Monday, September 10, 2012
Well Hello folks! Just wanted to give you an update of today! Got up at 6:00am :P *yay* and literally put on my sweats, tank top, jacket, and ducky slippers (wore my ducky slippers last time I had surgery) and walked across the block to the hospital. We checked in, and went straight to the Cath Lab. My nurse, Jo was very helpful, and I put the little gown and pants on, and let the doctors introduce themselves, and give me a numbing patch on my forearm, where the IV would be inserted. Let me tell you something for those of you reading this who maybe don't know: I HATE NEEDLES!! But.. that numbing patch... They should sell them at Wally World! They really work! Anyway, after they inserted the IV, it had already been 2 hours, so it was 8 am... they flushed my IV with Saline, then gave me something to calm me down (I was already as calm as could be, so I'm not quite sure why I had to be even MORE calm... I was just ready to get it done, you know?) Everything was a blur after that... My vision was all *wooooo weeeee* If you get what I'm trying to say ;) and I remember someone saying something like, let's go. And then the next thing I Know, I'm in this room and they are switching my bed, and putting a blue hair net on me, and getting oxygen masks ready. I will tell you a secret: This lady says: Ok, I'm just making a few marks on your feet, but I couldn't really feel it good. I knew something was being done, but I was thinking, "I'd never know if they were cutting my feet! Well, there goes my Achilles tendon!" HAHAHA at the same time, the anesthesiologist says Alright, have a good sleep, and A few peope pat me on the arm and say the same. The next thing I know I'm waking up to my mom taking pictures of me with my One Direction Dolls on the bed with me:)! That was at about 11... I'd gotten out of surgery at 10am, so I only slept for around an hour. JO checked on me, and I talked for a little while, then watched Big Brother on the computer for about 3 hours... I couldn't get up until four, so I had a looong time to wait! Then a bajillion doctors came in, and it was 4pm already!! Goes by fast with BB14 and doctors talking. They'd set my pacemaker up to 100, meaning that 100 BPM would be the lowest my heart could go during the surgery. That put my blood pressure really low though, and so did my previous pacemaker settings, so they decided to set it up to 80 BPM, which is where I wanted it in the first place. The doctors are also told me that they were thinking of taking me off of one of my meds, because it wasn't really doing anything to help, and it was making me dizzy. After a while, the Doctor in charge of the Transplantations came to talk to us. He said that yes, I was symptomatic, but after all the data they collected today, and reviewed from previous tests, that I was not anywhere close to needing to be on the transplant list. He said that I probably wouldn't need one for quite a while. He wants to schedule a stress test for a couple weeks from now, and wants to get me on the schedule for yearly Caths. So yeah! No transplant for now, and it's been a pretty good day, since I am apparently one oof the people that doesn't get sore from these, and have had no pain other than this annoying little IV in my arm that throbs when I type this much! So I'm just chillin here in the hospita, eating whatever I can find, and watching WInnie the Pooh, and Pokemon, and talking to you! I'm thinking about posting a few pictures, and after I take a walk, I am goung to create a Facebook Page for the website, so you can go "Like" it, and automatically know when I've updated it:) Love you all, and thank you for the comments! They brighten my day:)
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