Hospital - New Year's Day

New Year's Day I was released to go home. Dr. B came early in the day, this time without his nurse. She must have had the day off. He told me to go see Dr. D with TOC in Huntsville for all my follow-up medical visits. He talked like he had made an effort to talk to Dr. D but he only talked to the nurse. He changed my dressing and that's the last I saw of Dr. B.

Shortly after the doc's visit the hospital staff started preparing me to go home. I called hubby to let him know he needed to get ready to leave to come pick me up. He is on a Volunteer Fire Department and he had a call in the middle of the night so he wasn't so anxious to jump back in the car to drive an hour and a half back down to Birmingham. I knew the hospital couldn't just kick me out but would have to wait until my ride arrived.

So I called my sister to check in on her. She & her son had finished a swim at the hotel pool and were getting ready to come see me again. She wanted to know if I needed anything else. She went to a Wal-Mart and got me another pair of Danskin stretchy, flare legged pants. So now I had two pairs of pants I could wear. She also got me some DVDs to watch when I got back home.

My daytime RN came to get me ready to go home. She had been wonderful the past day. She was chatty, which I didn't mind during the day, attentive, and basically took really good care of me. But this day, since I was going home, she unhooked the morphine pump and proceeded to take it away. When I inquired if she had to take it this soon, that my husband wasn't there yet and wouldn't be there for a while, she didn't explain really well. Well, shortly after that I was going to go to the bathroom. When I put my foot down and all the blood rushed into my foot, it was incredible pain. So I crawled back into bed and just lost it. Then my sister walked in while I was loosing it. I tried to tell her what was going on and all I could sputter through my tears was "She, she, she, took my morphine away". Her poor son must have thought I was nuts and looking back later in the day, we laughed. However, it was not funny at the time. Anyway, we got the nurse back into the room. My sister got onto her a bit and said she didn't explain the situation very well. I felt bad for the nurse. Shortly after though she brought me some pain pills.

When my husband got there, we left to go home. We said goodbye to my sister and I loaded up into the back of his SUV. I laid down with my foot elevated on pillows for the ride back home. We stopped by the pharmacy to get my pain meds and antibiotic pills.