First night
Apr. 3rd, 2025 09:04![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bill_schubertAs expected. Up three times for bathroom breaks and it was about the same as when I went through it last year. I'd forgotten how much I appreciated having someone to swing my legs into the bed once I'd sat down and lay back. Not having to do that surge of pain by swinging them myself was really a luxury. It was nice to be able to pay it back.
We're working through logistics. It is after 9 and she is still asleep. I snuck one of our pet cams in so I can be sure she's still OK while I type this in my office. She hasn't moved and Toby is laying next to her being sure. If she moves he'll pop up and I'll know it.
The doc, who I thought was going to be a stickler for zero pain meds, hopped right over the hydrocodone that I had and on to the Oxy that the world loves so much. Along with it came a two shot prescription of Narcan. Docs are so freakin weird. Fortunately we both have enough experience with pain meds to handle things intelligently and each other to keep things honest. But he also gave her Tramadol, the same thing Zoe takes. So we're a happy pain adjusted family.
The medical community has so much to learn about pain management. Maybe AI can figure it out. The docs sure can't. They never seem to ask the right questions and never seem to really be on top of how and when to manage pain. Hence the Sacker fortune.
He also gave her so many drugs for pain, inflamation, infection, etc that I had to create a spreadsheet tracking what I give her and how much and when. She has one drug to be sure her blood coagulates and one, eliquis, to keep it thin. None of which I had. I'm being careful and tracking things like they do in the hospital. Exept I don't wake her up to ask how she's doing.
So far, her experience is nearly identical to mine so I know what to expect. She said at one point yesterday that it hurt less after surgery than before. A very good sign.
I've got nothing really scheduled but to be here with her. I'm going to bake some bread once she's up and fed and settled. And walk the dogs. And maybe cut the grass before we get more rain. And such.
We're working through logistics. It is after 9 and she is still asleep. I snuck one of our pet cams in so I can be sure she's still OK while I type this in my office. She hasn't moved and Toby is laying next to her being sure. If she moves he'll pop up and I'll know it.
The doc, who I thought was going to be a stickler for zero pain meds, hopped right over the hydrocodone that I had and on to the Oxy that the world loves so much. Along with it came a two shot prescription of Narcan. Docs are so freakin weird. Fortunately we both have enough experience with pain meds to handle things intelligently and each other to keep things honest. But he also gave her Tramadol, the same thing Zoe takes. So we're a happy pain adjusted family.
The medical community has so much to learn about pain management. Maybe AI can figure it out. The docs sure can't. They never seem to ask the right questions and never seem to really be on top of how and when to manage pain. Hence the Sacker fortune.
He also gave her so many drugs for pain, inflamation, infection, etc that I had to create a spreadsheet tracking what I give her and how much and when. She has one drug to be sure her blood coagulates and one, eliquis, to keep it thin. None of which I had. I'm being careful and tracking things like they do in the hospital. Exept I don't wake her up to ask how she's doing.
So far, her experience is nearly identical to mine so I know what to expect. She said at one point yesterday that it hurt less after surgery than before. A very good sign.
I've got nothing really scheduled but to be here with her. I'm going to bake some bread once she's up and fed and settled. And walk the dogs. And maybe cut the grass before we get more rain. And such.