donnybasbl
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Surgery was today at 9:30am EDT. No side effects from anesthesia and I felt entirely lucid within about 20 minutes of waking up.
My wife was there at noon for a quick hi and bye (they only allow 15 minute visits in the PACU every 2 hours). Both of our girls have activities and sports today and tonight (plus we have a puppy), so she headed home and will be back tomorrow to pick me up.
Took a relatively lengthy walk around the PACU at 1:45. The PT said that most people don’t get to that distance even by the second day, so I’m feeling pretty good about that.
I’m on 1000mg Tylenol every 6 hours and 1000 mg Tramadol every 6 hours. I do not tolerate opioids well, so this seems to be a good plan because the Tramadol did not have any adverse side effects.
The entire leg aches, but nothing that isn’t tolerable. I have an extremely high tolerance to pain (unless it’s dental related), but we’ll see how it goes.
I know there will be lots of ups and downs, but so far so good.
My wife was there at noon for a quick hi and bye (they only allow 15 minute visits in the PACU every 2 hours). Both of our girls have activities and sports today and tonight (plus we have a puppy), so she headed home and will be back tomorrow to pick me up.
Took a relatively lengthy walk around the PACU at 1:45. The PT said that most people don’t get to that distance even by the second day, so I’m feeling pretty good about that.
I’m on 1000mg Tylenol every 6 hours and 1000 mg Tramadol every 6 hours. I do not tolerate opioids well, so this seems to be a good plan because the Tramadol did not have any adverse side effects.
The entire leg aches, but nothing that isn’t tolerable. I have an extremely high tolerance to pain (unless it’s dental related), but we’ll see how it goes.
I know there will be lots of ups and downs, but so far so good.
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