I'm sorry I didn't post anything The last couple of days. By the time the days were over I was just too tired to do anything but TRY to go to sleep, which never happened. Didn't happen the night before either. Or the night before. So now I'm on a shoestring of a nerve.
Lorne has been incredibly sick since the surgery, so much so that he could not get out of bed. The first couple of days we chalked it up to the sedation and the fact that the surgery ended up being so much more extensive than planned. But as the days wore on it became apparent that it was more than that. And today we think they have figured it out. One of the antibiotics they were giving him post-surgery causes major nausea as a side effect. He has been receiving an anti-nausea medication but it apparently does not work on him. So they switched to Zofran, which is what he has always taken to control his nausea during chemo cycles, and within 15 - 20 minutes he was up and walking!
The problem though is that because he hasn't been up and walking enough since the surgery, his body is still trying to get rid of all the fluids that have been pooling up while he was lying down. He was just too nauseous to get up and do the walking they wanted him to do. I am getting him some scrambled eggs for dinner tonight which will be the first solid food he has had since last Thursday, prior to the surgery. He has no fever, his bloodwork is good, and his vitals are perfect so there is no sign of any infection, and if we can just keep the nausea under control he can do the work to get back to normal as soon as possible. He misses work but to be honest, these last few days, I doubt it's crossed his mind, he's just been so out of it. After he got the dose of Zofran, he was making little jokes and had a light in his eyes again. It was really quite amazing. It was like night and day in a span of a few minutes. So now they have him on a Zofran regimen to keep it under control. He says he can manage the pain ok, but the combination of pain and nausea is just too much.
Lorne has been incredibly sick since the surgery, so much so that he could not get out of bed. The first couple of days we chalked it up to the sedation and the fact that the surgery ended up being so much more extensive than planned. But as the days wore on it became apparent that it was more than that. And today we think they have figured it out. One of the antibiotics they were giving him post-surgery causes major nausea as a side effect. He has been receiving an anti-nausea medication but it apparently does not work on him. So they switched to Zofran, which is what he has always taken to control his nausea during chemo cycles, and within 15 - 20 minutes he was up and walking!
The problem though is that because he hasn't been up and walking enough since the surgery, his body is still trying to get rid of all the fluids that have been pooling up while he was lying down. He was just too nauseous to get up and do the walking they wanted him to do. I am getting him some scrambled eggs for dinner tonight which will be the first solid food he has had since last Thursday, prior to the surgery. He has no fever, his bloodwork is good, and his vitals are perfect so there is no sign of any infection, and if we can just keep the nausea under control he can do the work to get back to normal as soon as possible. He misses work but to be honest, these last few days, I doubt it's crossed his mind, he's just been so out of it. After he got the dose of Zofran, he was making little jokes and had a light in his eyes again. It was really quite amazing. It was like night and day in a span of a few minutes. So now they have him on a Zofran regimen to keep it under control. He says he can manage the pain ok, but the combination of pain and nausea is just too much.