After Surgery

So I’m home from surgery.

We got to the surgery center before 7:30.  Process was pretty smooth — they have been doing it awhile and most of the surgerys were for lapband.

I didn’t actually get operated on until 9:30, maybe later.  There were lots of things to do before hand.  Some was to do paperwork that was done over the phone.  Most of it was waiting.

Apparently the IV came out of my hand in the recovery room.

Insulin pump worked fine.  Here’s what I ended up doing:

Check blood sugar and was lower than I liked around 1:00 am so switched to surgery basal, which was 50% of my normal basal.

At 6:00 am I was still low, so switched to temp basal of -50.  At that point, I was doing 1/4 of the normal amount of insulin I do.

At 9:00 am I was at 135 but kept things at the same rate.  I just let my 4 hour basal temp run out.

I had four waves of naseau from the surgery so far.  Weird, because the right side of my body just feels like I need to toss cookies bad, but I don’t, which turns in a cough that makes me urinate, then turns into a sharp pain that goes away.  Fun.  Two at the surgery center, one in the car which wasn’t bad, and one at the house.

I’ve got liquid pain medication and liquid anti-naseau medication.

I have a REALLY REALLY sore throat and can’t talk as a result.  I’ve done about 5 popsicles that helped, but I decided that doing too many of those weren’t a good idea as they do have some sugar and calories.

At 3:00 my blood sugar was just around 200 so I’m working on bring it down.

I’ve had a few moments of doubt — one when we were waiting for the surgery and one on the way home from  surgery but it’s a bit too late now to change my mind.

I weighed 308 at the surgery center and I am doing just under 60 units of insulin.