Pain from the Hole of the Donut
Agony.
Pain.
Something feels wrong.
Well, of COURSE it should feel wrong, I just had surgery.
So yesterday I went in for my minor surgery, and for someone of my distinctive metal defects, it was a moment of pure terror.
I hate doctors. I hate hospitals more. Even more than that, I hate the gynecologist.
Let's get one thing straight here, before I go on: I am, unfortunately, a victim of rape. These things happen, and I have moved on, but the lingering shadow will follow me for the rest of my life. Now, a trip to the OBGYN, for me, is me being forced to lay on my back and have some guy I DON'T know fingering around in my junk.
See the parallel my brain draws? It sucks.
And when they tell me that they are going to have to knock me out and cut a HUGE ginormous chucnk from cervix, I start having issues.
Big issues. HUGE. Bigger than ginormous.
Put me to SLEEP? So you can root around in MY SHIT and cut CHUNKS OUT OF ME?!?!?!?
As far as I was concerned, their ass hurt from pulling that idea out of it so fast.
And so then I had my first massive panic attack in about three years, and I mean I LOST it. No sleeping, I was shaking and twitching and freaking out and OH MY GOD THEY WERE GOING TO PUT ME TO SLEEP AND CUT ME.
Yesterday morning, I went into the doc's office and didn't speak. I almost reminded myself of a concentration camp survivor, or a POW just getting let out; head down, eyes staring, all hunched up as I trudged from place to place getting prepped for what could ostensibly be the worst day of my LIFE. When it came time to talk to the anesthesia person, I told them: no SLEEPY. I explained that chemically-induced sleep would give me nightmares and flashbacks and that NO MINOR SURGERY is worth my brain being fucked for at least another six months. No sirree.
SO THEY GAVE ME A SPINAL TAP.
After amking me take out my contacts (so now I'm BLIND), they shot me full of sedative and proceeded to punch a hole in my spine. Pumped full of happy juice even BEFORE the procedure, what do I do?
I fall asleep. Naturally. And wake up an hour after the cutting was done, feeling like an ass because I fell asleep after begging them with tears in my eyes not to make me go to sleep.
I can take comfort in this fact, however: Because I did it of my own free sleepiness due to the fact that I hadn't slept in three days, I didn't have any nightmares. Or flashbacks. Then came the funny part.
My ass was asleep.
Basically, the epidural is a local that knocks out you lower nerve system via the spinal fluid. So I couldn't move my legs. I sat for THREE hours, doing that one scene from Kill Bill:
"Wiggle your big toe."
At this point the hub-unit was in there with me in the recovery room, and he was laughing his ass off. I was somewhat amused also, unitl they told me that I couldn't leave until I was able to stand and pivot on my own, and after I had peed.
Because they had given me two IV bags full of liquid, and I hadn't peed. They were freaking out about a distended bladder or some such baloney.
Please let me go home it's cold and it's sterile and I can't feel my ANYTHING and I just want some chicken an stars soup and a bagel with cream cheese and my husband please please please LET ME GO HOME.
They finally conceded defeat and let me leave while my ass and heels were still numb (try sitting with a numb ass. I DARE YOU), because apparently they are attached to the same nerve cluster or something. Makes you wonder, doesn't it? But I digress. They let me go home under the promise that if I didn't pee by three PM, I had to come back in and get a catheter. We left a one PM. I had been there since seven thirty AM.
I won't get into my fear of catheters, because that's a whole nother thing that I shouldn't write about, but I wanted to get home and pee. Have you ever tried to pee with a numb ass? It feels like you're sitting on the world's warmest jello mold and you actually slide all over the place trying to find your ass even though you're sitting on it. It's a very strange, very MEMORABLE situation.
SO I went home. I took a vicodin (bless the doc for that at least), and started drinking shitloads of liquid. If my bladder had been distended, that was probably not the smartest idea. However, the loomning ickyness of a catheter was foremost in my mind.
I've already typed enough. Suffice to say, I finally peed without help of a catheter, I took my pills like a good little smurf, and now I'm sitting here with a HUGE puncture mark in my spine and a bellyful of cramps that just won't go away, barely.
For all that, I hope to god that they found something of interest. Because right now, I'm still shaking.
Rattled Out By Queenie
at 8:51 AM