OT: Inguinal Hernia Surgery

[Hans Sprungfeld]

Checking in near the end of a long day.

I awakened in darkness, arrived at YNHH before 6, had successful surgery (so I'm told) after meeting at least a dozen doctors & nurses & others on my care team, was out of the building by 10:30, and back home for a restful day of food & sleep & Channel 13 after dark at my sister's.

So far, it's working to manage pain by alternating Tylenol & Advil in 6 hour shifts (I have Oxy in case), and after the hospital drugs wore off, it has only hurt when I sit down, stand up, lie down, roll or lean over, go to the bathroom, sneeze, blow my nose, or, ironically, engage my core like I usually do to make all of those other actions easier . A lot goes on in that neighborhood, and the caution I've gotten here that day 2 will feel worse than day 1 would seem to have a pretty clear logic to it.

And now to find out how bedtime goes. Probably stupid to have just eaten Ben & Jerry's Coffee Coffee Buzz Buzz just now.

 

[Edward Sargent]

Checking in near the end of a long day.

I awakened in darkness, arrived at YNHH before 6, had successful surgery (so I'm told) after meeting at least a dozen doctors & nurses & others on my care team, was out of the building by 10:30, and back home for a restful day of food & sleep & Channel 13 after dark at my sister's.

So far, it's working to manage pain by alternating Tylenol & Advil in 6 hour shifts (I have Oxy in case), and after the hospital drugs wore off, it has only hurt when I sit down, stand up, lie down, roll or lean over, go to the bathroom, sneeze, blow my nose, or, ironically, engage my core like I usually do to make all of those other actions easier . A lot goes on in that neighborhood, and the caution I've gotten here that day 2 will feel worse than day 1 would seem to have a pretty clear logic to it.

And now to find out how bedtime goes. Probably stupid to have just eaten Ben & Jerry's Coffee Coffee Buzz Buzz just now.

Happy to hear you are well along the road to recovery

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

Happy to hear you are well along the road to recovery

Thanks.

I'd put pain level at 7 and indeed worse than yesterday, but still feeling OK enough w/the OTC meds.

So far, anything I wondered about whether I'd be able to do is nothing I'd want to do or could if I tried. It's that obvious. In fact, something as simple as bending over to lift the toilet seat is challenge enough, so I'm just leaving the seat up, even though I could lower & lift. Not worth the bother. No extra work today.

But I did get outside into sunshine & fresh air to stroll the condo grounds a bit, and used stairs up & down to do so. I think I'm doing well.