Holy Cow~this surgery stuff is just getting to be way more than I want for my sweet hubby! I thought gall bladder surgery was supposed to be pretty easy, but....It was a very rough night! Surgery went well; recovery has been very hard. Until @ 1AM Ron's pain level was consistently a 10 on a scale of 1-10 despite the fact he had been given Demerol in recovery, morphine as soon as he was moved up to his room, Vicodin an hour later, morphine again and finally Demerol & Phenergan at 1AM which knocked him out for a while. He had another dose of Demerol @ 5 and that seems to bring the pain level down to a 5-6.
They feel the amount of pain is due to the aggressiveness of the surgery (so much scar tissue to remove) and the fact that they pump you up with gas when they do surgery laproscopically.
Please continue to pray for his level of pain. We were really thinking this would be an easy solution and he would bounce back much more quickly but, ... what do we know.....???
Our plan is to try to sleep as much as we can today, wait to talk to doctor and go from there....
Thanks again for your prayer support.
Love, Christie
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