It feels good to get back to all of my DC family of friends. I got out of the hospital on thursday the 18th at 9 pm. Surgery all went well. Surgery lasted 4 1/2 hours. I was in the recovery room for 4 hours. The whole day was just a blur to me. What the doctors thought was a mass shaped like a ball, was in reality, a mass intertwined, wrapped around my left kidney several times, they described it like a cinnamon roll. Once it was unwrapped it was 8" in diameter. My left kidney had to be removed. We found out wednesday that it was benign. Praise God!!!! It's the first time in my life that I have been so happy that I was crying.
I have an 18" incision right down the front of my abdomen full of staples that I get out this thursday.There has been more pain in my left side & back more than in the incision. The doc. explained they left side had to be pulled back 5 ", my colon temporarily taken out & a few other internal organs moved around to be able to get at this thing. So, the side pain is my muscles just growing back together. The muscle spasms are the worst. I am taking hydrocordone & valum as well as tylenol. Have been using the heating pad alot too. I was only prescribed enough prescription med.'s to get through the weekend. I will definitely be calling for more first thing monday morning.
I am still on a soft diet, I pushed that a bit on saturday as I have been craving foods with seasoning & something I could chew or crunch. Found out real quick the pain associated with that was not worth it at all. One of the things that really bums me out is that I ate nothing for 7 days, just those IV bags I was hooked up to & I gained 20#! How frustrating!! Hope that comes off quickly.
Missing the pool terribly, all in good time. Now here I have to sit....healing. I have never made a real good patient. I do not think much about sitting around & sleeping so much. I mentally feel like I'm ready to get life back to normal, physically a little slower than I want to be.
Thank you again to all of my family of friends here at DC for all of your prayers, good wishes & support. It means more than any of you will ever know.