Ovie
Well-known member
Just want to start off by saying thank you to my mom for the updates, she was very sweet to do that. I've crossed to the other side, it hasn't been fun, but afterwards it's incredible to know how bad it really needed to be done. A 5hr surgery turned into
About a 3 hour surgery, had to have some graphing done and my surgeon said it was twice as bad as it had looked so it was good they got in there when they did.
It was honestly shocking how it went from being in the operating room being told they were putting me to sleep to waking up in what felt like 10 mins. I awoke in
high spirits and wasn't as confused as I'd imagined I'd of been, but than slowly drifted away. Woke up
Around 11pm DOS in ICU and was much more awake, and was actually
Treated quite awful. The staff were rude and unassuring even when I was kind and thankful, it was easily the worst night/morning so far. I remember at about 3 am being told if I needed somebody to push the nurse alert button. Well about 5 mins after I got extremely nautilus and pushed the button and yelled with my raspy voice for help before I couldn't hold it In anymore and threw up everywhere, including on myself. The rest of the early AM was just worst, they gave me nothing for pain, or help me to withdrawal off of my anti-anxiety meds and became so dizzy and sick that I started to hallucinate. I had zero sleep and zero meds. I was praying that with new nurses coming in the morning things couldnt get any worst. How I was wrong. The 3 new nurses I delt with were so uneducated, so heartless that I was shocked they had ever been hired. I had told them everything that had been going on, in a nice way too, but they never acknowledged a problem, told me "this will be ok, you're just dealing with such and such right now" they made smirky and rude comments about me to one another. I also decided to ask 1 of them
How long they had been in their current field, she said 8 years, but also ended up pushing another nurse to the side saying she "needed" the practice. When I was finally getting moved out of ICU 2 of these 3 nurses were the ones doing it, and by that point I was just furious, they than very rudely told me to get on the wheelchair, when I explained to them
I was still hooked up to machines and wires, I was almost laughed at. What happened next you ask? I than went to stand up and my cathoder tube was tangled and not loose at all, which hurt very bad, she than went in to say sorry. The other nurse than said trust me, we've got you as I once more tried standing and as I stood completely up only to have my head ripped to the side because of a wire still in my jugular that had not been moved to accommodate me on my move. To say the least, President or whoever else I need to send to here at Mayo, will be hearing about my ICU experience. It was awful.
However since being moved, my nurses are wonderful, very kind and accommodating to almost anything that needs to be done, constantly looking over me and helping. I had my cathoder and chest tubes pulled yesterday. Sleeping has been difficult, but I feel that's to be expected. They say I should be out by tuesday, which will be nice so I can have eventually everything removed. I'm sore, a little uncomfortable, but as long as I keep it to one day at a time, I should be alright and glad to have this over with. So other than my ICU stay things have gone pretty smoothe. Been doing my breathing tests, my short walks. Have had difficulty with foods and some nausea, but other than that I feel good! It's currently 2am Sunday morning, have had trouble sleeping so figured I'd give an update myself while I had time. I've been fortunte to be able to
Browse updates and can't thank you all enough for the support. I look forward to getting back to offering what I can on the site, and none the less continue to learn.
Always greatful,
Ovie.
About a 3 hour surgery, had to have some graphing done and my surgeon said it was twice as bad as it had looked so it was good they got in there when they did.
It was honestly shocking how it went from being in the operating room being told they were putting me to sleep to waking up in what felt like 10 mins. I awoke in
high spirits and wasn't as confused as I'd imagined I'd of been, but than slowly drifted away. Woke up
Around 11pm DOS in ICU and was much more awake, and was actually
Treated quite awful. The staff were rude and unassuring even when I was kind and thankful, it was easily the worst night/morning so far. I remember at about 3 am being told if I needed somebody to push the nurse alert button. Well about 5 mins after I got extremely nautilus and pushed the button and yelled with my raspy voice for help before I couldn't hold it In anymore and threw up everywhere, including on myself. The rest of the early AM was just worst, they gave me nothing for pain, or help me to withdrawal off of my anti-anxiety meds and became so dizzy and sick that I started to hallucinate. I had zero sleep and zero meds. I was praying that with new nurses coming in the morning things couldnt get any worst. How I was wrong. The 3 new nurses I delt with were so uneducated, so heartless that I was shocked they had ever been hired. I had told them everything that had been going on, in a nice way too, but they never acknowledged a problem, told me "this will be ok, you're just dealing with such and such right now" they made smirky and rude comments about me to one another. I also decided to ask 1 of them
How long they had been in their current field, she said 8 years, but also ended up pushing another nurse to the side saying she "needed" the practice. When I was finally getting moved out of ICU 2 of these 3 nurses were the ones doing it, and by that point I was just furious, they than very rudely told me to get on the wheelchair, when I explained to them
I was still hooked up to machines and wires, I was almost laughed at. What happened next you ask? I than went to stand up and my cathoder tube was tangled and not loose at all, which hurt very bad, she than went in to say sorry. The other nurse than said trust me, we've got you as I once more tried standing and as I stood completely up only to have my head ripped to the side because of a wire still in my jugular that had not been moved to accommodate me on my move. To say the least, President or whoever else I need to send to here at Mayo, will be hearing about my ICU experience. It was awful.
However since being moved, my nurses are wonderful, very kind and accommodating to almost anything that needs to be done, constantly looking over me and helping. I had my cathoder and chest tubes pulled yesterday. Sleeping has been difficult, but I feel that's to be expected. They say I should be out by tuesday, which will be nice so I can have eventually everything removed. I'm sore, a little uncomfortable, but as long as I keep it to one day at a time, I should be alright and glad to have this over with. So other than my ICU stay things have gone pretty smoothe. Been doing my breathing tests, my short walks. Have had difficulty with foods and some nausea, but other than that I feel good! It's currently 2am Sunday morning, have had trouble sleeping so figured I'd give an update myself while I had time. I've been fortunte to be able to
Browse updates and can't thank you all enough for the support. I look forward to getting back to offering what I can on the site, and none the less continue to learn.
Always greatful,
Ovie.
