DS Done

I went into the hospital on November 7 for my Heidel hernia repair and the DS switch.
It’s now Thursday, November 9 and I’m hoping to get discharged today.

It’s been going pretty good so far I’m sore but the pain isn’t horrible and less I can’t. My shoulders are a bit sore from the gas and of course postop you’re not allowed to drink any water for 24 hours which is always the worst part of this, the dry mouth!

Since yesterday at noon I have been allowed to have 1 ounce of G2 every hour, so that certainly made an improvement.  I had my catheter out and I’ve Peed in the toilet which is also nice, and been doing several laps every couple of hours in the hospital ward.

My painkillers here are just down to liquid Tylenol last night I didn’t get any narcotics for sleeping so that’s really good.

I’m still getting IV fluids which is good because I need that liquids and I’ve been using my speaker on meter to get up to a long volume where I’m breathing properly.   I think that the hiatal hernia is actually the worst of the two procedures. My doctor said the hernia fixed was just over two hours almost 2 1/2 hours so it was really big and really bad. I think that is affected my breathing the most and moving is that repair to the diaphragm.

This hospital bed is making my ass sore so I’m looking forward to getting out of it.

The doctor left one of the incisions open it’s larger than the others so that it will drain and so that one will need to be changed for the next week it’s been done here at the hospital and then at home as well. He’ll switch it up next week at my one week visit.

That’s all I can think of for now. I’m using talk to text on my phone, So there may be some errors in the text above but I’m too lazy to go back and look. Sorry!