I hurt.
A lot.
Day 1 is being lived 4 hours at a time… Liquid pain meds; then while everything is numb, drinking as much water as possible and trying to eat jello. After that is done, social media time to entertain myself. After about an hour and a half the nausea sets in… which is about 30 minutes before I can take my pain med pills and anti-nausea medication. At this point it hurts incredibly bad to swallow; so I gag, hack, and shed tears as I force the pills down. Finally about 20 minutes of TV before I fall asleep for about an hour and forty minutes.
Then repeat.
At least the anesthesia from surgery has started to wear off. I felt a lot better this morning when I could actually hold my head up… for the first two hours of this cycle that is.
Things we have learned so far…
1) Apparently there are such things as “tonsil stones”… similar to kidney stones…
The doctor mentioned that this was possible to my wife when he met with her post surgery; and asked “Does he have bad breath? Do people ever back up from him when he is talking?” Which she said, yes sometimes… I guess “tonsil stones” can cause super bad breath. Something I had been fighting for a while, and just blamed on my toothpaste being sub standard…
Apparently these tonsil stones made my tonsils smell so bad when they came out that both doctors and both nurses in the operating room gagged.
I made an entire operating room of experienced medical professionals gag simultaneously. How many of you have done that?
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2) When I woke up after surgery, the post op nurse asked on a scale of 0-10 how much pain I was in; 0 being none, and 10 being the worst pain you have been in during your whole life. I said 9.
I meant it.
The nurse later told my wife that “men are bigger babies about tonsillectomies then women”. I think she thought I was being dramatic.
I still say no.
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3) The same nurse gave me 2 or 3 doses of morphine. I was in so much pain, I couldn’t even enjoy it.
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4) I apparently took a long time to come out of post op and recovery. I was supposed to be there after surgery for about an hour. I was there for about 4 hours before I could get in the car.
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5) Being afraid of spraying the liquid pain medicine on my sore tonsils from the syringe, the first time I took it my wife suggest spraying it in the side of my mouth and then swallowing it.
What we both failed to realize is that the liquid numbs on contact…
So I spent the first four hours home with a numb tongue, and a throbbing throat.
Now on to a nap…
While I couldn’t sleep last night though, I thought of a contest for Twitter/Facebook. There might even be a prize involved… a way to keep the #SaveEric2013 going… and hopefully get it trending. After my nap I will post it…
Until then, see you curled up in the fetal position on my couch…
E
aw, sorry you are going through this–but at least you made the doctors and nurses gag
Ha! I was expecting to do that… But I guess the tonsils really did need to come out!