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Take Two!

Well, well, well. What a fucky little surgery this was. Terrible. And I am in here again after I have already written the post for it. Kind of crazy how that works out. But, things kept not going as planned because my feeding tube is still a constant issue. And that being what it is I had to push my Enterra Device surgery back a few times due to infections around the tube site. But eventually I did manage to get it did and now I am trying to revise this based on what happened VS what is going to happen.

The biggest problem I had with the surgery itself was this: the surgeon didn’t love the idea of me travelling in so much pain, and he wasn’t close to me. This is a major surgery that you need a 4″ open abdominal slice for. It hurts. He proposed the idea that maybe I could travel home the same day if they did a nerve block, which sounded okay in theory. But. It started to wear off when I got home of course and I would never do that again! It only matters because the battery doesn’t last forever and I will need to repeat this surgery in another seven years or so. And what then? Figure this out before, that’s what! But I lived. But oh boy no way would I do that again. It was awful. >.<

Despite that, I did notice that my nausea was substantially lower the next day! Like, on the drive home from the surgery it was still awful, but the next day I woke up a lot improved. My nausea was just disappeared, which was such a relief. So, that’s important.

I kept wanting to log in and update this, but one major thing impeding my progress is: progress. Usually there’s a period of time after I have a major abdominal surgery where I just can’t easily sit up and I’m in pain and everything is really hard. And that’s normal and all. But as with everything else, things sort of got harder with this past surgery. I’m not sure if it’s five surgeries in one year.. (I mean, that’s a lot!) Or the fact that the day after I came home I had an upper respiratory thing. It’s probably bronchitis, because that’s what Master Pravus has, but I don’t want to drag myself down to the Urgent Care to get an X-ray and be sure, mostly because there’s nothing else to be done for it. They said to just take over the counter stuff and get lots of rest and we have the same thing. So. I don’t know if it’s that.

Or maybe it’s the fact that my feeding tube has been bleeding pretty constantly and heavily ever since I had the surgery. I don’t know. Like, I don’t know. But! It’s just taking me a while to get back up and running. (They’re going to look at my tube soon. I’m sure it’s fine. I mean.) So. I’m doing, but I haven’t been a very good noodle about updating things here, and I wanna be. I do! But I also want things to be feeling better. Maybe when I am rid of this bug I picked up I will be more in a type-y mood. But I’m getting there.