Well, first of all, I have called 111 and they are concerned enough to have contacted my out of hours GP service who will call me before 6am. So it’s in hand.
Secondly, I am not in any pain at all so I’m fine, but I am very quite a bit worried
I have had no pain relief since 5pm when I had fentanyl. I can’t feel anything at all now, maybe because I have had a nerve block in my leg, but my heel hurt when I walked on it at 7pm but hasn’t hurt since. I would have thought the nerve block would have blocked the pain before, not later.
I can’t feel my toes though if I touch them I feel pins and needles. I can feel a needle putting a little bit of pressure on them but I don’t feel sharpness or a scratch. I can waggle them a millimetre then I can’t waggle them at all. This recurs. My leg and foot are warm and swollen, but that might be normal. I could waggle my toes at 7pm which pleased the physiotherapist, so not sure why I now can’t.
I did think the toes being numb and not waggling was because the boot was too tight, but I have had it off for an hour now and it hasn’t improved. I will put it back on to go to the loo in a sec.
Two of the wounds are seeping blood very slowly but one has soaked through the gauze dressing completely. The junior surgeon removed the larger bandage when he fitted the boot and the notes said not to remove it until tomorrow evening. I gave myself a blood thinning injection as instructed at 10pm.
This makes me think I’m not overreacting, and 111 have instructed my GP service, but maybe it’s just a couple of stitches opening and the nerve block which lasts up to 24 hours.
And DH has drunk a bottle of wine while we’ve been home. To be fair, when I told the surgeon he wanted to go to the restaurant/pub, if I stayed in, he did say DH could still go if I went home. We thought it was going to be fine because everyone was urging me to go home. But now it means he can’t drive me till 6am when he’ll be legal, and 8.30 when he’ll be sober if I need to go back to hospital. Do not come for the walrus, he is mortified and we never thought he might need to drive me anywhere till Friday. And he is a brilliant husband who might have made a mistake.
I think I just need a handhold if anyone’s up.
You know how you all said to have sedation for my gastroscopy? You were right. Two of my family members have had one without and said it was the worst experience of their life, so thank you all 💙
Earlier I was asked if the anaesthetist could talk to me in the waiting area and I said a firm no. Mainly because I could hear him talking to that young lad from earlier, so I wanted privacy.
I was offered a local or a local and sedation rather than a general but it was a change of plan and left to me to decide so I felt overwhelmed and I had a general.
At 7pm the physiotherapist said I could go home if I wanted and I thought I would be better off and more comfortable at home, so I left around 8.25. But I now think I should have stayed overnight. I will follow my instincts next time.