Oh My Aching Head

Well all is well after surgery except these damn headaches which are quite common. Even my Percocet and Relpax pain meds don't touch them. I guess this is normal. I saw the neurosurgeon today and have to have another CAT Scan of my head to see if they left air in there since my headaches are so bad and my vision gets a bit funny at times. That's Thursday. I basically have a doctor appointment every day this week and more of the same next week.

So anyway, they just keep telling me to take my pain meds...the girl I shared with my final night in the hospital would have loved a prescription like that...she was a bit scary and had OD'd in an attempt to kill herself cuz her boyfriend dumped her. She was a pain in the butt and I wish they would have left me in the ICU...looking back the docs agree since I had one of my major headaches while in the room and wasn't treated very promptly for it. They were more than 3 hours late with my evening meds...gee, and they wonder why we get sick in hospitals. So the girl in the next bed was probably 20 or 21 and would punch herself and start whining everytime someone walked in the room in a cheap attempt to get more drugs, sleeping pills and pain meds were her main request. Then she wanted the air conditioning turned off and that's when I got angry because I had tried to be nice and offer her some of my juice I stole from the kitchen...I had to serve myself cuz the nurses would ignore you. So I said I'm not allowed in hot, dry environments because we can dry up and ruin the seal that now leads to my brain from my nose and unless she and the nurse wanted a lawsuit the size of Texas I suggested they leave it on...I got no arguements. Then the guy next door was jumped on at about 3 am so they could get his heart started...they probably forgot his meds too. I'm not sure if he made it since they were in there a very long time and I kept hearing the time yelled out. I felt like I was in an episode of ER.

Oh and the hospital decided I would be a good patient to tech how to change the tubing on your "A" line (a tube they put in your artery to draw blood when you stay in the hospital and have to have it taken more than once every couple of hours). I guess because they called me the favorite patient they thought I wouldn't kill my student nurse. She will a little slow so I shot blood all over myself and my bedding and it hurt like hell. Supposedly it's not that hard. But it wasn't the first time they screwed this up on me, a couple of days before they shot my blood acroos the room in th middle of the night because the nurse failed to hook up the tube for blood colection correctly to my "A" line. And yes, when you have that much blood squirt out it is very hot and sticky. I always thought it was a TV thing. But they complimented me for not passing out and being able to watch the whole event. I watched mainly because it was so painful and I wanted to know exactly what they were screwing up. They wanted to change my IV line as well but after that I told them I needed to rest and the next nurse could do that. She did a much better job.

Okay, my head is starting to swirl again so I'll have me editor proof this and I'll let you know if I am a true "air head" later this week once we get my scan back...