Recovery

Thank you everyone for all of your many thoughts and prayers! I am now home recovering so I figured I could update everyone about my surgery!

Friday 3:45am our alarm goes off and its time to shower and head to The Heart Hospital. I made sure to wear my lucky four leaf clover socks that the Mays family gave me for my last surgery!

About 5:30am The pre-op stuff began. This included paperwork, drawing blood, a chest xray, and starting my iv. Did I mention I hate needles? Well the nurse was so nice to say they would numb my hand for my iv... yeah well no one mentioned that it was a numbing shot... I didn't sign up for an extra needle to be stabbed into my hand.. After the numbing shot she started the iv but was unable to thread it therefore she sat there digging around in my hand for a while until she decided to give up and the anesthesiologist stepped in and put the iv in my other hand... Lets just say I was NOT happy and if this was any indication on how my surgery was going to go I was a little worried.

Around 7:15am it was time to head back to surgery. Night night for me!

Around 9:00am I woke up with a scratchy throat and busted lip from being intubated.(sp?) Once I was brought back to the room it was time for a popsicle! The nurse offered me a menu to order breakfast from and then realized Dr. Ryan ordered me to be on a liquid diet so all I had was beef broth! yummy... Then I was given pain meds!

A big thank you to the staff at The Heart Hospital Baylor Plano because they are absolutely the sweetest most caring bunch around! Regardless of my silly questions and comments they always smile and make you feel at home!

Around 11 I was released from the hospital. We spent the remainder of the day watching movies on the couch and sleeping. The pain from the incision was not enjoyable.

Today Win and Mom went with me to school to help finish setting up my classroom for my transition to our new curriculum. A big thank you to them both because I was very stressed out about how I was going to get it all done!

I don't have much of an appetite today, I have felt nauseous on and off, and I have a fear that I have urinary retention... Sorry if that is too much information but its true! The pain from the incision is less today but still hurts. Hopefully tomorrow I will be back to normal!

On a positive note I am now OBSESSED with Pinterest and can't wait to show off my new craft projects! Fun blogs to come!