Monday, April 26, 2010

Surgery memories of gastric bypass

Since this is somewhat of a journal, I thought that I would throw in here that the worst moment I can recall of this whole journey, was the moment I woke up in the recovery room. There was a nurse standing over me, and asking me where I hurt. I can barely get out a sound at this point and it feels like it is coming from someone else. Of course, I say..My stomach, and my back. "Well," she says to me..." you just had surgery on your stomach and was on a hard stretcher for a few hours, of course your stomach and back hurt." So now, I want to hit this nurse and ask her what did you ask me for if I wasn't supposed to tell you? But I am not moving or even hardly talking yet...so I just groan. This of course does not seem to please this miserable recovery nurse who gives me a dirty look. Now of all the places you would want a caring, and thoughtful nurse, wouldn't recovery be one of them. OOOOhhhh....did she make me mad! Too bad I wasn't with it enough to take names....I would like to ask her if she didn't think she could adjust her attitude a little better for waking patients....What a world!

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