Hospital recovery

Whew y’all .... what a week. The days and nights are starting to blend together but I’ll try to give you the highlights.

Bowel prep Monday was as fun as ever. Only clear liquids to eat and pounding a whole bottle of miralax in Gatorade. Uggg getting nauseated just thinking about it.

The kids left Monday night to go to Wil’s parents for the week. We had to wake up super early for a check in time at 5:30 am at the hospital . After getting checked in, changed into my hospital attire, I had to say goodbye to my family in the hallway to preop and will came back with me. We had to sign all the consents and meet with all of the doctors. Our team was amazing and I was blessed to have an old ICU coworker set me up with a great CRNA. She gave me some Versed and I don’t remember much after that.

In surgery, my docs found more than what was expected from the scans. My surgeons took out about two feet of small intestines and part of the large where the one mass was seen. The lymph node was taken out as well. Then there were places on my bladder that had to be removed, the largest one about the size of a thumbnail. The good news is that they were able to remove the tumors, I had less adhesions than the last surgery, and no illeostomy!

So they left the catheter in to allow my bladder to stay decompressed and allow to heal. The game plan is to remove it today and then allow me to pee and then scan my bladder to ensure I’m fully emptying it.

The first room they put me in was hot as hades. Apparently the lady wh8o was in it before me had it set to 80 degrees, so I became very nauseated. So after engineering came in and couldn’t get the air to work , I was transferred to the room next door.

That day is still really foggy. The following day I was advanced to clear liquids, which backfired. I was throwing up all night and extremely nauseated. Dr. Stuart took me back to ice chips and started some medication to help my bowels to move. The first day that I wasn’t sleeping all day and felt more like myself was Saturday. Today is even better. I have only been on Tylenol for pain for several days and medicine for gas. I am on a regular diet and handling it well.

Dr. Skinner just did rounds and I'm going home today! Just waiting on orders and getting this catheter out!

Thank you all for the prayers and support. God has answered a lot of prayers. Please pray for continued healing.

Breakfast on Sunday

Pancake socks since I couldn't eat

Apparently I took a selfie after surgery

Going for a walk

Sunrise on one of our morning walks

Just one of my many bruises

Waiting in pre-op