I'm home

And first of all I have to say that I am really touched by all the emails, comments, etc today! I came home to tons of well wishes and thoughts. It means a lot!!

I got home around 1pm, and just got out of bed for the first time. My husband said I had tons of email, so I decided to come on and take a look. Surgery went well. I was in for about an hour and 20 mins I think he said. It was laproscopic, and I have 4 cuts. 3 on the upper right of the stomach, under the boob area and the normal one in the belly button. That one seems to hurt the most right now. I have internal stitches, and the weird glue closure on top. I can shower tomorrow but was instructed "quick showers" for the next week. I go back on Friday morning for my first post op.

I had a few mental breakdowns while waiting on surgery. I didn't sleep much since Saturday night, and it all just got to me. I felt really stupid because when they said how it works and how I'll drift off, I started crying and the guy looked pretty uncomfortable. Then he said he would bring me something to take the edge off early. Normally it's done when I'm waiting to go in the OR but I got mine in the first holding area. I remember them doing that, then I remember getting told to kiss my husband goodbye quick, and then the next thing I remember they were asking me to scoot over to the OR table and were telling me all about what they were doing. Then they did the gas mask thing and said to take 2 deep breathes and I'll be asleep. I took a few, and said "hey this isn't working! What if it doesn't work?!" and he laughed and I was out. I woke up and didn't have much pain at first. They had me wrapped in really warm blankets, they had already done the anti-nausea meds before I woke up, and I had my pain meds too. About 20 mins later, I started feeling some pain so I got some good stuff, and more anti-nausea because I have history of the good pain meds making me barfy. So they saved me, I got the good meds, and I didn't feel bad. I was so tired. I zoned out of most of the questions, got transferred down to the final room, my husband came in and I kept zoning out on him. He would wake me and say if I could stay awake for a few mins, drink my ginger ale and sit up, they would release me. So I forced that to happen, and I got out of there before 12. Zoned the whole way home.

So for now, I have help with Kristopher through tomorrow. He's back to work tomorrow, but my mom is off. I can sleep in. I can lay around and do nothing. I have a good bit of pain, and took 1 vicoden so far. I plan on taking 2 and going to bed soon. I just wanted some time with K and my husband before he's back to his busy schedule. Kristopher insisted on seeing what they did, so now he's being extra careful and freaked by "mommy's boo boos". I've been snacking on crackers all day. I'm semi scared to eat more than that. Tomorrow I'll try soup. My throat also hurts really bad from being innobated. I keep coughing and that hurts. The only other issue I'm having is I have to pee about every hour or so, and it's a forever process.

Sorry this is all rambled and weird. And I didn't spell check. I'm still on the vic. high and semi zoning again. Thanks again for all the wonderful comments and emails today. It means a lot!