Gall Bladder Surgery

So yesterday was the big day... Bye bye gall bladder! It was an out patient surgery and I didn't have to be at the surgery center until noon... By which time I was STARVING! Upon arrival at the center I checked in and then a nurse took me back to get me prepped for surgery. She gave me a hospital gown, booties and a hair net and told me to strip down to my birthday suit. After changing and hopping into the hospital bed she brought me warm blankets and started my IV and monitors. Then hubby was allowed to come back and sit with me until go time. The anesthesiologist came and talked to us and told us what to expect. Then it was surgery time. Hubby was sent back to the waiting room. I was given a medicine to ease the nerves and then wheeled back to the operating room. I don't remember much after that. They put a mask on me and I was down for the count. I awoke in recovery with a nurse at my side to aid in my pain control... It HURT! After my pain was in check I was put into a rolling chair and wheeled to a different recovery room where my hubby was brought to. The nurse brought me a diet coke, some saltine crackers and a hydrocodone. Yay for pain meds! We weren't in recovery too long before I was told I could get dressed and leave! I was sorta shocked at how fast they discharged me.... Then again it was 3 o'clock and a Friday! We went and picked the girls up from a friends house... Who was so gracious to watch our kiddos twice this week during my endoscopy and then again for surgery. From there we headed home and I got settled in while the hubby went to get my pain med Rx filled. I was really starving by now... since I hadn't eaten since the night before but every time I tried to eat it made me nauseous! I drank lots of water... I guess from the anesthesia it made me really thirsty... I couldn't get enough. I took my pain medicine when it was time and I tried to walk to get rid of the gas they fill you with. It wasn't working... I was in SO much pain... All I could do was cry. Finally hubby called the doctor and I called my mom... Its amazing I'm 30 years old and have 3 babies of my own but when I am in pain or really sick... I still want my Momma! The doctor said the pain was from the gas build up... The excruciating part of my pain wasn't "normal" per say... But that is what was causing it. My doctor told my hubby to wait and hour and then to take 2 more pain pills. I curled up into a ball (which seemed to be the most comfortable position) and waited. After being able to belch some of the gas out and take more meds I finally started to feel slightly better... and I do mean slightly! I knew when I set up my surgery that the hubby would be working this weekend (yes... stupid on my part) but I thought no big deal... The doctor and everyone I knew who had had the surgery made it seem like no big deal... Let me tell you... Its a BIG deal! I've had 3 babies and this pain didn't compare to labor at all! Hubby went off to bed and I tried to get comfortable and watch TV. After the second set of pain meds I got sick. Then I was starving...Again! So I made soup and praise the Lord I was able to keep it down. I went to bed at about 11 and woke up every hour in pain. When the hubby got up for work at 330 I wasn't able to go back to sleep... So I got up. Here it is 6 am 15 hours post op and I defiantly feel like I've had surgery! Lesson learned... No matter how "small" your told something will be... Prepare for it not to be. I thought because everyone kept saying how much better Id feel when it was out, how it was out patient surgery, there would only be one incision through my belly button... That it wouldn't be a "big" deal... And maybe for some people its not, for me it has been a HUGE deal and Ive been through the ringer so far... Hopefully as the weekend progresses it will be less painful and the feeling better part will start!