A Place of My Own

Well it seems that today took a weird turn of events.  I had gotten up, gone to the bathroom and walked down the hall.  The nurse told me that I was ok to get dressed so I could go home.  She had even removed my IV.  I went to get up off the bed and something in my incision area popped and I was in severe pain.  I continued to try to get up so I could see if my leg had just turned in a bad way when I started to feel sick to my stomach.  I got very dizzy and the next thing I know, I was laying on the bed, 5 or 6 people were standing over me calling my name.   I had a nasal canula in my nose with 2 liters of oxygen running, my arms and hands were tingly, and I couldn’t breathe.

I had passed out.  I don’t remember anything that happened.  Mama and Brian say that I was white as a sheet.  They will have to give more details about all that.  The nurse said that I scared her to death.  I had to have another IV placed and they put me on fluids.  Mama said that the doctor thought I was dehydrated so they wanted me on fluids for two hours.  I could eat supper and they would try to get me up again to go home.  She says if I’m not ready, they won’t send me home.

Brian was very upset.  He thinks they had tried to get me up too early.  That’s probably true.  So now I am at the end of my two ours of fluids.  I have been to the bathroom and I am feeling much better.  Brian says that I look much better.  So I guess they are going to get me up to walk and try to get me ready to go home.  What a day!  I have never felt like that before – I have never passed out before.  Weird.

So hopefully I will get to go home soon?  We’ll see when I get up.  I will post if anything changes.

Thanks for the love today and the prayers.