Surgery

Alright, for some reason I just deleted my blog -- somehow! So this won't be as long of an entry describing yesterday, but I'll do the best I can.

I went in to get surgery because I have peroneal tendon subluxation.. My peroneal tendons were snapping over eachother, which will eventually cause tearing and many more side effects if I didn't get the surgery done. According to my Dr. they had to go in and do groove reconstruction by either "sanding" a groove into my fibula, or taking pieces of bone from higher up in my fibula and putting it down around the tendons so they didn't move. We aren't really sure which procedure he performed because he didn't tell mom, and he didn't tell the nurse when i called this morning, all he said was that he performed groove reconstruction. So we're kind of left in the dark on that, but maybe it's better not to know, right? ;)

We went in and had a urine sample, had to have antibiotic and then the anesthesiologits came in and talked to us and asked us if I would mind if he put a nerve block on my popliteal nerve which would help with post-op pain. Of course we said no, after i made sure i'd be asleep while he was doing it! He said he was going to give me the anesthesia through an IV and that was the end of it. After I put my cute lil blue hat on and my hospital socks, I was off to the OR. walking in there was extremely intimidating. They all say hi to you, yet you know they're all going to be cutting you open in about 10 minutes -weird! It was a bright blue floor, atleast 10 people in there, they get you to lay down and then they all start doing different things to you, until someone asks you what foot you're having surgery on, when they all freeze and look down at you. The last thing I remember was telling the anesthesiologist that my dad was an entomologist and then I woke up in the Recovery room.

When I woke up the nurse was by me telling me it's alright, you're just waking up. looked down, saw a huge tan thing on my foot, and realized my HR was at 113. Dozed off again and hten woke up when she asked me if it hurt, on a scale of 1 - 10 it was about a 5 and she ended up giving me three doses of pain meds through an IV and then I was wheeled off to the room where Mom and Sandy were. I can tell you one thing for sure, they don't tell you that when you're coming out of the anesthesia, you shake and shiver. uncontrollably. I started doing it in the recovery room, knew it was completely visible, but the nurse wasn't saying anything about it so I kind of just went with the flow. I got into the room with Mom and Sandy and they asked if I was cold, said no and then asked why I was shivering. I said i have no clue but I can't stop it. Sandy went and asked the nurse and she said it happens when you come out of the anesthesia and that I was not nearly as bad as some people - who almost shake off of the bed.

After awhile, we were on our way home. They dropped me off, and then went to go get my prescriptions for Percocet and Vicodin filled and some food. While they were gone, I felt like i was going to throw up so went into the bathroom and nothing happened so figured it was the Percocet I had taken at the hospital -- on an empty stomach. Grabbed a piece of bread and then I was good the rest of the night. I fell asleep around 1 am, and slept very well.

Below are some pictures of the splint/cast that I have on until august 21.