Rooflyer said
I spent 2 nights in hospital - first night was a given, second night I told them I wasn't going anywhere until the intense pain was managed. (Sorry
@coriander , I didn't mention this before ).
I've been fairly quiet about my op as I didn't want to "mozz" myself plus the above post gave me no joy. I had my surgery on Monday 01/08. Trepidation about perioperative pain discussed with my anaesthetist. Woke up after surgery feeling really good - asked nurse why - she said "hah, wait till local wears off". Back into the ward by 9:30pm, given 2 panadols and a Palexia tablet. Woken at midnight for a heparin shot.
Next morning woke after great sleep...... didn't want to move in case it hurt. Sat up slowly..... nothing hurts. WTF?
But, but, @RooFlyer said ........ Got out of bed and groin area felt as if someone was trying to pull sticky bandage off my skin - very superficial medium grade pain. Took a couple of panadols, got dressed.... aaah. ouch ... can't bend down to put socks on. MrsC gets my socks and runners on. Home and off to bed took a Palexia before bed, slept like a baby.
T+2 got up, no pain from surgical area, can actually bend to touch as far as medium calf. Pottered around home - only 2500 steps, but no pain at all.
T+3 - hooray I can get socks and shoes on, twinges a bit as I do up laces. Walked, well ambled 5000 steps. Get very tired easily. Mrs C injecting Heparin every morning giving me small purple spots to mark previous injections.
T+4 ambled my 10,000 steps. Just a bit of leg-meets-groin discomfort. Still very tired which puzzles me as I wasn't that tired after my heart surgery seventeen years ago.
T+7 - off for another round of bloods as WCC and folate have fallen, my haematologist wants to check that all is ok.
Wednesday (T+9), my birthday! Annabel rings. "How nice to ring me on my birthday", I think.
She actually sounded concerned. "
Your neutrophils have dropped more but your haemoglobin has fallen off a cliff and your platelet count is 28. I want you to have a bone marrow biopsy first thing tomorrow." Umm, the last time my platelet count dropped under 50 was during my stem cell transplant (I think it dropped to 3) and they immediately gave me a platelet transfusion.
I discuss briefly with her: where has my Hgb gone? Did I bleed out on the table or something? No, my total protein is normal, my paraprotein is zero (whew!) - that's why we need a BMB.
So I had my BMB on Thursday and now await results. BMB didn't hurt at all apart from the initial local anaesthetic (it seems counter-intuitive that local anaesthetics hurt on injection). The registrar doing the biopsy said the smears looked ok but of course doesn't mean much until a pathologist has a squizz.
Hmm. Apart from my dangly bits turning black for 48 hours after the surgery, there's no evidence of bruising anywhere. My heparin-induced spots are fading, my urine is mildly yellow (I'dve thought much more or reddish even if Hgb is being broken down to bilirubin/biliverdin as I see in in my patients).
Since last blood test, the only thing that's changed is the surgery. As for meds I've had midazolam, morphine, propofol, panadol, hydromorphone, clexane before....... but never ever had heparin.
I wonder........ HIT?
Hopefully we get some answers Monday. We leave for EU in 23 days.