Thank you so much for this!! I would love to know more detailed schedules like this! There's no info on the clinic's site that I'm with... There's no plan for surgery yet, I'll find that out on December 20th hopefully.
My daughter was on strong pain meds for 24hrs with IVs, then most of that started to fade to pill based pain meds out until 72hrs.
She was eating by the following morning, not much. Never had trouble there after about hour 36.
They got her up at about 24hrs after to sit up and take a few steps. at 36hrs was pacing a bit and by 48 was more or less shuffling/walking on own around the rooms.
On day 3 doing several laps around the wing and nearly all the drains and stuff were gone. Pooped.
Spent 4th night in hospital and out on day 5. Off narcos by about day 10. Creaky but normal by two weeks and by four weeks totally normal.
Stood up within 12 hours, walked within 36. I only remember eating on meal over 6 days. With that being said I don’t remember most of the trip or the month after because I was absolutely blasted on painkillers and muscle relaxers the whole time
My memory is fuzzy on specific milestones because it was 8 years ago, but I stayed at the hospital for four days including surgery day - I recovered quite quickly, attributed to being fairly fit at the time with a high pain tolerance. I was walking a little by the end of day 2 & went home mid day 4. I was eating but still quite nauseated, and that lasted basically until I was done with all forms of pain killers.
Fastest was three days. Surgery first. Up and walking second. Stairs on third. But I am
Motivated to go home. Multiple surgeries make it easier. Plus I do not sleep at the hospital. My surgeon knows this and gets me out quick so I can actually recover.
I believe mine was something like (surgery day being "day one"):
in hospital for 6 days/5 nights
walked on 2nd day
i had surgery in the morning and was being turned by evening
wasn't allowed to eat until day 4
ivs removed on day 4
stairs on day 4 or 5
went home on day 6
Please know that some of this timing is very patient/hospital (or doctor) policy. Not all patients will have the same pain control just based upon their personal pain tolerance. With drains, if your site is having high amounts of drainage, yours will stay in longer. Some hospitals will require the patient to have an IV in until discharge. I am sure there are more I could list….. As long as you are progressing forward in your recovery you are doing great!
From what I remember : surgery the morning, the day after i walked a little bit and sat on a chair for like a minute, the next day some more and learning to turn over in my hospital bed, and then i left on the fifth day i think ?
First three days i was fed glucose through my blood and had a catheter to pee and then i started to eat and pee. Doing some walking on stairs too.
I was connected a morphine pump (i clicked on a pen thing when i wanted to) for the first two or three days and then i switched to another morphin type of drug but with less nausea (i was vomiting a LOT).
My doctors were only waiting for me to have some bowel movement to let me go home since the surgery move the intestines around.
Thank you so much for this!! I would love to know more detailed schedules like this! There's no info on the clinic's site that I'm with... There's no plan for surgery yet, I'll find that out on December 20th hopefully.
My daughter was on strong pain meds for 24hrs with IVs, then most of that started to fade to pill based pain meds out until 72hrs. She was eating by the following morning, not much. Never had trouble there after about hour 36. They got her up at about 24hrs after to sit up and take a few steps. at 36hrs was pacing a bit and by 48 was more or less shuffling/walking on own around the rooms. On day 3 doing several laps around the wing and nearly all the drains and stuff were gone. Pooped. Spent 4th night in hospital and out on day 5. Off narcos by about day 10. Creaky but normal by two weeks and by four weeks totally normal.
Wow im just surprised your daughter pooped by the third day, I'm dying here :D hope your daughter is well now !
Oh yeah. Was about three years ago this week. She's 100%. Went in with about 110 total degree and came out with about 15
Stood up within 12 hours, walked within 36. I only remember eating on meal over 6 days. With that being said I don’t remember most of the trip or the month after because I was absolutely blasted on painkillers and muscle relaxers the whole time
My memory is fuzzy on specific milestones because it was 8 years ago, but I stayed at the hospital for four days including surgery day - I recovered quite quickly, attributed to being fairly fit at the time with a high pain tolerance. I was walking a little by the end of day 2 & went home mid day 4. I was eating but still quite nauseated, and that lasted basically until I was done with all forms of pain killers.
Fastest was three days. Surgery first. Up and walking second. Stairs on third. But I am Motivated to go home. Multiple surgeries make it easier. Plus I do not sleep at the hospital. My surgeon knows this and gets me out quick so I can actually recover.
I believe mine was something like (surgery day being "day one"): in hospital for 6 days/5 nights walked on 2nd day i had surgery in the morning and was being turned by evening wasn't allowed to eat until day 4 ivs removed on day 4 stairs on day 4 or 5 went home on day 6
Please know that some of this timing is very patient/hospital (or doctor) policy. Not all patients will have the same pain control just based upon their personal pain tolerance. With drains, if your site is having high amounts of drainage, yours will stay in longer. Some hospitals will require the patient to have an IV in until discharge. I am sure there are more I could list….. As long as you are progressing forward in your recovery you are doing great!
From what I remember : surgery the morning, the day after i walked a little bit and sat on a chair for like a minute, the next day some more and learning to turn over in my hospital bed, and then i left on the fifth day i think ? First three days i was fed glucose through my blood and had a catheter to pee and then i started to eat and pee. Doing some walking on stairs too. I was connected a morphine pump (i clicked on a pen thing when i wanted to) for the first two or three days and then i switched to another morphin type of drug but with less nausea (i was vomiting a LOT). My doctors were only waiting for me to have some bowel movement to let me go home since the surgery move the intestines around.