Got discharged from the hospital around 3:00PM this afternoon and am now home. Surgery went well — 10:00AM Monday. The anesthesiologist was very good except that my legs didn't recover until late that evening. A classic case of rubberlegs.
I started PT on Tuesday with walking and stepping up onto a platform.
I have some restriction in movement until the dissected muscles heal but I am now completely pain free — the only thing I feel is the ache from the incision and that will go away.
Had an interesting event with the painkillers — they have been giving me Percoset, two tabs every five hours. This worked except they would wear off and it took about 30-45 minutes for the next batch to take effect. Last evening, the night nurse said that he could give me my dose an hour early. This was at 10:00PM and since I wanted to get a solid nights sleep I said sure.
I spent the next three hours having the most wonderful hallucinations. They were on a Hieronymus Bosch theme (with a bit of Eduard Gorey thrown in for fun). Not scary at all — a lot of fun. What crowned off the whole experience is that my blanket was heavily textured and in my “dream state” I would be manipulating a branch and then I would wake up and realize that I was fondling the roughness of the blanket.
Comments are turned back on and blogging will resume in full tomorrow or the next day.
Posted by DaveH at September 17, 2008 04:57 PM | TrackBackGlad to hear you're back home and doing well. It's really amazing the surgical repairs & replacements that are being done these days. My only recommendation- don't over do it with too much exertion.
Posted by: Nate at September 17, 2008 08:39 PM