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I Am still experiencing some pain and the healing...
I Am still experiencing some pain and the healing is still not going as well as it should.
I got a ride to the store the other day because I told my husband I did not think I needed a car this week and cold get a ride wherever I wanted to go. WELL WAS I EVER WRONG!
I am not going to get into about how I have been promised to be taken somewhere and then the same person not show up and this has gone on for a few days.
But anyway, the other day the pharmacy I went to did not have the tape I have been using and I was forced to purchase a different brand and I had a complete allergic reaction to it. I was in pain, itching and miserable. It takes me a fair amount of time to dress my wounds myself anyway, so I had to not only redress my wounds, I had to scrub to get all the tape residue from my body, then scrub up with the hibaclense. I took some meds and it still took a good while for the pain to go away, but the itching is still a little bit of a problem and I do not have any benadryl here and no way to go get any because I chose to be without a car this week to keep myself from going places becauseI was bored.
I cant keep my days straight. I woke up this morning thinking it was Saturday and thinking my husband would come home, only to look at my phone and discover it was only Friday! LOL Then my husband calls and says he has gotten some extra work so he will not be home this weekend. So I have made arrangements to get our sons car so I can have a way to the store, it needs a few things done to it anyway so while I have it out I am going to take it by the service station and have it fixed.
Not much to really update, just healing is still going slow, I still have a lot of pain and they have stopped writing me pain meds, which I need to talk to them about Monday. Maybe they can give me something different that I dont have to take so much of and so often to deal with the pain. I think the pain is from the infection more than anything.
I got a ride to the store the other day because I told my husband I did not think I needed a car this week and cold get a ride wherever I wanted to go. WELL WAS I EVER WRONG!
I am not going to get into about how I have been promised to be taken somewhere and then the same person not show up and this has gone on for a few days.
But anyway, the other day the pharmacy I went to did not have the tape I have been using and I was forced to purchase a different brand and I had a complete allergic reaction to it. I was in pain, itching and miserable. It takes me a fair amount of time to dress my wounds myself anyway, so I had to not only redress my wounds, I had to scrub to get all the tape residue from my body, then scrub up with the hibaclense. I took some meds and it still took a good while for the pain to go away, but the itching is still a little bit of a problem and I do not have any benadryl here and no way to go get any because I chose to be without a car this week to keep myself from going places becauseI was bored.
I cant keep my days straight. I woke up this morning thinking it was Saturday and thinking my husband would come home, only to look at my phone and discover it was only Friday! LOL Then my husband calls and says he has gotten some extra work so he will not be home this weekend. So I have made arrangements to get our sons car so I can have a way to the store, it needs a few things done to it anyway so while I have it out I am going to take it by the service station and have it fixed.
Not much to really update, just healing is still going slow, I still have a lot of pain and they have stopped writing me pain meds, which I need to talk to them about Monday. Maybe they can give me something different that I dont have to take so much of and so often to deal with the pain. I think the pain is from the infection more than anything.
I Am still experiencing some pain and the healing...
I Am still experiencing some pain and the healing is still not going as well as it should.
I got a ride to the store the other day because I told my husband I did not think I needed a car this week and cold get a ride wherever I wanted to go. WELL WAS I EVER WRONG!
I am not going to get into about how I have been promised to be taken somewhere and then the same person not show up and this has gone on for a few days.
But anyway, the other day the pharmacy I went to did not have the tape I have been using and I was forced to purchase a different brand and I had a complete allergic reaction to it. I was in pain, itching and miserable. It takes me a fair amount of time to dress my wounds myself anyway, so I had to not only redress my wounds, I had to scrub to get all the tape residue from my body, then scrub up with the hibaclense. I took some meds and it still took a good while for the pain to go away, but the itching is still a little bit of a problem and I do not have any benadryl here and no way to go get any because I chose to be without a car this week to keep myself from going places becauseI was bored.
I cant keep my days straight. I woke up this morning thinking it was Saturday and thinking my husband would come home, only to look at my phone and discover it was only Friday! LOL Then my husband calls and says he has gotten some extra work so he will not be home this weekend. So I have made arrangements to get our sons car so I can have a way to the store, it needs a few things done to it anyway so while I have it out I am going to take it by the service station and have it fixed.
Not much to really update, just healing is still going slow, I still have a lot of pain and they have stopped writing me pain meds, which I need to talk to them about Monday. Maybe they can give me something different that I dont have to take so much of and so often to deal with the pain. I think the pain is from the infection more than anything.
I got a ride to the store the other day because I told my husband I did not think I needed a car this week and cold get a ride wherever I wanted to go. WELL WAS I EVER WRONG!
I am not going to get into about how I have been promised to be taken somewhere and then the same person not show up and this has gone on for a few days.
