Merry Christmas everyone!
I undergo TAHBSO on December 22nd , I was on the patient surgery check in waiting on my side table I saw a clipboard of my files , I can read the diagnosis: Endometrial Cancer (C54.1) It’s a day surgery after 3 hours of operation transfer me to ICU after 2 hours transfer me to recovery room where I slowly start to wake up moaning with pain. Nurse told me that they already infused pain medication on my IV so should not feel more pain. Also explain that during surgery they put a catheter on my wrist arteries to monitor my vital signs. Had to urgency to pee, but I can’t and nurse explained to me that most of the patients reactions are the urgency to pee even it is not, I feel my bladder are really full and too heavy. After 1 hour transfer me to another room where one relatives can come see me, it allow me and gave me water since my mouth and my throat are really dried. Nurse told me that one rule of discharging patient with TAHBSO is to pee and to measure the urine output. Gladly I peed but I still another hour to wait to discharge me as I am still drowsy. My surgery start at 12:00 noon and I was discharged by 7:00 pm with a followed up oncologist order appointment on January 16th and another bloodwork .
January 18th schedule for my chemotherapy.
Now I’m recovering, still in pain since I’m allergic to morphine and codeine so I’m stuck with Tylenol and Naproxen.