Numb.
There's a lot of numbness in my chest after the surgery. No I don't mean in some weird metaphorical emo way. I mean literally.
It's weird and squicks me out a little. Like, usually, most of the normal surface sensation comes back over time, and I think that I can expect it to. But as of right now I can poke myself and not feel it, and for some reason that really bothers me on a biological reaction level. You know, the same way people may get light headed at the sight of blood even if they don't really have any conscious issue with blood.
Speaking of blood. there are tubes sticking out of my chest to drain extra fluid. Gross right? Haha. I have to empty them out about once a day... They're soooo inconvenient, but preferable to a hematoma... That said, I can't wait until I can get them taken out. That'll be next Friday, so just one more week of this awkward grossness. XD
Anyway, thanks so much everyone that congratulated me and wished me well in my last journal. :D
Yesterday I found out who my suitemates are gonna be in college, so now I'm excited about that. I still haven't gotten my housing information in but someone has and he collected us together over the facebooks.
I got to be in the building I wanted, so I'll have a kitchen and even a DISHWASHER. You know who is excited about having a dishwasher? ME. Because that means that -I- don't have to be the dishwasher. ;)
And I -have- been reading journals. I just haven't been commenting because I'm a lazy ass. Sorry.
I could make some lame excuse for not commenting that involves narcotic drugs and how I've been flipping between "energetic" and "about to pass out" at seemingly random intervals. But I'm not even gonna bother.
Later guys.
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Are you now at home... or are you required to recuperate at hospital?
College arrangements sound absolutely first class! Congratulations... on all that you can look forward to!
I'm at home now.
I spent a single night at the hospital. Usually it's an outpatient procedure but the surgeon I went to thinks it's better to keep her patients overnight just in case something comes up.
Which is fine but I'm so glad to be home. Haha.
Thanks a bunch! :D
Great!
I hope your rehabilitation continues apace.
If it weren't for the tubes...
...and the drugs, you could totally chest-bump like crazy.
But seriously, recover soon!
So, there's no pain in your
So, there's no pain in your chest, just numbness? Huh. I would've thought that it would hurt a lot after the surgery. But what do I know? :P
Anyway, I'm wishing you a full, quick recovery :)
My guess...
... is the drugs are making the pain into numbness. When I had a root canal, they gave me pretty strong drugs, and for a while, I didn't think they were doing much. When I took the last one, it got me totally buzzed, and it was then I realized that when there was pain around, the Vicodin took care of it. When the pain was gone, the Vicodin was just fun. Of course, I found that out on my last Vicodin, so my doctor was a little too good on that dosage.
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That's what I thought. Haha.
That's what I thought. Haha. There is some pain, and my movement is restricted, but it's not nearly and uncomfortable or painful as I expected.
Thanks. :D
Hmm...
So, are your nipples still wired?
Of course, I say that as someone whose nipples don't do anything erogenous, but I know for some people that is a turn on, seemingly every guy I ever picked up, heh.
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Haha. I have zero sensation
Haha. I have zero sensation in my nipples currently. (But they don't seem dead, so I've got that going for me!) It's weird. I really don't care if I have erogenous sensation there though, there are plenty of other erogenous zones on my body. :P I just want surface sensation back.
I did a little investigating, the area that's numb is cut off by the drains... It's hard to describe but, there are drains and the tubing under my skin does a loop in my chest around the nipple area and anything inside of that loop is completely numb to the touch. Like, sensation cuts off right at the drain, so maybe things will change once I get the drains out.
But on the plus side, the drains are doing their job wonderfully. The swelling has gone wayway down already.
I considered that it might've been the meds, but with how specific the numbness is, I doubt it... Then again, I've never been on this kind of pain medicine before, so I could be completely wrong about that. And I mean, I do get some pain in the areas that are generally numb if I'm off of it for a while, so that's a good sign. I'm on Percocet. Heh. Besides pain killing all it's really done is screw with my ability to sleep.
I'm gonna call my surgeon's office tomorrow about the numbness, hopefully they'll have a better idea of what to expect, and hopefully it'll be good news.
But, even if they tell me that sensation might not come back for years/at all, things look great and I'm still way better off than what I started with so it's fine.