Hello Everyone,
I came home yesterday on my 5th day post op. The surgery went well but in my mind, spent way too much time being intubated as my blood pressure was so low and I wasn?t breathing on my own. Just lazy I guess.
I received the St Judes Valve 21AGFN-756. How does that translate? I am not hearing any clicking yet and am very happy I made that decision. I have no interest in a repeat operation. I think my INR is over 2.0. I was never given Coumadin Education but have had some knowledge from this group and the wonderful info from Mr. Lodwick. I also found it odd they served me so much broccoli in the hospital.
I have been involved in working with JACHO Accreditation for our center by setting up and Infection Control Program and I know good pain management has become and important concept in getting accreditation.
Well, the one nightmare occurred on my 3rd day post op where they left me in chair for hours and hours, Nurse Rachet let it be known she was too busy to get me back to bed and also felt I didn?t require the pain medications I was getting. So, she reduced me from Dilaudid and Morphine to 2 doses of regular Tylenol!!!!!! I didn?t have a phone to call anyone and was in too much pain, nausea and heat flashes to do much about this at the time but the nice little old man who was my roommate (????) was so supportive and tried to get me help, only to receive her wrath himself the next day. I had even begged her to help me get a private duty nurse. Some people should NOT be in med/surg nursing and I may be one of them but got out of that field before I reached the point of torturing people. BUT then again, I am making half their salary.
I do know the reporting procedure and will follow up with this ASAP with the help of fellow nurses who have worked at this hospital before working for me. I feel I have to do this for others she may care for in the future. I did let immediate staff know how inappropriate she was. I will have to meet with the Patient Coordinator and the hospital is 45 minutes away so it will have to wait a while.
The Visiting Nurses are coming in every other day to do my labs etc. My blood pressure is still like 80/50. My Pro Time came in and I am going to do a trial test tonight with Leeanne at QAS . I am taking iron, lasix, amiodarone, aspirin, coumadin 2 mgm a day. I expect these are just post op meds? Well except the coumadin,
I am having trouble sleeping as I can?t get comfortable. I spent half the night in the recliner and half in bed but it was a fitful sleep. I wonder how long this goes on. A good nurse who saved me from the above nightmare, told me the younger you are, the more pain you have due to the condition of nerve fibers, more acute pain. I have no apppetite and things taste funny. Any reason for this?
My husband felt very supportive by the messages he got from his posting and yes, he was/is feeling overwhelmed, tired and incompetent in all of this so it meant so much to him for others to acknowledge feelings he was having. He was particularily helped by wweir who gave him the support he needed to accept no excuses for my not walking. And I DID have a bunch of excuses lined up!!!
My thought are with everyone who has gone through this and wondering about my surgical twins Dave5Baseball and Bunkenmyers?
Again thank you for everything during these past difficult weeks,
Donna
I came home yesterday on my 5th day post op. The surgery went well but in my mind, spent way too much time being intubated as my blood pressure was so low and I wasn?t breathing on my own. Just lazy I guess.
I received the St Judes Valve 21AGFN-756. How does that translate? I am not hearing any clicking yet and am very happy I made that decision. I have no interest in a repeat operation. I think my INR is over 2.0. I was never given Coumadin Education but have had some knowledge from this group and the wonderful info from Mr. Lodwick. I also found it odd they served me so much broccoli in the hospital.
I have been involved in working with JACHO Accreditation for our center by setting up and Infection Control Program and I know good pain management has become and important concept in getting accreditation.
Well, the one nightmare occurred on my 3rd day post op where they left me in chair for hours and hours, Nurse Rachet let it be known she was too busy to get me back to bed and also felt I didn?t require the pain medications I was getting. So, she reduced me from Dilaudid and Morphine to 2 doses of regular Tylenol!!!!!! I didn?t have a phone to call anyone and was in too much pain, nausea and heat flashes to do much about this at the time but the nice little old man who was my roommate (????) was so supportive and tried to get me help, only to receive her wrath himself the next day. I had even begged her to help me get a private duty nurse. Some people should NOT be in med/surg nursing and I may be one of them but got out of that field before I reached the point of torturing people. BUT then again, I am making half their salary.
I do know the reporting procedure and will follow up with this ASAP with the help of fellow nurses who have worked at this hospital before working for me. I feel I have to do this for others she may care for in the future. I did let immediate staff know how inappropriate she was. I will have to meet with the Patient Coordinator and the hospital is 45 minutes away so it will have to wait a while.
The Visiting Nurses are coming in every other day to do my labs etc. My blood pressure is still like 80/50. My Pro Time came in and I am going to do a trial test tonight with Leeanne at QAS . I am taking iron, lasix, amiodarone, aspirin, coumadin 2 mgm a day. I expect these are just post op meds? Well except the coumadin,
I am having trouble sleeping as I can?t get comfortable. I spent half the night in the recliner and half in bed but it was a fitful sleep. I wonder how long this goes on. A good nurse who saved me from the above nightmare, told me the younger you are, the more pain you have due to the condition of nerve fibers, more acute pain. I have no apppetite and things taste funny. Any reason for this?
My husband felt very supportive by the messages he got from his posting and yes, he was/is feeling overwhelmed, tired and incompetent in all of this so it meant so much to him for others to acknowledge feelings he was having. He was particularily helped by wweir who gave him the support he needed to accept no excuses for my not walking. And I DID have a bunch of excuses lined up!!!
My thought are with everyone who has gone through this and wondering about my surgical twins Dave5Baseball and Bunkenmyers?
Again thank you for everything during these past difficult weeks,
Donna