We arrived and had to wait about 30 minutes. When we got into the room the nurse took vitals etc and I asked for pain meds and she said she could not give me any because the doc had towrite a order for them. I was in there what seemed like forever (im guessing 2 hours) before i saw a doctor. The doctor said he thought my back was just irritated and if i went home and took my pain pills at home i would be fine.. I told him NO that is not going to work. After him leaving and returning a few times i told him I wanted a Xray at least. He said since i wanted it so bad he would order it. THe pain was very bad so they admitted me to the hospital shortly after. They finally did a cT scan and an mri. They found 2 Abcesses of infection right where the surgery was done. Noone could answer why it happened. I had a fever of about 104.2 now. I think my highest i got was 104.8. My neurosurgeon drove up from springfield and decided they need to do surgery right then.
He opened me up debrided the infection and cleaned etc. He installed a cool drain bag that i actually got to play with it was neat to see my blood and Spoooge in a bag. (weird). After they decided to sennd me to icu at Mercy in springfield. I was there till the end of my stay. I was in the hospital 10 days total. Of all those days i remember maybe 3 days total. I remember seeing things and Hearing people. I just wanna say thank you so much for everyone who came and saw me. I wanted to die so bad when i had my fever, i could not even think my brain was boiling like eggs and ham... I just wanna point out that Mercy's ICU is awesome but once i got to the Med Surge floor it was a wreck. Nurseswere rude , Everyone seemed to hate their jobs and tok it out on me. I was definately seeing things and stuff so maybe it was better then i saw and heard :).
When i got sent home i was sent away with a Pic line in my arm to give myself IV antibiotics. I have to stay on those 6-8 weeks. It sucks!!!! I have to wrap it up every time i take a shower so it doesn't get wet :/. I was taking 2 doses/day until my skin fell off my hands and i was bleeding too. They reduced my dose to once a day because the skin falling off. Now im noticing my skin is falling off my feet also. Real annoying. Im on antibiotics and still getting messed up. URGH!. So now im home, Things are going ok. Every day is a tossup as to what pain ill be in. Some days are good and some days i can barely walk. Im really hoping to get this crap over and done with. My neurosurgeon says he wont operate on me now for at least a year because of the infection. So guess it will be more time at home which is nice spending time with kaylee but it gets old real quick not working! PICTURES TO COME!!!!!
