Saturday, May 9, 2009

Done with surgery..

Surgery yesterday went well. It took longer than expected though, about 6 hours. He cut my femur in half (the osteotomy), did some osteoplasty, and repaired my hip capsule which in his words was "Shot to hell". It was mostly scar tissue so a lot of the time was spent trying to find good tissue. I know have a plate and three pretty big screws. They had to do a blood transfusion yesterday after my surgery but used my own blood that I lost.. they just sent it through this machine that cleans it and stuff. I almost had another one last night bc my blood pressure is so low.. we are trying to get that brought up! Since last night it has been about 87/35.. they just took my bloood to check my hemoglobin and hematocrit to make sure that I still have enough.

Pain is being controlled fairly well.. I still have the epidural in so that has my leg completely numb. They are taking this out today though so I'm sure its going to get rough. Im just so itchy with it in, I get the same way with morphine so they are going to get me diludad instead.

Good news is they did everything through my old scar! They had to extend it a few inches but thats okay, I'm just glad I don't have two scars now - they thought they were going to need to go through the top of my leg.

Therapy is coming today and they are going to have me start to move around the room a little.. it will be nice to get out of bed but I'm worried its going to be painful!

Oh yea, my throat is terrbile sore bc I was incubated for 6 hours. And my mouth has never been so dry in my entire life. I have literally drank 5 pitchers of water and its STILL dry!

An added bonus to all this.. every one of my doctors/surgeons is GORGEOUS! My mom and I were joking around, its like a petting zoo around here. I don't know how I managed to get hot guys to help me but I'm liking it! Ha I'm sure Bryce is too :-), Don't worry Brycearoni.. I'd still have you my love than anyone else, but I'm just enjoying being gaga.. hahaha

Welp, I'm about to pass out.. just wanted to update everyone. Pray that I don't need another blood transfusion and hopefully we can get my BP past 87/35!

Lov everyone, thanks for the prayers and support it means soo much to me.

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