I'm home

[Guest guest]

Alpine – I’m so glad

everything went well. I had my share of respiratory problems after my surgery

too. So, I know what you went through. You do get better every day.

Congratulations for coming over to the “completed”

revision side.

Lorrie Snyder

From: [mailto: ] On Behalf Of thegouldianlady2004

Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 8:33

AM

Subject: [ ] I'm

Home

Hi Everyone - I'm an offical revisee, if that's a

word. My surgery

went very well, as expected 8 or so hours long, lost a lot of blood

and needed 5 units (3 of my own). Unfortunately I did have

complications with my lungs and came down with pnemonia (sp?). On

top of that I was given a muscle relaxer called Robaxin, had an

allergic reaction and went into respitory failure. So to say the

least times were tough. I had my ups and downs while in the

hospital, denied rehab because I was walking too far to qualify, so

after 10 days I was discharged, and I was going to go into a hotel

for a couple of days before traveling home, but my husband and I

needed to stop at Dr. LaGrone's office first for prescriptions. I

was in a tremendous amount of pain and every step was painful and I

cried out quite a bit. So to my surprise Dr. LaGrone put me right

back in the hospital and this time I qualified for rehab. Go

figure. I spent another week in rehab basically gaining strength

for the flight home. We flew home on July 19th and it's safe to

say " there's no place like home " . So all in all my hospital stay

was about 2 1/2 weeks.

The flight home went smooth as silk with minimal disccomfort. My

husband had my son bring the Expedition to the airport with an air

matteress in the back and I was able to drive home lying down verses

sitting up which isn't very comfortable right now.

I am about an inch taller and walk like I have a stick up my rear

end. I am very straight!

I know that some of you sent emails and that Sharon was the sleuth

and tracked me down. Thank you for your kind comments and prayers.

I never could have done this without my husband's constant presence

and the friends and family that flew up to Amarillo to walk this

experience with me.

I DO NOT EVER WANT TO DO THIS AGAIN!

Dr. LaGrone and the hospital staff at BSA are remarkable. They were

very faithful in helping me control my pain, they helped with my

emotional lows with great amounts of compassion and TLC. They truly

understand the gravity of this surgery and know that they have an

incredible man in Dr. LaGrone at thier hospital.

I will try to visit you all often and know that I am so very

thankful for the power of prayer and the Grace of God as I went

through this tremendous experience He asked me to endure. Many

amazing events took place through this time of my life and the story

is not over yet!

Hugs to Everyone,

Alpine

[Guest guest]

Alpine,

It is so wonderful to read your post and know that you are home!

You've been on my mind so much and I kept wondering if I just " showed

up " in Amarillo, if I'd be able to find you! Please keep me posted as

to the dates of your follow-up visits...perhaps we can meet then!

Congrats on making it to " the other side " of the OR!

kam

[Guest guest]

I got home yesterday about 4:30. My husband hasn't set my lap top up yet so I finally turned on my pc in the wee hours of the morning, The hip pain is excruciating - brings me to tears. Dr. Hey said that where he inserted most of the hardware and should ease soon. I sure hope so I can get some sleep. I sat on the bench seat last night with my old neck collar on to keep my head up while I slept. I just can't lie down in my bed in any way shape or form. I would definitely recommend a hospital bed which I didn't think I would need. Take it from me, you will need it all! Even the bedside commode just so you can lower yourself up and down on toilet until you are stronger. I wet myself trying to get to the bathroom in time so it took me awhile to get cleaned up and dresses as had gone to get my meds. Must have been a good 30 minutes using all the gadgets to get my socks, undies, etc. on. I'm sure we all have our moments like this when we are first home alone!

I fell asleep and had forgotten to hit send. So I'm back, I just had my first BM at home! Yea! I'm going to continue taking the Senokot for awhile. Now to just get rid of the pain. I was supposed to be one OxyContin 2 bid with Oxycodone for breakthrough pain. Instead I'm getting 2 Oxycodone every 4 hours with Valium every 4 hours for muscle spasms. I just don't feel like it is doing enough so I've added Tylenal an I'm to continue the Relafen. Hopefully everything will even out in a few days.

Peggy