Surgery Day Part 2 Home

Thursday, September 20, 2012

My mom drove me home after we left the surgery center and I wasn't tired at all so I just sat on the couch in the bonus room of our house.  I had to prop my arm up above my heart with the help of the "cheese" foam.  I had to move my whole arm with my right hand because my left arm was like dead weight and I still had no feeling in my hand or in my fingers.  They told me as soon as I started to have any sensation in my hand, as the nerve block wore off, to begin taking pain meds with the hydrocodone. I had a few friends come over to check on me, the first one being Logan.  I was feeling good....until about 8 o'clock and I felt pain like I've never felt.  I took one hydracodone at first.  The nurse told me I could take 2 every 4-6 hours, but I didn't know how I would react with it.  It is a mix of codeine and Tylenol.  My sister couldn't tolerate it at all after she had her wisdom teeth out and she felt like she was swallowing her tongue. I didn't want that to happen to me so I waited about 30 minutes for the medicine to kick in and it didn't even begin to touch the pain I was feeling.  I took another one and waited.  I also took 4 Motrin because the nurse told me to take that medicine also because it is an anti-inflammatory and would keep my hand from swelling to badly. My dad ended up giving me two more around 1 in the morning and that controlled the pain enough for me to go to sleep.