Yes I know it's Friday, not Thursday, but yesterday didn't go quite as planned.
But back to Wednesday first. I arrived at hospital at 7.00 am, was admitted, saw the anaesthetist, saw my surgeon (no mention made of my cold) and was taken into theatre at 9.30 am. For this op I had a GA so no nasty injections in my back, just one in the back of my hand and the next thing I knew it was 11.00 am and I was in recovery with a huge pot and bandage on my left wrist. The diagnosis was advanced OA of the carpometacarpal joint.
The rest of Wednesday passed in a daze of sleeping, painkillers and beeping blood pressure machines. Come teatime, having asked for something that I could eat with just a fork, I was presented with a plate sporting a dry and tough whole chicken breast, potatoes, carrots and parsnips - no mention of how I was supposed to cut any of it up one handed! Wonderful! Not a lot of sleep Wednesday night.
On Thursday nausea struck and lasted all day! I was discharged at 11.30 am and Paul brought me home. After nibbling a piece toast it was back to bed for the afternoon, though no proper sleep, just feeling grim. In the end I decided to get up to see if being upright would help the nausea but no. I'll spare you the gory details, but at 9.30 pm I was finally mega-ly sick and immediately felt better!
Today I have slept nearly all morning and have managed some scrambled egg for lunch so hopefully things are beginning to look up. The other positive thing is that the pain is nowhere near as bad as predicted and, as yet, today I've taken no pain killers.
I have to go back to hospital next week to have the dressing changed, the following week to have the stitches out and then I'll be in a pot for 6 weeks.
Thank you for all your thoughts and support. They mean a lot. Linda x
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