That was so easy I'm suspicious
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bunrabSo I had the defibrillator replaced on the 29th, and it was so painless and easy compared to all the other surgeries I've had these last 10 years that I feel like there's another shoe that's gotta drop - something can't possibly go that well without anything going wrong! And yet that seems to be the way it worked. Went over to the hospital at 11, was home again before 4, even counting the extra time we had to wait while they rearranged the operating room because someone had forgotten to tell the setup people that my device is on the right side, not the left. It was, as expected, local anesthesia and a bit of sedation, with the sedation increased for a few minutes when they had to test the device after putting it in - the sedation caused some mild hallucinations which I recognized as such while they were happening: the blue woven-paper coverings and pads that they use to cover areas, block things off, rest tools on, turned into a vast rolling Avatar-like landscape. And of course I chatted all the way through the thing, uncontrollably - but the anesthesiologist says she enjoyed it, and that constant chatting is in fact quite reassuring to them.
I got prescriptions from the EP for antibiotics and a small dose of sedative, because I felt I might need it to get to sleep for a couple of nights sleeping on my back with bandages all over me, and Cindy gave the doctor what-for for not giving us those prescriptions ahead of time, so that they didn't have to be filled with a woozy, aching, whining patient in the car. But as it turned out, by the time we got to the pharmacy, I was already pretty much completely cleared of any aftereffects of the anesthesia, and was feeling downright chipper. And even when the local anesthesia wore off, I felt so little pain that I never used the sedatives, never even needed to use acetaminophen (Tylenol) for pain - there was just a slight ache and then itching. Much itching, because I did retain a lasting sensitivity to adhesives from the 2006 MRSA incident - any kind of bandage or tape at all will leave me with rashes, tiny raised bumps like blisters, and red lines. And I had to keep some of the bandages on for a week, though I was able to take the biggest one off the next day. I whined mightily for that week - but really, other than the adhesives, I did not feel any irritation or pain. By a week later, when we took out the steri-strips and the knots holding the edges of the wound, it was already quite well healed, and I was quite prepared to finally be able to take a shower instead of washing my hair in the sink.
The overall takeaway seems to be that as long as one doesn't have to do anything with the leads, the device itself is really a minor procedure. Every other procedure I've had over the past 10 years has involved the leads, either first placing them when the device was put in, or trying to place the third lead, and those were more serious, more prone to cause complications, required the incision to be open longer which means more pain later, involved general anesthesia which takes days to completely wash out of the system - it may not make me nauseated the way it does for a majority of people, but it certainly has had other effects on me, including that dangerously low blood pressure thing after last fall's surgery.
The expected life of this device is 7 years. So with any kind of luck, I will have no reason to be in a hospital again until 2020.
In other news, I am now officially elected to the condo board, not just appointed, and have already started wielding my immense power - which consists of volunteering to do many, many hours of unpaid work on behalf of the 433 owners who /aren't/ on the board, while enduring complaints from them and hassles from the other new board member who is a nutcase, and an exciteable, shouting nutcase at that. Wonder how long he'll last???
We went to the state fair the weekend after the surgery - and I was fine, although, since this year the scooter rental people weren't there, we didn't get to see much of the fair. In general, I'd have to say that for most ag stuff, the Montgomery County fair was larger and better organized than the state fair - the only place where the state fair has it better, and the reason I wanted to go, was the Home Arts building - many more quilts, knitted things, and needlepoint things at the state fair than there were in Mty Cty. This coming weekend we are going to go to the Great Frederick Fair, which is the name for the Frederick County fair. I've never been to that one, but Frederick is a big agricultural area, just as northern Montgomery county is, so I have high hopes for fancy goats, obscenely-shaped vegetables, and, since it is a month later than the Montgomery one, much, much larger pumpkins. I shall report!
I got prescriptions from the EP for antibiotics and a small dose of sedative, because I felt I might need it to get to sleep for a couple of nights sleeping on my back with bandages all over me, and Cindy gave the doctor what-for for not giving us those prescriptions ahead of time, so that they didn't have to be filled with a woozy, aching, whining patient in the car. But as it turned out, by the time we got to the pharmacy, I was already pretty much completely cleared of any aftereffects of the anesthesia, and was feeling downright chipper. And even when the local anesthesia wore off, I felt so little pain that I never used the sedatives, never even needed to use acetaminophen (Tylenol) for pain - there was just a slight ache and then itching. Much itching, because I did retain a lasting sensitivity to adhesives from the 2006 MRSA incident - any kind of bandage or tape at all will leave me with rashes, tiny raised bumps like blisters, and red lines. And I had to keep some of the bandages on for a week, though I was able to take the biggest one off the next day. I whined mightily for that week - but really, other than the adhesives, I did not feel any irritation or pain. By a week later, when we took out the steri-strips and the knots holding the edges of the wound, it was already quite well healed, and I was quite prepared to finally be able to take a shower instead of washing my hair in the sink.
The overall takeaway seems to be that as long as one doesn't have to do anything with the leads, the device itself is really a minor procedure. Every other procedure I've had over the past 10 years has involved the leads, either first placing them when the device was put in, or trying to place the third lead, and those were more serious, more prone to cause complications, required the incision to be open longer which means more pain later, involved general anesthesia which takes days to completely wash out of the system - it may not make me nauseated the way it does for a majority of people, but it certainly has had other effects on me, including that dangerously low blood pressure thing after last fall's surgery.
The expected life of this device is 7 years. So with any kind of luck, I will have no reason to be in a hospital again until 2020.
In other news, I am now officially elected to the condo board, not just appointed, and have already started wielding my immense power - which consists of volunteering to do many, many hours of unpaid work on behalf of the 433 owners who /aren't/ on the board, while enduring complaints from them and hassles from the other new board member who is a nutcase, and an exciteable, shouting nutcase at that. Wonder how long he'll last???
We went to the state fair the weekend after the surgery - and I was fine, although, since this year the scooter rental people weren't there, we didn't get to see much of the fair. In general, I'd have to say that for most ag stuff, the Montgomery County fair was larger and better organized than the state fair - the only place where the state fair has it better, and the reason I wanted to go, was the Home Arts building - many more quilts, knitted things, and needlepoint things at the state fair than there were in Mty Cty. This coming weekend we are going to go to the Great Frederick Fair, which is the name for the Frederick County fair. I've never been to that one, but Frederick is a big agricultural area, just as northern Montgomery county is, so I have high hopes for fancy goats, obscenely-shaped vegetables, and, since it is a month later than the Montgomery one, much, much larger pumpkins. I shall report!
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Date: 2013-09-11 02:32 am (UTC)Good luck with the condo board.
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