First time I've had surgery since I was 2. I went in on Wednesday (my 35th birthday) and my surgery was cancelled because of an emergency case which took my surgeon from me. After that operation had been going for 7 hours they made the decision that when he was finished he'd be too tired to then do mine and so for safety reasons it'd have to be cancelled. Went back in yesterday (Friday) and got the surgery. All I remember is been wheeled in, the cannula hurt going in and took them a couple of attempts, I guess since I was a bit dehydrated due to the whole nil by mouth thing. They gave me a sedative, which I didn't actually enjoy, put the mask on, told me to take deep breaths and that's my last memory until I woke up in recovery coughing my lungs up. Leg hurt like a (*)(*)(*)(*)(*) and it took quite a few morphine shots to bring the pain under control. I felt pretty dizzy for a couple of hours after I woke up. One of the worst things was that I couldn't pee as hard as I tried at first. Told the nurse and she said if I failed to pee the next time I tried it would be time for a catheter. I peed the next time, believe me. Got pumped, absolutely pumped, full of antibiotics. Apparently that part of the leg gets really poor blood supply and so is prone to infection. Now I gotta make sure I don't put any weight on the leg and I go to get it checked out in 2 weeks. 1 month down, possibly over 6 months to go.
Wow- sounds rough. Hope your recovery goes well- I assume you will be having physical therapy? How did you injure you tendon? Best of luck down there.
Yeah, there will be physio at some stage. I'm in a paintball comp and in the final I fell and ruptured the Achilles.
That sounds like a nightmare. That's one part of the body I'm always worried about injuring because I've heard that you don't actually bounce back from it at all. I wish you a speedy recovering though.
