to be bricking it because i am having a shoulder op' tomorrow...

[jeanswithatwist]

not even worried about the agony the next few days the follow, just hate having a ga' for fear of not waking up again....been watching too many episodes of House

I've had a couple of shoulder ops too. I love the feeling of slipping off to sleep in a GA! The anaesthetist was wonderful both times.

Good luck. Take your time recovering,don't push it too much, let it heal. Baggy clothes (track suit bottoms, ponchos, wraps) make life easier initially.

good luck for today!

In recovery now. Sore throat due to tube. Can't feel right arm or fingers, really weird. Something tells me I am going to have some fun with this sling . Dd and dh won't know what's hit them. Time for a bit of spring cleaning..

Haha. My dh and dd have been absolutely amazing . I couldn't pull up my own leggings for 2 days and couldn't get a top on alone for week or more.
Couldn't prep food, clean or fill kettle ... they've been utterly amazing and oddly enough now REALLY APPRECIATE what I do that they'd never even noticed

Glad it went well :).

Congratulations!

I've had 2 GAs.

It's like going to sleep then when you wake up you're all dozy & emotional.

Bit like me normally then... :D

Good luck for tomorrow jeans. Hope all goes well (bet it does) and you're home again in no time for kitty cuddles!

Gah! It was today, wasn't it? Fail.
Still sending huge positive vibes to you anyway!

Glad it went well. Hope you don't make the mistake I did and order spaghetti for your post op meal - big, messy error. Still, it prepared me for toddlers.....

Thanks everyone. When I got in I spent half hour trying to butter crackers with left hand. Gave up in the end and ate them dry although the general anaesthetic and throat tube have made my mouth seriously dry, needless to say eating dry crackers hasn't helped . What an idiot. The place is a tip and I can't do bugger all about it as feel really ropey. Kitten isn't helping matters . as one poster rightly pointed out, this is the time dd and dh will c how much I do around the place ????

Bugger the tip. And make the family pamper you. Not that they should need making.

That's hilarious about the crackers .... they gave me toast butter and jam in hospital. I tried holding the plate with my forehead before giving up and spreading it with bare finger.
I didn't eat for 3 weeks barely. Lost 8lb wooòò

Most importantly take.your meds when due. Keep on top.of the pain don't wait for it to buildup

QOD thanks for the tip re meds. the blocking injection into the neck has worked really well as had it at 9am and only just beginning to feel mild (beginnings...) of shoulder pain coming through. i was going to leave meds (coccodamol) until the pain hit, probably in middle of the night. feel odd taking a strong PC with no real pain

My surgeon was so intense about pay relief. He went on and on. Take it on a timed basis. If you let the pain break through it's awful and so hard to get it under control.
I was on meds 2 hourly on rotation. Orsmorph then tramadol then cocodamol and repeat
Did you have your shoulder filed?
I'll show you my beginning of surgery and end of ... gross
Photo taken in same place 2.5 hrs apart. You can see shredded nothing Ness then lovely smooth reattached tendons

Ooh, great pictures. I had my op last August, wish I had asked for copies of my X-ray and scan pics.

I didn't ask ... he insisted haha as he said he'd never seen anything quite like it in someone my age.
2 completely utterly detached and muscles had retracted
1 hanging by a thread
Arthritis all crunchy so he had to file off 1/3 of the shoulder bone
Rock hard bursa /bursitis
Ganglion cyst inside
Was a bit of a wreck and I presented with burning pain but about 70% movement because I'm hypermobile and had also trained up some other muscles somehow to hold my arm on

blimey QOD, you must have been in agony. my case seems relatively minor compared to yours. he shaved the bone and flushed out the calcium. oddly enough my shoulder wasn't hurting anywhere near as much the few weeks before the op. he said i had less calcium deposit than the xrays had shown so at a guess it was healing. feels very swollen/stiff. huge pads stuck on (not allowed to remove) with lots of blood , its freaking dh and dd out. still, i have regained use of my right hand much to dh relief as i kept threatening him with bum wiping