purplefluffything
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Hello friends, went in formy pump replacement op yesterday.
Unfortunately it did not go to plan :cry: I was woken up after just after 2 hrs & told they took out my old pump but could not replace the new one .
You can imagine how i felt.. My surgeon went on to tell me with great regret he felt it would be better to close me up and I come back in a week or two.
After being in recovery & in terrific pain I had lots of morphine ( the nursing staff were shocked that my consultant just got hold of the injection & gave me a ful 10 mg of morphine in one go! They wld have given me 2mg at a time. It's because I'm so immune to it)
I was taken back to the ward to recover & monitored as I was being sick too.
Consultant came to see me & explained when they checked the catheter it was blocked he cld not get any csf out of it, he said it was rather blocked half way of at the tip and if it was the tip I cld have a granuloma which is dangerous for me ( the catheter sits in intrathcal space where all nerves are) the granuloma can squash nerves paralysingly me or giving me problems .
So the plan is for me to go back in two weeks ( got to book a theatre space) I have got to go under. & have a 6 hr op and most likely end up with a spinal headache having to lay flat for days. In theatre they have to
get special op table so I will be face down and special tube which goes down ur throat but one the anaesthetist can make sure I can breath easy with..
Yes I know I will be getting my pain pump, but am more frightened as I hate being put out and hate the awful sickness when I come round, I'm always sick even though they give me stuff to combat it..
I thought I would be recovery so I cld then get on with my next appt at Whittington for my wls, I can't do anything until this is sorted..
Thanks for reading.
Hugs xxx
Unfortunately it did not go to plan :cry: I was woken up after just after 2 hrs & told they took out my old pump but could not replace the new one .
You can imagine how i felt.. My surgeon went on to tell me with great regret he felt it would be better to close me up and I come back in a week or two.
After being in recovery & in terrific pain I had lots of morphine ( the nursing staff were shocked that my consultant just got hold of the injection & gave me a ful 10 mg of morphine in one go! They wld have given me 2mg at a time. It's because I'm so immune to it)
I was taken back to the ward to recover & monitored as I was being sick too.
Consultant came to see me & explained when they checked the catheter it was blocked he cld not get any csf out of it, he said it was rather blocked half way of at the tip and if it was the tip I cld have a granuloma which is dangerous for me ( the catheter sits in intrathcal space where all nerves are) the granuloma can squash nerves paralysingly me or giving me problems .
So the plan is for me to go back in two weeks ( got to book a theatre space) I have got to go under. & have a 6 hr op and most likely end up with a spinal headache having to lay flat for days. In theatre they have to
get special op table so I will be face down and special tube which goes down ur throat but one the anaesthetist can make sure I can breath easy with..
Yes I know I will be getting my pain pump, but am more frightened as I hate being put out and hate the awful sickness when I come round, I'm always sick even though they give me stuff to combat it..
I thought I would be recovery so I cld then get on with my next appt at Whittington for my wls, I can't do anything until this is sorted..
Thanks for reading.
Hugs xxx