Recovery

Finally at 6ish I was wheeled into recovery HDU where my care was taken over by a lovely but slightly stressed nurse Gillian whose job it was to observe my obs and keep my pain under control.

Everything seemed to be fine,I spoke to Scott and my mum on the phone they weren't allowed into the HDU and I felt ok.

But then it all started going wrong the Epidural started to wear off and the pain was getting unbearable so the anaethesist was called to up the Epidural,15 minutes later he arrived and the pain was hideous by this point and I was barely holding it together :( He topped up the Epidural and I was told it would be 10 minutes and the pain would be under control,it didn't happen :(

The nurses then changed shifts and the wonderful Jenny became my nurse and she took control she set up a morphine pump which I could press every 5 minutes,it didn't take the pain away but it eased it but she wasn't happy with this she wanted it all gone!So she tried her hadest to get me a nerve block but the on call doctor was having none of it!Jenny stayed by my side from 8pm till 7am and it was a very tough night for both of us :( We sat and had tea and I cried and she reassured me and she continued to badger the doctor who kept coming and upping my epidural but it wasn't even numbing me!

When she went off shift at 7am Gillian came back on and the aneathesist from the operation was there within an hour giving me a nerve block he cut into my groin and put a small tube down with a anesethitic in which worked within half an hour and I became pain free along with the help of the morphine!

I was then moved to a private ward as there was no beds available anywhere else in the hospital and I was finally able to see Scott again as he had stayed over night and hadn't been able to see me since 2pm the previous day I can only imagine how worried he was :(

So my room was lovely it had patio doors leading out on to some beautiful gardens I had an ensuite not that this mattered as I had a catheter in!A huge wardrobe for all my stuff and a plasma TV happy days :)

I don't remember much of Friday I think I slept on and off for most of it,Tommo came to see me in the evening with a huge bowl of Haribo and a balloon I don't really rememeber much else think the morphine might have been taking effect!He took Scott home to Blackpool with him at about 7ish and I chilled for the night.