Iceeprincess
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Last Thursday. 4/14, I came down with what I thought at first was
going to be a bout of the stomach flu.....it turned out to be
appendicitis.
My best bud Ellen took me to the ER Thursday evening. They Did a CT
scan. It was appendicitis but they also found out I had a big ol
hernia which had been around a
while and I didn't know it.
Things were a mess in there. Evidently some small bowel
and some large intestine was on the wrong side of the abdominal muscle
and
had formed adhesion's all over the place. (I know...I know...how was
I not aware?)
My surgeon had to completely de-adhere my guts where they had adhered
to the gut wall and move them to their proper place to get to the
appendix which, thankfully, had not ruptured. She cut me from pubes
to navel and went in and did adhesion housekeeping....before she could
take out the appendix.
Surgery went fine. In a room at the hospital. Usual hospital stuff,
poke , prod, BP seems like every 5 minutes.
I was dead asleep on Friday night (as much as you can sleep in a
hospital) when I awoke with a start... I had developed a heart
arrhythmia which would not stop. I told the nurse that my heart was
racing and pounding. She checked...and all of a sudden everybody got
really busy.
I was whisked upstairs to the Cardiac floor and ensconced in a room
there. They tried different stuff in IV to get the heart to go back
to a normal sinus rhythm. No such luck, my heart was being stubborn.
Evidently you have about a 36 hour window before arrhythmia becomes
damaging or dangerous.
So...since it did not stop...they decided to do a cardio-avert
procedure. Which is basically this:
They lay you down. Put a patch on the front and a patch on the back
with electrodes attached. They give you a sedative shot to knock
you completely out for about 10 minutes. Then they shock you the
same way they shock ( with 'paddles') a patient who hashad a heart
stoppage. They lay you down, put a pad over the heart, and one on
the back and then give you a jolt. It stops your heart for a little
bit and then it is supposed to restart itself in it's normal sinus
rhythm.
They had to shock me three times.
Oh, I forgot to tell you my RN said he didn't like being in the room
when they do the procedure. He called it violent. He saysyour body
comes up off the table when they do it.
Somebody said they hoped there were no video's floating around on
YouTube of me levitating off the hospital bed.
So. The bottom line is it worked. Heart is back to normal.
Needless to say I'm about a lively as a wet rag and I'm sore as HELL
in my gut, and my skin is burned from the cardio-avert, my armslook
like I've been a junkie for years, and I have a line of staples down
my stomach from navel to pussy that looks like something out of
Frankenstein. Seriously. I have pictures.
My surgeon released me on Monday from her service since I was
recovering nicely in the gut area. The Cardiologist wanted to make
sure the heart was at a normal sinus rhythm for at least 24 hours
before he let me go. Got to come home Tuesday afternoon. Have mostly
slept since. Seem to be recovering nicely but obviously sloooooowly.
Probably will go back to work next week. I have a follow up with the
surgeon on Monday. I'm not sure how long they will keep these staples
in. I'm starting to like the shock factor every time I see them.
Here's my take on this whole thing.
I've been working steadily to bring about healing and reworking of my
body. To treat it with more respect than I've given it in the past
few years and to clean out all old cellular forms and thought forms
that no longer serve me in the vision of what a whole human being
is. I've been asking Spirit to assist me in removing frommy life
everything that was holding me and dragging on me, to help me release
and let go.
I figure that angry little appendix was a trigger....a 'start' button
to a sequence of things that needed to be taken care of that I was not
even consciously aware of. It sent me to a place and to people who
were loving enough, smart enough, and skilled enough to eliminate
these problems from my body without an inordinate amount of hardship
and suffering. Once again Higher Self, Spirit, The Universe, God,
whatever you prefer to call it, answered my call and things worked out
appropriately even though I could not see the whole picture at the
time.
So......How was your weekend?
going to be a bout of the stomach flu.....it turned out to be
appendicitis.
My best bud Ellen took me to the ER Thursday evening. They Did a CT
scan. It was appendicitis but they also found out I had a big ol
hernia which had been around a
while and I didn't know it.
Things were a mess in there. Evidently some small bowel
and some large intestine was on the wrong side of the abdominal muscle
and
had formed adhesion's all over the place. (I know...I know...how was
I not aware?)
My surgeon had to completely de-adhere my guts where they had adhered
to the gut wall and move them to their proper place to get to the
appendix which, thankfully, had not ruptured. She cut me from pubes
to navel and went in and did adhesion housekeeping....before she could
take out the appendix.
Surgery went fine. In a room at the hospital. Usual hospital stuff,
poke , prod, BP seems like every 5 minutes.
I was dead asleep on Friday night (as much as you can sleep in a
hospital) when I awoke with a start... I had developed a heart
arrhythmia which would not stop. I told the nurse that my heart was
racing and pounding. She checked...and all of a sudden everybody got
really busy.
I was whisked upstairs to the Cardiac floor and ensconced in a room
there. They tried different stuff in IV to get the heart to go back
to a normal sinus rhythm. No such luck, my heart was being stubborn.
Evidently you have about a 36 hour window before arrhythmia becomes
damaging or dangerous.
So...since it did not stop...they decided to do a cardio-avert
procedure. Which is basically this:
They lay you down. Put a patch on the front and a patch on the back
with electrodes attached. They give you a sedative shot to knock
you completely out for about 10 minutes. Then they shock you the
same way they shock ( with 'paddles') a patient who hashad a heart
stoppage. They lay you down, put a pad over the heart, and one on
the back and then give you a jolt. It stops your heart for a little
bit and then it is supposed to restart itself in it's normal sinus
rhythm.
They had to shock me three times.
Oh, I forgot to tell you my RN said he didn't like being in the room
when they do the procedure. He called it violent. He saysyour body
comes up off the table when they do it.
Somebody said they hoped there were no video's floating around on
YouTube of me levitating off the hospital bed.
So. The bottom line is it worked. Heart is back to normal.
Needless to say I'm about a lively as a wet rag and I'm sore as HELL
in my gut, and my skin is burned from the cardio-avert, my armslook
like I've been a junkie for years, and I have a line of staples down
my stomach from navel to pussy that looks like something out of
Frankenstein. Seriously. I have pictures.
My surgeon released me on Monday from her service since I was
recovering nicely in the gut area. The Cardiologist wanted to make
sure the heart was at a normal sinus rhythm for at least 24 hours
before he let me go. Got to come home Tuesday afternoon. Have mostly
slept since. Seem to be recovering nicely but obviously sloooooowly.
Probably will go back to work next week. I have a follow up with the
surgeon on Monday. I'm not sure how long they will keep these staples
in. I'm starting to like the shock factor every time I see them.
Here's my take on this whole thing.
I've been working steadily to bring about healing and reworking of my
body. To treat it with more respect than I've given it in the past
few years and to clean out all old cellular forms and thought forms
that no longer serve me in the vision of what a whole human being
is. I've been asking Spirit to assist me in removing frommy life
everything that was holding me and dragging on me, to help me release
and let go.
I figure that angry little appendix was a trigger....a 'start' button
to a sequence of things that needed to be taken care of that I was not
even consciously aware of. It sent me to a place and to people who
were loving enough, smart enough, and skilled enough to eliminate
these problems from my body without an inordinate amount of hardship
and suffering. Once again Higher Self, Spirit, The Universe, God,
whatever you prefer to call it, answered my call and things worked out
appropriately even though I could not see the whole picture at the
time.
So......How was your weekend?