I woke up at about 4 AM the next day to a dark room with the breathing tube down my throat and searing pain down my entire back. The nurses came in and took the tube out and not much is really remembered. I was still pretty out of it. The pain was bad. I had a patient controlled morphine drip to administer the medicine which I think was every 7 minutes. It would beep when it actually dispensed the medicine. So you can press it all you want before the 7 minutes are up and nothing. But when you hit the 7 minute mark and you press it, it beeps. I can remember thinking those 7 minute intervals went by so slowly.
I remembered reading on a website prior to surgery that some people could feel their rods and other couldn't . Well, right after surgery I definitely felt them-a lot (now I don't but for the months I was recovering I was very aware of them). The doctors came in later on in the day and made up sit up. That was about the most painful thing to do.They also have you roll on your side- also a very painful thing to do. I was pretty much in constant pain and the medication just took some of the edge off.
Most of the time I slept. My family came in to see me in the ICU and I would fall asleep while they were talking to me.
I remembered reading on a website prior to surgery that some people could feel their rods and other couldn't . Well, right after surgery I definitely felt them-a lot (now I don't but for the months I was recovering I was very aware of them). The doctors came in later on in the day and made up sit up. That was about the most painful thing to do.They also have you roll on your side- also a very painful thing to do. I was pretty much in constant pain and the medication just took some of the edge off.
Most of the time I slept. My family came in to see me in the ICU and I would fall asleep while they were talking to me.
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