I arrived at the hospital at 8:30am, 2 hours before my scheduled surgery. My husband brought me to the hospital. When I went into the pre op room they put a warming blanket on me, started an IV, drew blood through the IV. Awhile later, Anesthesia came to talk to me and gave me some IV medicine for nausea and to help me go to sleep. I was awake when they rolled me into the OR, I got onto the table then I woke up in the recovery room. They controlled my pain with dilaudid IV since I'm on of the 1% that doesn't respond to Morphine. I also had leg compressions on both legs, oxygen, pulse oximeter and my CPAP was set up with oxygen.
My pulse oximeter beeped most of the evening, no one came in to check why it was beeping so I kept hitting the silence button (I'm a RN). The respiratory therapist eventually came and put on a different device like tape to hold on my finger because I had gel nails on. I was still getting my pain med through my IV because I wasn't eating. They offered me tylenol with codiene but I knew since I wasn't eating I would get sick to my stomach so stayed on IV pain meds till I was able to eat. I had to ask for an Incentive Spirometer (last surgery I did also) Sad, post op they don't offer the IS as they should to prevent pneumonia.
My IV was in my left hand, right where is you move it the IV would get kinked. My IV beeped a lot during the night also and again no one really checked it. I received IV antibiotics at night. I was able to get up a couple of times with help to the bathroom with my poles. In the middle of the night my IV ran dry. It took them awhile to come to my room. The RN got me up to the bathroom and disconnected my IV at that time. When she flushed my IV to hook me back up with NS it really burned and she had to use a lot of force. My IV had potassium in it she explained so that's why it burned. Right, that's why she should have pushed that IV NS slowly. Damn, when I worked in the hospital I always thought of the comfort of my patient.
I had a nice view from my hospital window and was lucky not to have a roommate until I was on my way out the door.
In the morning my IV infiltrated. The night RN, who had to go to report in 5 minutes and tried to say it was ok. However, luckily I noticed right when it infiltrated and noticed my hand getting puffy so I insisted it was infiltrated and since I was going to eat breakfast why didn't they take it out. So she stopped it.
The day nurse came in a couple of hours later and removed my IV. I was able to get up and shower. My full liquid breakfast was cream of wheat and I put a couple pats of Promise in it. I also had a carton of milk.
I was picked up later in the afternoon and went home.
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