But anyway, the other day the pharmacy I went to did not have the tape I have been using and I was forced to purchase a different brand and I had a complete allergic reaction to it. I was in pain, itching and miserable. It takes me a fair amount of time to dress my wounds myself anyway, so I had to not only redress my wounds, I had to scrub to get all the tape residue from my body, then scrub up with the hibaclense. I took some meds and it still took a good while for the pain to go away, but the itching is still a little bit of a problem and I do not have any benadryl here and no way to go get any because I chose to be without a car this week to keep myself from going places becauseI was bored.
I cant keep my days straight. I woke up this morning thinking it was Saturday and thinking my husband would come home, only to look at my phone and discover it was only Friday! LOL Then my husband calls and says he has gotten some extra work so he will not be home this weekend. So I have made arrangements to get our sons car so I can have a way to the store, it needs a few things done to it anyway so while I have it out I am going to take it by the service station and have it fixed.
Not much to really update, just healing is still going slow, I still have a lot of pain and they have stopped writing me pain meds, which I need to talk to them about Monday. Maybe they can give me something different that I dont have to take so much of and so often to deal with the pain. I think the pain is from the infection more than anything.
Its been a while since I updated. I am now 18 days...
Its been a while since I updated. I am now 18 days out. I WAY OVER DID things that first week. I was not resting and I was up and doing too much, and now I am paying the price. Plus the nasty flu bug is rampant all over the place and I am having to take extra precaustions to NOT get sick.
I was hoping to get the OK this week to return to work, but that did not happen because I am healing too slow, so my next appointment is the 14th and I will see what that date brings.
Today had has been a pretty bad day, I think we got some form of virus in our house somehow even though we have been very careful not allowing anyone to come over and visit, onlt the housekeeper to help me out with the chores. But I have gone to the pharmacy a few times and could have gotten something from someone there.
My appetite is crap, I dont feel like eating much at all and I have lost 10 pounds, not that I couldnt afford to loose those pounds, but loosing them when your trying to recover from surgury is not a god thing.
I have had a lot of pain, and I am very blessed to have a doctor and nurse who are always asking if I need more meds to control the pain and spasms. I try NOT to take the meds, but I have just more or less given in now and pretty much take them so I dont feel the pain at all. The medication has been an issue.....
My initial perscriptions were an antibiotic, Lortab and Vallium. I had these filled at a Walgreens just down the street from the hospital we use. The cost was $18, My husband picked up my refill of the L and V and the cost was $12.
A couple of days into my recovery I was NOT resting, I was waking up in the middle of the night just screaming in pain, so I called my PS office and I asked for something to help me sleep. The PS initally said Ambian, but the nurse called in Soma because the doc had already left by the time I had called her back and told her what pharmacy to call it in to.and I think he forgot to tell her what it was he wanted me to have. No big deal, I just wanted something to SLEEP through the night instead of every two hours waking up crying and scraming in pain. (I am good with pain tollerance so this isnt just me whining) I used my insurance at a Freds here in town for the soma. She called in 24 pills. When I get to the Freds the pills were not ready, this was 4 hours after she called them in. Then she tells me with my insurance my copay is $72 for 24 pills! I went home and got on my insurance website, those pills should have been $25 not $72, so I have my insurance company contacting the Freds to try and get my money back.
Then a couple of days later I need more pain pills....
BUT the next time I had a script filled, this time was it was antibiotic again, and the L and V I had them filled at a Walmart (The same set of scripts I had gotten at Walgreens at the start of this afventure) because I had to go there to get some stuff and some more bras, I am changing bras a couple of times a day so I wanted some more of those front snap bras the PS told me to get. So I figured instead of two stops I would do it all in one stop so I fill the scripts at Walmart and I was charged $45. WHY the difference? THEN I get home and the lortab shows no refill, but the V does. BOTH had a refill on them on the orders, because this time she gave my scripts to me on paper. So I was an hour away back at the house when I discovered this mistake and I called the store and they looked it up and admited they had made a mistake and had corrected it.
So a few days later I had to go back to the same town and decided I would go online the night before and pre-order the RX because that town is an hour from my house and I would not be back in that town for a few days, so I wanted refills for the V and L. The V would allow me to request online, but the L would not. So I wrote this long letter to the pharmacy, as well as corporate. I NEVER heard a word from either email I sent.
So the next day I went to get my stitches out and my nurse asked me if I needed some more meds called in, I explained my issues with the pharmacy and asked her if I could talk to my mother who is a nurse and have her advice me somewhere closer to home to get my meds filled at and when I had that information I would call her and have her to call them in for me. That was NOT a problem at all. And I go to the Walmart to try and sort all this out with the meds.
