I had to report to the hospital at 5:30am and my surgery was scheduled at 7:30am. I left my kids with my parents. I cried when I said goodbye to them. I know it sounds silly but it was possible that could be the last time I saw them and that was so scary. I was okay after a few minutes but it was hard. My husband was also away at the time and I hadn’t seen him in nearly a month so that made it even worse. (Dang Army) My sister Amanda went with me. She was a trooper for getting up so early, taking the day off work and sitting around the hospital with me. We came in around 5:20am and got signed in. There were a lot of people waiting in the surgery area but it didn’t appear that any were there for Lapband. I got called back a few minutes later and a nice older lady was my pre-op nurse. She was great. She had bariatric surgery 7 years earlier and looked great. She was super reassuring and made me feel at ease. I got an IV and they asked me that same 30 or so questions I had already answered 1200 times again. We waited and my doctor came by he said it would be soon they were just waiting on the room to get ready. A little while later the Anesthesiologist came in and asked me some routine questions and checked my throat. Everything was all good. The nurse came back in later and gave me something in my IV to help me relax and I don’t remember much after that.
I woke up to someone jamming a needle in my thigh… It HURT! (2 weeks later I still have a bruise) I was really tired and couldn’t seem to keep my eyes open. I’m not really sure how long that went on for. Eventually (maybe an hour or so) I was more alert. The nurse explained that I had an allergic reaction to something (they were not sure exactly what) and that I had been given a pretty good dose of Benadryl, which was why I was so tired. Apparently I started to turn really blotchy during the surgery. The shot that I was talking about was not the Benadryl though… so don’t think you will get out of that one. (lol) I asked the doctor about it and he said it was Heparin. It is supposed to stop the blood from clotting and everyone gets it. I think I was in recover for 3 to 5 hours but was feeling pretty good when it was time to go. I even pressured the nurse a little to let us go ahead and leave. My doctor came by just to make sure everything was all okay and he brought me a stuffed bear. It was super cute and I thought that was extremely nice, even if they do it for everyone it still makes you feel good to get a gift in the hospital. After that we left!
I was given a prescription for liquid Hydrocodone, luckily we were smart and called a couple of pharmacies before we left to make sure they carried the liquid version, several did not. We ended up heading over to a Publix to get it filled. I also picked up some Crystal Light and my awesome sister picked up a Publix dinner for my family since they had been at home with my two little ones all day. I slept the rest of the day.
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