[Adalaide]

My surgery last week went really well. I had printouts handy for my appointment with my surgeon, and for the staff at the hospital. There was a small issue with getting an IV in me at first because you tell a person not to drink all night before they come in and they'll be dehydrated and have crappy veins. They blew a vein before they called the anesthesiologist and had him do it. One and done. The only thing I took issue with in prep was that they wouldn't let me wear my "street socks" which are my fuzzy socks and I refused to wear their crappy, rough socks. So I had to go without. Their gowns instead of the regular hospital gowns were these fancy paper thingers that can be heated or vented that was actually super comfy. We found a suitable solution together to the thingers on my legs too.

Apparently my husband says they kept me in recovery for a long time because they had issues getting my pain under control. I vaguely remember waking up and them asking me about pain and telling them "oh god it hurts" and there was morphine and I slept again. There was ice and someone kept harassing me to be awake but I was so sleepy. I find it all very amusing.

They wouldn't let me out of bed until around 9 that night. But they also said I could eat whatever I wanted so my husband brought me my meatloaf from home and it was so nice to have real food. By morning they told me I could have those stupid "so you don't get clots things" on my legs off if I got up for a walk every hour or two, so I did.

Overall everything was great. Everyone was super nice to me. The nurses were really good about asking to touch me and no one ever tried to put a cuff on my left arm. (Which is good for them because I can't vouch for anyone's safety if they did while I was on morphine.) The best part was though that while we did have trouble until early the following morning with keeping my pain at the surgery site under control, I woke up with zero pain otherwise. Zip, zero, zilch. And until the morphine wore completely off the day after I was home, it didn't start to come back. The percocet even helps to take the edge off of it. I never thought I'd have a moment's respite from the burning, and it's back full force. I forgot what it felt like to not feel like this. And now, on top of it I won't have to suffer every month from stupid painful periods any more. It's just this and my migraines for pain. I can handle that.