Thanks Dave. I'm confident it will all pay off. I am healing
well and will have the stitches out this week. I go back to Hopkins 3rd
week in June. I'm so excited to get rid of this foley. I'm so sick
of leaking. I have a small sore on the inside of my leg by my pelvic area
and leaking isn't helping the healing at all. I'm sure the leaking is from
bladder spasms since they operated on it. My doctor recommended Motrin
between the oxybutin but it's not helping much. I am doing so well that I
barely touched the pain medicine they gave me.
Stacy
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Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 5:15 PM
Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] I'm home
Hi Stacy,
Another experience I'm sure you're glad to have behind you.
I'm happy you're home, but know you are happier about it. It is
great to see you home and posting!
With Love,
CtrlAltDel aka Dave C4/5 Complete - 29 Years Post Texas,
USA Stacy Harim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Hey everybody I'm home.
Let me tell you that hospitals are not always set up even if you try to
prepare early. We need to make sure doubly. When I made the
arrangements to be admitted, I let them know what I needed for a commode
since I am not able to transfer to a toilet. They assured me that they
would have it. Different story when I got there. I should have
done my bowel prep at home. I got there at 9 a.m. and let them know
what I needed and they told me they didn't even have a drop arm
commode. They ended up picking me up to put me on the standard commode
they had. I drank the nasty mags citrate and didn't have any results.
They gave me a suppository, nothing. They made me drink mineral oil
and milk of magnesia, nothing. They then put me back in bed and gave
me an enema. I was put on the commode at 9 p.m. and they had security
put me back in bed at 4. I was never so humiliated in my life when
they did that. I guess the night nurses are too good for
lifting. The sad thing is that I am not that heavy that they shouldn't
have been able to do it themselves. If they had the commode I needed,
I could have digitally stimulated and been done hours before. They had
no compassion about it. I cried the whole entire night and all they kept
telling me is that my bowels needed to be emptied for the surgery.
Well I knew that but doesn't help when they put me through what they
did. I'm glad I didn't have to go back to that floor after surgery but
my doctor did say that he went back to them and let them have it. I
should have known better than to schedule the surgery on my 4th yr
anniversary. It just had a bad vibe all together.
I ended up going to the step down unit of the I.C.U. because they
didn't have room anywhere. I spent 2 days there where the care was of
course great and then off to a regular floor again where they treated me so
well. They were so sympathetic to my pain. It's been a week
since the surgery and I am still sore. I feel like I should be back to
my old routine as soon as my skin heals and the staples come out. I
know all the aggravation will be worth it then. So far my only
regret is that I didn't make absolute sure that the hospital had some sort
of commode that they arm rest removed so I could do the transfer.
I should be able to use the stoma to cath in a couple of
weeks. I'm excited. they left the foley in place until that
happens. They lifted my bladder, turned up the ureter (sp?) so I wont
leak after they take out the foley. The doctor mentioned a port I
could get to hook to my large intestines so I could flush my bowels.
It's a tube from my abdomen to my large intestines. I just flush
through a mini emema or even warm water when I want to do my bowel prep and
I'm done in no time. I don't really have bowel issues aside from
sitting there waiting a long time and since they were there doing the stoma
anyhow, the doctors seemed to think it was a good idea. If I don't
like it then I can get it removed in an office visit.
For those of you that wished me well, thank you, I appreciate it.
Stacy
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