4 days post op

Yesterday and today has been difficult. Last night I ended up going to the out of hours gp due to the pain I was in. When she saw my face she just said ‘you poor thing’. Anyway To cut it short I ended up leaving with some anti sickness tablets and instructions to increase my oramorph from 5mls 3x a day to 10mls 4x a day. Having that extra dose of pain relief really helped as I was able to get some sleep last night and the higher dose has helped today with just getting some rest and sleeping on and off all afternoon.

The pain is by no means gone completely with the pain relief but I think it is as much as I can hope for. Considering the procedure and the amount they had to mess around with in the joint I’m bound to have swelling and pain. Last night and this morning it did look like I had been in a fight but with me listening to the advice given to just rest the swelling has reduced a bit this evening.

For tea I have had angel delight, antibiotics and an anti sickness tablet. Chewing my lunch was enough chewing for today (soft vegetables and a couple of Yorkshire puddings) I still have 1 more dose of antibiotics to take tonight and another dose of both cocodamol and oramorph which I am trying to save until just before bed so I can have a good few hours sleep.

Yesterday I had an appointment in the evening for some tests and as we were walking out I heard my name being shouted. It was my surgeon. We had a mini consultation in the corridor where he asked how I was post op and he told me he had looked at the x-rays I had after the operation and it is now all completely smooth so surgery has been successful, it is now impossible for me to dislocate again.

I’m now going to prop myself up in bed and watch a film, if I drift off to sleep whilst watching it, it doesn’t really matter. The benefit of having Netflix means I can just pick it up where I left off and watch the rest if I do drop off to sleep.

This is how bad the swelling got last night and this morning. One eye I was struggling to see anything out of. I still wouldn’t have done anything differently and not had the surgery though. This operation was life changing in a good way.