1st day after surgery

John had a rough morning and early afternoon yesterday.
When I arrived in the morning, he was sitting in his chair----- and had been for over 2 hours. He was beyond ready to get back in bed. As I got to his floor, the surgeon saw me and said he was looking for me. John was very nauseated and light headed so they were adjusting his meds some. (I think some of it had to do with the 2 hours in the chair. lol) He also could not use his right leg. When they tried to get him up, he couldn't feel the leg and it gave out on him. That's why he was sitting so long while they tried to figure out what was going on and get other doctors involved, etc.

The called in a neurologist and ordered a cat scan. The surgeon says the nerve wasn't cut, but he thinks it was badly bruised and stretched from moving it during surgery. PT came in to get a baseline to assess the function in that leg. He could feel it from the knee down, but the quadricep area was numb. He couldn't lift it, adduct or abduct it. They wanted a cat scan to make sure it wasn't a blood clot or something.

So, the poor guy had to sit in that chair a long time, then they finally got him back in bed and radiology showed up to take him down for the scan. Once he got back, PT came in. Then the ostomy nurse to work with us, then the regular nurse to do some more stuff, then.............. you get the idea.

He was exhausted and in a lot of discomfort.
By evening he felt much better and was able to rest.
He also had feeling back in the leg by about 4:30 or 5. The neurologist came in and checked it shortly after that. It still wasn't 100% but it was a huge improvement over that morning. Hopefully today it will be even better.

I'll head up there in a little while and hope to hear a good report. His roommate left in the afternoon, so he got a quiet room for the evening. That helped a lot. Today he should have a new roommate. It's a very busy surgical floor.

His color looks great and he is doing amazingly well. I thought he would really be in a lot more pain yesterday. He is in pain, but I guess I just expected a horrible first day out. They want to get him up some, but couldn't with his leg. I guess he'll be walking today if he has full function.

Before I left, he was able to talk to the kids on the phone and even checked his email on his phone. The kids were really glad to hear from him and it made them feel much more secure about daddy getting well.