking older than I did when I was 18 but they all reconize me. Its strange as you lose weight that people are just plain nicer to you. Its sad they cant be that way all the time.

    Posted 07-05-2008 at 10:50 AM by MsVickie

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