Okay SO ... I have not had major surgery since I was eleven and had my tonsils and adenoids taken out. I was a spry little tiny thing ... and I remember being the only child waking from anestesia and wanting to roll aournd the hospital in the wheel chair. The doctors were amazed! LOL! They were like DANG this little girl is nuts. A few of th eother children who had surgery the same day were either throwing up, had a fever, were moaning in pain or crying. Here I am this tiny little thing fucking rolling around in a wheel chair asking when I can leave. The other parents were like WTF did you do to my kid and why isn't that kid all up in bed crying curled up in a ball.
I am a survivor I guess.
So I am going into this with that attitude!
UNTIL they lay me out like Jesus Christ on the cross! I mean they gave me some nice shit to chill me out before rolling me in. But once I got on the table and they were laying me out it was SUPER weird.
But then I do not remember much ... 100, 99 ............................................
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Waking up from the anesthesia totally, totally SUCKED! I was really fighting it! I wanted SO bad to be awake and mentally stable to observe all the strange things going on and wow it felt like a Sci-Fi movie gone bad! They were ALL up in my face the first second I cracked my eye lid open! Like super loud and up in my grill. Then naturally because of my AWESOME sleep apnea I was like setting off alarms cause I was not breathing. AT ALL! They kept coming over and shaking me and telling me to take deep breaths. Finally I think they had had enough and just hooked me up to my CPAP. Then it was much nicer and I got a few more hours of rest. So then they were like packing up my machine and assuring me that a room was ready. All went well, they were able to do it laparoscopic (which is literally the first thing they are yelling at you as soon as you crack that one eye lid) "HI TAMI ... YOU ARE IN RECOVERY. SURGERY TOOK ABOUT AN HOUR AND A HALF IT WENT AMAZING AND DR. ROYE WAS ABLE TO DO IT LAPAROSCOPIC!" OK! THANK YOU ... DID YOU WORK ON MY EARS TOO WHILE YOU WERE IN THERE?! LOL!
Truly though. The staff was AMAZING. Dr. Roye is easy on the eyes! LOL! My assistant anesthesiologist was SO cute and promised me he would sing to me while I was under. He was walking by and stopped to see me after surgery and he asked how I was doing. I smiled and said I had a flaming headache from his singing and he should NOT quit his day job. He was like "Wow you are a firecracker, kid" LOL!
So finally after another 15 minutes of turning off the alarm because they took me off my CPAP because my "room" was ready ... a nurse got fed up and got on the phone DEMANDING a room because I was NOT breathing. SO away I went quickly after that.
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I walked around a little bit. I was kinda impressed at my ability to be up and about already and attributed it to my super hero DNA and my younger years of being a friggin' awesome patient. But I was pooped and ready for sleep ... which did NOT come easily.
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