I went to the pharmacy first to sort things out because I knew once the order was in it would take a little while to fill the order because everyone and their grandmother is sick right now with some kind of flu or crud. The lines at the pharmacy's are horrid right now. So I go over my entire story and the lady tells me they suddenly found my RX for the Lortab, that it was given an new RX # when I had called in the mistake, yet they failed to tell me this. THEN they tell me something about my doctor not having something updated, I still have no idea what the hell they were talking about and they had to sort that out before my meds could be filled.
So here I am in walmart, I am in pain for two reasons, I had to drive myself the hour to the appointment because my driver suddenly comes down with the flu the morning of my appointment and I refuse to let her take me because I dont want her germs, so I did not take ANY meds that morning other than antibiotic, and second of all because I had the stitches removed, and I felt like I was nipped a little with the sutures, and I may not have been, but I just felt really sore there in my stitch areas. So I was NOT in a good mood at all. So I had to push a buggy around to get the things I need while they fill my meds because I was so upset that day I wasnt thinking I just needed to get one of those electric chairs. Finally they text me to tell me my medications are ready and this time for the SAME 3 MEDS my co=pay is only $25... It was $45 just a few days before. WELL needless to say I have quit using Walmart and I drove home tired, in pain because I refuse to take L and V and drive because it does make me loopy and I was so upset that I forgot to get myself something to eat while in town. By the time I got home I just wanted to take my pills and go to bed and cry myself to sleep.
The next day was no better. My husband decides he is coming home and he is putting his truck in the shop and someone has to come and get him, at 930AM! Hello... everyone is at work, so here I go again, I get in my car and I drive 90 miles one way to get him, and again without meds. By the time I got to him I was READY to take my pills and let him drive.
I called my short term disability insurance company and explained the problems I was having. My regular ins will not help me with anything and my GAP is trying to help me out too. I have lost more work than I was told I would loose, I am having issues healing and issues getting help, so I am waiting to hear back from my insurance companies about possibly getting the GAP to help pay for the extra expenses I am having from the complications because BCBS refuses to help me at all with that and waiting to hear that because my loosing work situation went from cosmetic to medical I may be able to receive some pay while I am off which will help me out I am sure. It would come in handy to have it to pay my housekeeper to come more than once a week while I am down to help me out.
In the meantime, all my medication information has been moved. Today we went to the pharmacy my mother told me would be best for my needs and insurance company and we set up with them so that my nurse can just call in what I need. This is not a large pharmacy like I am used to where I can use an app or website and reorder my RX, but they WILL let me call them and say I am coming in and to please fill such and such RX.
About my healing, I have 3 spots that do not want to heal, they are being REALLY slow and I have the yellowish ooze, but it does not stink, its not green or indicate to me that there is any infection, just that is is healing really slow. I just keep cleaning wounds, and re-dressing them twice a day and in between I a am trying to load up on all the protein I can and vitamins like crazy. My appetite has not been that great but I do force myself to eat a spoon of peanut butter, or a package of tuna or a boiled egg for snacks. Then there are other days where I eat everything in sight!
So that is my update for now. I return to my next appointment on the 14th and I hope and pray that I will be released to go back to work. I miss work and I miss my paychecks rolling in! ( I have a shopping addiction )
I was hoping to get the OK this week to return to work, but that did not happen because I am healing too slow, so my next appointment is the 14th and I will see what that date brings.
Today had has been a pretty bad day, I think we got some form of virus in our house somehow even though we have been very careful not allowing anyone to come over and visit, onlt the housekeeper to help me out with the chores. But I have gone to the pharmacy a few times and could have gotten something from someone there.
My appetite is crap, I dont feel like eating much at all and I have lost 10 pounds, not that I couldnt afford to loose those pounds, but loosing them when your trying to recover from surgury is not a god thing.
I have had a lot of pain, and I am very blessed to have a doctor and nurse who are always asking if I need more meds to control the pain and spasms. I try NOT to take the meds, but I have just more or less given in now and pretty much take them so I dont feel the pain at all. The medication has been an issue.....
My initial perscriptions were an antibiotic, Lortab and Vallium. I had these filled at a Walgreens just down the street from the hospital we use. The cost was $18, My husband picked up my refill of the L and V and the cost was $12.
A couple of days into my recovery I was NOT resting, I was waking up in the middle of the night just screaming in pain, so I called my PS office and I asked for something to help me sleep. The PS initally said Ambian, but the nurse called in Soma because the doc had already left by the time I had called her back and told her what pharmacy to call it in to.and I think he forgot to tell her what it was he wanted me to have. No big deal, I just wanted something to SLEEP through the night instead of every two hours waking up crying and scraming in pain. (I am good with pain tollerance so this isnt just me whining) I used my insurance at a Freds here in town for the soma. She called in 24 pills. When I get to the Freds the pills were not ready, this was 4 hours after she called them in. Then she tells me with my insurance my copay is $72 for 24 pills! I went home and got on my insurance website, those pills should have been $25 not $72, so I have my insurance company contacting the Freds to try and get my money back.
