Got home from surgery at 1:30 with a 45 minute drive. It is now4:15 pm edlst.
It was a Breeze!!!!
Got there at 7:30 registered sent to a room to get a gown etc... taken into a room and laid on a gurney.
They put an IV in my hand( not a problem at all I have had rose bush thorns hurt a lot more. Took history questions .
Doc came in quickley repeated what he was going to do. He said they sould do a flexible sigmoidoscopy, take out any thing that they may find, perform a closed internal lateral sphincterotomy; he said i would be numbed down there so when i woke up i would feel no pain down there but as the hours wore on i would feel sore there becaus they were going to be using probes , scopes needles and knives down there. he said afterward i would stay at hospital until I could urinate. if i had trouble at home to lie in a warm tub, if that did not work go to the closest ER and get a catheter. I am glad to sy I have urinated 5 times since the surgery. He told me he would givve me something for the pain etc... Anasthseologist came in , likewise told me wha t he wasgoing to do. Prep nurse started meds. , one of which relaxed me quite a bit. My wife was there at that time. a few minutes later a minister friend of ours surprized us and came through the door . we talked for a bit and then prayed . He left. Two OR nurses came in one that works with the anasth. and one that works with the surgeon. They were very nice as was everyone and wheeled me into the operating room. They started an IV and told me I would start to get sleepy I did and then I woke up asking if we had won and waseveryone happy and satisfied. I began to get the sense of having to go to the bathroom ie pass a stool. the nurse said probably not , that it was the manner that the pain began to come on. I felt a need to urinate she allowed me to go to the lavatory iurnated and the feeling largely passed.
The drive home was uneventful . My dear Bride fixed me a1/2 bagel and cream cheese (4 grm fiber), bowl of fruit(strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, blueberries, ) and an allbran bar (5gram) and then took off to the drgstore toget vicodin and allamental cream. he said to take no less than 2 sitz baths or as many as i could.
It is now about 7 hours after the surgery and although I am a bit sore back there I have not gotten any real pain. I took a vicodin at the hospital about 11:30 5.5 hours ago.
I am getting a sense of gas I have passed some gas with soom loose loose stool once in the toilet.
I have not been able to bear to feel back there yet.
All in all I am thrilled.
Fearful of BM and constipation. I have drank 60 ounces of water since the surgery
Any advice or thoughts appreciated !!!
God Bless All!!