{"id":159,"date":"2018-06-11T23:39:53","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T23:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lp21.uk\/?page_id=159"},"modified":"2018-07-20T16:53:25","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T16:53:25","slug":"bka-surgery-day","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lp21.uk\/?page_id=159","title":{"rendered":"BKA Surgery Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

30th April 2014<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Obviously, I was feeling very worried about the surgery, I had asked for an early admission to hospital even though my surgery was not due until later in the day. (I’d rather be in the hospital worrying than at home)<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I went to hospital by taxi alone (my choice, I’d rather be at hospital alone worrying rather than having lots of others around me) and was admitted at 10:30am, now I was committed to having the surgery, I had decided if I got this far, there was no turning back.<\/span><\/p>\n

Prior to surgery, I asked to be weighed, I was 93kg. I was curious to know how good this extreme weight loss program was!<\/span><\/p>\n

I was put to sleep at 6:30pm it had been a long day.<\/span><\/p>\n

On waking from surgery I was in significant pain. Although I was on <\/span>Morphine<\/a> from the operation using a PCA pump, the pain was so bad, I was also given <\/span>Ketamine<\/a>\u00a0while in the recovery room. I remember seeing the clock in the recovery room and it said 9:30, however I was told that the op took about 2 hours.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Ketamine helped and I fell asleep, although I had a bad night. I kept waking up, not always because of pain, I think it was just the enormity of the day. At some stage during the night I was put back onto oxygen as my <\/span>SpO2<\/a> readings were low.<\/span><\/p>\n

The operation took longer than anticipated because the blood flow to my limb was better than expected so the surgeon had to move at a much slower pace to avoid too much blood loss, this involved working with each nerve\/vein\/blood vessel or whatever it is individually, instead of a quick chop through the lot. This can only be a good thing to aid recovery. I was told afterwards that I only lost about 400ml of blood during the operation.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

30th April 2014 Obviously, I was feeling very worried about the surgery, I had asked for an early admission to hospital even though my surgery was not due until later in the day. (I’d rather be in the hospital worrying than at home) I went to hospital by taxi alone (my choice, I’d rather be … <\/p>\n

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