Home at last

So much pain, particular at the incision in my chest where they placed the device. Sometimes I can feel it moving inside me when I'm walking around. Feels as if though my body is trying to reject it because that spot seems to swell a bit more each day. The incision in my neck doesn't bother me at all, which I'm thankful for.

Found out I should have asked another question prior to surgery....will I be able to drive? Turns out it'll be a minimum of 2 weeks before they want me even thinking about getting behind the wheel. At this point I can't turn my head anyway without excrutiating pain so I won't even try. But if things improve before the 2 wks is up, I'll be driving.

I guess the surgery went as planned, but nothing afterwards did. They couldn't wake me up from the anesthesia and I was having breathing problems so they admitted me for observation. Plus I turned out to be allergic to the plastic wrap type tape they used to cover my wounds. As they tried to remove it, chunks of skin came off with it, which is adding to the pain. And just to insure the whole experience would be completely horrible, my monthly misery decided to show up as well. Ah, such wonderful luck I have.

Fortunately they gave me Tylenol #3, the wonderful stuff with the codeine in it. So I dope up every four hours, take about half an hour trying to find a position I can sleep in without going blind from the pain and pass out for a few hours. It's been nearly 4 hours now, so time to dope up again.