slimmerkay
New Member
Hi folks. I'm back home and back on my laptop - which is much better than using the i phone all the time.
So I went in on Saturday morning after much turmoil about whether the funding would come through in time. It did - at the eleventh hour!
I got to The Spire at 6.45am and was in my room for 7.20am. It was then a quick sucession of being weighed, unpacking my bag, speaking to the anaethetist and Mr Ammori and getting tagged up and gowned up and then the nurse was there at 8.15am to say "OK you're going down now"
So quick!
I wasn't nervous at all (although hubby certainly was) until I got to the pre-op room. You walk down to it. I got on the bed and the nerves hit. I started crying Anyway, had the pre-op that makes you drunk feeling and then he said "I'm going to put you to sleep now Karen" and then I was waking up in recovery.
I remember all of recovery, despite being told I probably wouldn't. My nose itched a little with the morphine. And I kept sleeping but waking myself up either snoring or going "Uuurrrggghhhh" - really quite funny.
I was back in the room for 10.30am and I was attached to the padded shin things that tighten on your legs intermittently to prevent clots. And a drip was put up for pain killer and fluids. I slept most of the day.
The pain from the wind was awful. I was crying with it at one point. But hardly any pain from the surgery. Just a pulling sensation when I moved and feeling a little tender.
I had water only all day Saturday. Then a muller light 50/50 with milk for breakfast Sunday with a cup of tea. A little chicken consume soup with same muller light drink thing for lunch. Same consume soup and sugar free jelly for dinner. But I had to ask for another cup of tea in the afternoon.
I have to say Mr Ammori is amazing, the staff at The Spire are wonderful but I am not impressed with The Spire itself. I was left alone all day long apart from BP and temp checks twice a day and unless I buzzed for help. And I think to feed a bypass patient at only 8.30, 1pm and 5.30pm with no offer of beverages in between or anything else is a bit much. I know Ditzeeblonde was offered fluid food every few hours.
Anyway, that's my story. I was glad to get home this lunchtime - oh and that's another thing. I left the hospital at 1.10pm and they knew I had an hours journey at least to home and they did not offer me lunch before leaving!
So I went in on Saturday morning after much turmoil about whether the funding would come through in time. It did - at the eleventh hour!
I got to The Spire at 6.45am and was in my room for 7.20am. It was then a quick sucession of being weighed, unpacking my bag, speaking to the anaethetist and Mr Ammori and getting tagged up and gowned up and then the nurse was there at 8.15am to say "OK you're going down now"
So quick!I wasn't nervous at all (although hubby certainly was) until I got to the pre-op room. You walk down to it. I got on the bed and the nerves hit. I started crying
Anyway, had the pre-op that makes you drunk feeling and then he said "I'm going to put you to sleep now Karen" and then I was waking up in recovery.I remember all of recovery, despite being told I probably wouldn't. My nose itched a little with the morphine. And I kept sleeping but waking myself up either snoring or going "Uuurrrggghhhh" - really quite funny.
I was back in the room for 10.30am and I was attached to the padded shin things that tighten on your legs intermittently to prevent clots. And a drip was put up for pain killer and fluids. I slept most of the day.
The pain from the wind was awful. I was crying with it at one point. But hardly any pain from the surgery. Just a pulling sensation when I moved and feeling a little tender.
I had water only all day Saturday. Then a muller light 50/50 with milk for breakfast Sunday with a cup of tea. A little chicken consume soup with same muller light drink thing for lunch. Same consume soup and sugar free jelly for dinner. But I had to ask for another cup of tea in the afternoon.
I have to say Mr Ammori is amazing, the staff at The Spire are wonderful but I am not impressed with The Spire itself. I was left alone all day long apart from BP and temp checks twice a day and unless I buzzed for help. And I think to feed a bypass patient at only 8.30, 1pm and 5.30pm with no offer of beverages in between or anything else is a bit much. I know Ditzeeblonde was offered fluid food every few hours.
Anyway, that's my story. I was glad to get home this lunchtime - oh and that's another thing. I left the hospital at 1.10pm and they knew I had an hours journey at least to home and they did not offer me lunch before leaving!
