Tomorrow is the Day

Tomorrow is the day that the next procedure will happen to get me closer to pain free, or at least tolerable pain so I am not so dependent on medications to lessen the pain enough for me to be able to function.

I am looking forward to the procedure with baited breath because the conscious sedation did not go very well last time. I in my opinion was far too aware of what the good doctor was doing. Not the most pleasent sensation poking a nerve intentionally.

Tomorrow's schedule will go something like this. Wake up with my alarm at 4:30am so I can take a nice long hot shower. Get dressed pull meds and hook my tens unit up since I will not be able to take my pain meds due to the medications that they will be using for the procedure. And the tens unit will help keep the muscles relaxed, it truely has been a god-send for the past couple of weeks. I will be able to take my steroids, and my thyroid medication and my acid reflux meds but that is it until after the procedure, and I am going to be pushing my luck taking prednisone without any food on my stomach but that is one of the medications that I can not miss, especially with the stress of a procedure on my adrenal glands that don't function due to my adrenal insufficency. And put on EMLA numbing cream as soon as I get out of the shower on 2 sites so whichever nurse I end up with has some choice and it wont hurt when they go fishing for IV access.

I will wake up mom about 5:15am or so so she has time to take her meds, get something to drink if she so chooses and get dressed.

We are supposed to check in at day surgery at 6:00 and my procedure is supposed to start at 7:30am. I will have the same team that I have had for the previous 3 procedures that this doctor has done. It shouldn't take more than an hour in the procedure room, closer to 30-45minutes but it is scheduled for an hour just in case. I should be in holding after the procedure for about 30 minutes that is about how long it takes me to wake up good enough to have something to drink and keep it down, although it is hard to puke anything up with my fundoplication.

Then I will go home take some pain meds and a muscle relaxer, put on my CPAP and go off into la la land again. It takes me about 24 hours to be back to totally normal and not have a drugged up outlook.

Thank you for your prayers, I am more nervous about this because of the not so hot experience with the sedation the last time.

Melinda