Then a couple of days later I need more pain pills....
BUT the next time I had a script filled, this time was it was antibiotic again, and the L and V I had them filled at a Walmart (The same set of scripts I had gotten at Walgreens at the start of this afventure) because I had to go there to get some stuff and some more bras, I am changing bras a couple of times a day so I wanted some more of those front snap bras the PS told me to get. So I figured instead of two stops I would do it all in one stop so I fill the scripts at Walmart and I was charged $45. WHY the difference? THEN I get home and the lortab shows no refill, but the V does. BOTH had a refill on them on the orders, because this time she gave my scripts to me on paper. So I was an hour away back at the house when I discovered this mistake and I called the store and they looked it up and admited they had made a mistake and had corrected it.
So a few days later I had to go back to the same town and decided I would go online the night before and pre-order the RX because that town is an hour from my house and I would not be back in that town for a few days, so I wanted refills for the V and L. The V would allow me to request online, but the L would not. So I wrote this long letter to the pharmacy, as well as corporate. I NEVER heard a word from either email I sent.
So the next day I went to get my stitches out and my nurse asked me if I needed some more meds called in, I explained my issues with the pharmacy and asked her if I could talk to my mother who is a nurse and have her advice me somewhere closer to home to get my meds filled at and when I had that information I would call her and have her to call them in for me. That was NOT a problem at all. And I go to the Walmart to try and sort all this out with the meds.
I went to the pharmacy first to sort things out because I knew once the order was in it would take a little while to fill the order because everyone and their grandmother is sick right now with some kind of flu or crud. The lines at the pharmacy's are horrid right now. So I go over my entire story and the lady tells me they suddenly found my RX for the Lortab, that it was given an new RX # when I had called in the mistake, yet they failed to tell me this. THEN they tell me something about my doctor not having something updated, I still have no idea what the hell they were talking about and they had to sort that out before my meds could be filled.
So here I am in walmart, I am in pain for two reasons, I had to drive myself the hour to the appointment because my driver suddenly comes down with the flu the morning of my appointment and I refuse to let her take me because I dont want her germs, so I did not take ANY meds that morning other than antibiotic, and second of all because I had the stitches removed, and I felt like I was nipped a little with the sutures, and I may not have been, but I just felt really sore there in my stitch areas. So I was NOT in a good mood at all. So I had to push a buggy around to get the things I need while they fill my meds because I was so upset that day I wasnt thinking I just needed to get one of those electric chairs. Finally they text me to tell me my medications are ready and this time for the SAME 3 MEDS my co=pay is only $25... It was $45 just a few days before. WELL needless to say I have quit using Walmart and I drove home tired, in pain because I refuse to take L and V and drive because it does make me loopy and I was so upset that I forgot to get myself something to eat while in town. By the time I got home I just wanted to take my pills and go to bed and cry myself to sleep.
The next day was no better. My husband decides he is coming home and he is putting his truck in the shop and someone has to come and get him, at 930AM! Hello... everyone is at work, so here I go again, I get in my car and I drive 90 miles one way to get him, and again without meds. By the time I got to him I was READY to take my pills and let him drive.
I called my short term disability insurance company and explained the problems I was having. My regular ins will not help me with anything and my GAP is trying to help me out too. I have lost more work than I was told I would loose, I am having issues healing and issues getting help, so I am waiting to hear back from my insurance companies about possibly getting the GAP to help pay for the extra expenses I am having from the complications because BCBS refuses to help me at all with that and waiting to hear that because my loosing work situation went from cosmetic to medical I may be able to receive some pay while I am off which will help me out I am sure. It would come in handy to have it to pay my housekeeper to come more than once a week while I am down to help me out.
In the meantime, all my medication information has been moved. Today we went to the pharmacy my mother told me would be best for my needs and insurance company and we set up with them so that my nurse can just call in what I need. This is not a large pharmacy like I am used to where I can use an app or website and reorder my RX, but they WILL let me call them and say I am coming in and to please fill such and such RX.
About my healing, I have 3 spots that do not want to heal, they are being REALLY slow and I have the yellowish ooze, but it does not stink, its not green or indicate to me that there is any infection, just that is is healing really slow. I just keep cleaning wounds, and re-dressing them twice a day and in between I a am trying to load up on all the protein I can and vitamins like crazy. My appetite has not been that great but I do force myself to eat a spoon of peanut butter, or a package of tuna or a boiled egg for snacks. Then there are other days where I eat everything in sight!
So that is my update for now. I return to my next appointment on the 14th and I hope and pray that I will be released to go back to work. I miss work and I miss my paychecks rolling in! ( I have a shopping addiction )