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Doomy has had a rather bad week but is managing
8 years ago
GUESS WHO?
So, I've had a rather horrid week
My grandmother took a bad turn last week Friday so me and my siblings rushed up to see her on that Saturday -
was informed at the start of this week that she has passed away on Monday morning.
Will miss my grandmother dearly - she was the grandma that put family first and made the best bolognese (and she would try to feed it to my vegetarian sister, bless her she didn't understand it very well) but it was just so unreal to see her - she was so frail and practically deaf and blind on that visit.
And then the second bit:
During this event, I had a tailbone injury that made sitting awkward, I thought it was a bruise and the doctors over the phone suggested a possible Haemotoma (blood build up that got a bit tough, nothing too terrible) but that I go into the GP for checking.
Turns out, this injury was an ABCESS IN MY TAILBONE / UPPER BUTTCHEEK
It burst open on Thursday evening and I went straight to A & E (courtesy of the carpenter who gave me the lift there), I was there for a bit until I was informed I would need to return to the hospital the next day for surgery
Yes. Surgery
Friday Morning, I get there after a not-so-steady sleep (i wasn't allowed to eat beyond 3AM and not allowed to drink beyond 7AM) - because this is the holidays a lot of other accidents were coming in as well - Was petrified of getting a tube placed in my arm (IMPORTANT NOTE: I NEVER SAW THE ARM VALVE, im just told it was the Adult One [wtf]) so I buried my face in another hospital dweller (will call her K for identity-ness), so me and K just end up being chill with each other throughout my stay, which is nice.
About 8:30pm, after having fasted the whole day with only a drip for hydration, I get told i'm ready to get going in
On the bed (on my side mind you, I have not been able to sit or lie down on my back since the Tuesday) they give me the oxygen and the bigger tube to connect to the arm valve - it had a pink valve on it, which they put the knock-out-fluid in.
I do not remember passing out
Woke up half an hour later in the recovery ward, a little more awake and I get wheeled back to the room I was originally in still half asleep but more aware of myself.
Sleep was a bit balmy, kept waking up every now and then mostly for blood pressure checks, which were all fine - realised at about 5am I had the sleep I could for then (I never managed to recall when I returned to the ward but the earliest time I remember seeing was after my first doze, which was about 11pm-ish, so probably not long after i got wheeled out)
Was able to eat toast that morning and they proceeded to move ahead with the discharge notices as all was well for me to go home - though I am unable to work for two weeks due to recovery.
So they go with pulling out the arm valve tube thing (you know, THE ONE I NEVER SAW) and at first it looks long so i'm just like "ok, this is weird" THEN IT BECAME A GIANT L SHAPE AND MY FACE WENT "NOPE"
So that is an Adult One and it was in my arm for 27-ish hours
The redressing of the open wound is the most painful thing i'm enduring now but it is the last stretch to recovery
TLDR: Doomy lost her Grandma, had surgery on her butt and is recovering slowly
My grandmother took a bad turn last week Friday so me and my siblings rushed up to see her on that Saturday -
was informed at the start of this week that she has passed away on Monday morning.
Will miss my grandmother dearly - she was the grandma that put family first and made the best bolognese (and she would try to feed it to my vegetarian sister, bless her she didn't understand it very well) but it was just so unreal to see her - she was so frail and practically deaf and blind on that visit.
And then the second bit:
During this event, I had a tailbone injury that made sitting awkward, I thought it was a bruise and the doctors over the phone suggested a possible Haemotoma (blood build up that got a bit tough, nothing too terrible) but that I go into the GP for checking.
Turns out, this injury was an ABCESS IN MY TAILBONE / UPPER BUTTCHEEK
It burst open on Thursday evening and I went straight to A & E (courtesy of the carpenter who gave me the lift there), I was there for a bit until I was informed I would need to return to the hospital the next day for surgery
Yes. Surgery
Friday Morning, I get there after a not-so-steady sleep (i wasn't allowed to eat beyond 3AM and not allowed to drink beyond 7AM) - because this is the holidays a lot of other accidents were coming in as well - Was petrified of getting a tube placed in my arm (IMPORTANT NOTE: I NEVER SAW THE ARM VALVE, im just told it was the Adult One [wtf]) so I buried my face in another hospital dweller (will call her K for identity-ness), so me and K just end up being chill with each other throughout my stay, which is nice.
About 8:30pm, after having fasted the whole day with only a drip for hydration, I get told i'm ready to get going in
On the bed (on my side mind you, I have not been able to sit or lie down on my back since the Tuesday) they give me the oxygen and the bigger tube to connect to the arm valve - it had a pink valve on it, which they put the knock-out-fluid in.
I do not remember passing out
Woke up half an hour later in the recovery ward, a little more awake and I get wheeled back to the room I was originally in still half asleep but more aware of myself.
Sleep was a bit balmy, kept waking up every now and then mostly for blood pressure checks, which were all fine - realised at about 5am I had the sleep I could for then (I never managed to recall when I returned to the ward but the earliest time I remember seeing was after my first doze, which was about 11pm-ish, so probably not long after i got wheeled out)
Was able to eat toast that morning and they proceeded to move ahead with the discharge notices as all was well for me to go home - though I am unable to work for two weeks due to recovery.
So they go with pulling out the arm valve tube thing (you know, THE ONE I NEVER SAW) and at first it looks long so i'm just like "ok, this is weird" THEN IT BECAME A GIANT L SHAPE AND MY FACE WENT "NOPE"
So that is an Adult One and it was in my arm for 27-ish hours
The redressing of the open wound is the most painful thing i'm enduring now but it is the last stretch to recovery
TLDR: Doomy lost her Grandma, had surgery on her butt and is recovering slowly
