Im home and buzzing again!!!
 

Morning all

Well Im finally home.......with my new battery in place woohoooo.....

Went in on Tuesday full of beans looking forward:eek:to having the old battery taken out and the new one put in. Got to hospital bout 11am and at 3.50pm I was in the theatre waiting to be 'put under'

My Dr. came into me and explained all he was going to do and we signed a couple of more forms:rolleyes:He then said!!!!!

'You know you and me shouldnt be here this isnt our fault. I am going to have words NOW with the Rep.(who was waiting in the theatre for us to arrive)and make sure all you expenses are fullly met by the company. AND if there is any hesitation I will be telling her that I certainly wont be using their company again in the future'

I was so pleased because as you can imagine its hard enough going into hospital but having to pay out TWICE for the same procedure was just not on.

So when we arrived in the anaestetic room, my Rep came over to me and said ' dont worry Jackie everything will be sorted for you and we will get the expenses taken care of asap';)

So that was a blessing, finally she was listening!!! so grateful that my Dr. also stood up to the plate.

I was then put to sleep zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz bliss:D

I woke about 5.45pm in the recovery room and glad it was all over. Was eventually brought back to my room and had a lovely nights sleep.

Then yesterday morning my Dr. visited me again and told me he had put some local around my pocket that should last up to 48hours:eek:now I was wondering how come I didnt feel so sore, thought I had gotten away with that , but heck no.....boy do I feel it this morning......

Got all my programmes sorted out and then took it easy for the rest of the day. Tomorrow I have to go and have a wound review.

So Im just home now EXHAUSTED and have now started a lovely flu like symptons, so Im back in bed!!!.......

Still extremely tired, which is so unusal for me as I dont sleep a lot, but then Ive a combination of medications to take, antibotics, painkillers, you name it Ive got it.......

Going to go back to rest now, thank you all for you good wishes too

Jackie :grouphug:

I am so glad....
 

Hi :hug::hug::hug::hug:Jackie, I am so glad that everything went okay and that they are finally listening to you! I am sorry you are feeling sick though and hope that you feel better very soon. I hope that this new battery gives you better pain relief and that you are feeling a lot better! I have been thinking about you and praying for you :) Take care, Tara.

THRILLLED for you Jackie
 

YES INDEEDY, THRILLED FOR YOU!

I guess that says it.
Yep,
Mark56:grouphug:

I was SOOOO wanting to read this post!
Answered prayer!
Hats off to your doctor! and the Rep! Wow! I'm impressed!

I can sure understand that you are so very tired. I don't know what it is about anesthesia....but I just couldn't seem to get enough sleep! I guess we just have to sleep it off.

I hope your incision site is doing good, nothing oozing right?
I got a bit concerned when you said you have flu like symptoms....I hope there's no fever or anything that would indicate possible infection.
Just a real 'tired' feeling......... yes?

You've been thru enough!
This should not have happened.....and I can only hope this will spark a company quality assurance review. :eek:
So sorry you had to pay the price of a battery gone bad....but SO relieved to know that you won't literally be 'paying any price'......
That sure takes a load off!

Get your rest dear Jackie!
:hug::grouphug::hug:

Feeling awful tbh:(
 

I've had the worst two nights ever. Feeling really cold then hot and very feverish. I too am hoping it's only a cold I've picked up from hospital. Going for wound review later this morning. Can't sleep properly as both my legs are soooo restless and achy. So much so that I've had to turn OFF my stim to try and get some sleep. Plus we had to change bed linen twice in the night. So annoying as I was so much better and brighter on Tues after the op.

Anyway will see what Dr says. Hope its not infection. That would just be my luck wouldn't it!!!!

Yes thankfully all expenses will be sorted too my Rep has been so good and emailed me exactly what's happening at this stage.

Hope you are all keeping well. Yes Rae the tiredness is unreal. Takes me back to those first days after my big fusion ops!!!! Just gonna try to take it easy. Well I've no choice ive no energy anyway.

Will keep you all posted. :hug:

Review
 

Well went for my wound review today. All looks neat and tidy. So I'm told. Well I couldn't see behind me:D so back again on Tues for new dressing. Still feeling yuky. Dr thinks I have a viral infection. So I'm here feeling crap and sorry for myself too. Havent felt this bad for a long long time.

Hope it goes soon as I need a good nights sleep.

Jackie:grouphug:

For Jackie
 

I have a good friend, name of Jackie
who feels from a virus, pure yukky.
I would send her a smile,
from mile after mile,
but draw one one here, is quite beyond me.

So take on the limit of smilies
I'll send until NT denies me.
'Cause Jackie, our dear
is needin some cheer,
and next will you find all I could beam thee!

:circlelove::Popcorn::icon_smile::Trapeze 2::Girl(angel-flying)::You-Rock::smileypray::Crazy 2::Heart::BeamUp::grin::icon_mrgreen::Dancing-Chilli::sing::Head-Spin:

Feel BETTER Soon,
Mark56

Sorry to hear you're feeling bad on top of having the replacement put in :hug::hug:

Great news, tho', on the financial part of the whole thing. I'm sure that's a relief off your shoulders.

Are you cutting up your lidocaine patches and placing them around (not "on") your implant incision site? I remember someone suggesting I do that (was it you?) and it really helped a lot.

Give yourself some time to get over this. You may be having to turn it off for a while because your nerves are being overly stimulated from having a new implant put in so soon after the first one. They may be unhappy about being messed with again. Just sleep, sleep, sleep if you can and let your body have some down time. You're in my thoughts and prayers:)

Sending my ((((HUGS)))) and ((((PRAYERS)))) as well.....

Rest, REST and then REST some more!

So sorry you are feeling so poorly. :(
We need our Jackie back! Better than ever!
.....and you need your life back!

Yes, let's hope this is something that is fading away as we speak.....Well, you are probably curled up sleeping....at least I sure hope you are!
Do you still have the chills and sweating?

:hug::grouphug::hug:

Thanks guys
 

Ah you are all so good with your lovely wishes and beautiful poem from Mark too :hug:

Still not great this morning, but had a bit of a better sleep last night, thankfully. Still needed to change bed linen though:mad:cant be much more left in me!!!

Feeling quite hot now and weak and have completely lost my appetite, which would be a blessing if I was trying to lose the weight but Im just not hungry now.

Yes Fiona I am using my patches ....Im quite bruised:eek:around my battery area but I guess thats from all the pulling and tugging trying to get that faulty battery out...Im so mad to think Ive had to go through all this suffering again and its not that long since I was here before......

Anyway will sign off for now and go back to sleep and catch up with you all later

Thanks again:grouphug: