I'm finally starting to feel better!

Hello! I am doing so much better now as you can see above, but I wanted to update everyone, especially my Facebook friends who saw I had to go back to the hospital after my surgery because of some complications

Namely, pain. Horrible pain that started and just wouldn't stop, when the most intense pain from surgery really should have been stopping by then. Every time the Oxy would wear off the pain would become unbearable and the rest of the time it was barely manageable. I have a very good friend who is a nurse that I talked to and she and my wonderful wife convinced me to go in to the ER.

When I got to the ER I was covered in sweat and chills and it was -4 degrees outside. I didn't have a fever either, it was purely from PAIN that would come over me in waves and made me feel spikes that hurt from my toes to my teeth! Ugh I could not handle when my teeth would hurt.

When they hooked me up to the monitor they could see my heart rate spike on top of the chills and sweat they were already concerned about, so they gave me morphine right away. It only took an hour before it started to wear off and they had to give me more because my heart rate headed back up and the chills and sweat started again. It was awful.

To make a long story short they did bloodwork, a CT scan, and a bit of an overall exam of my surgery sites. I did have a bit of an infection, so they gave me an antibiotic but said there was nothing majorly wrong that could account for the amount of pain I was in so they scheduled a follow up visit with my surgeon's office a couple days later and gave me more Oxy/antibiotics/muscle relaxers and stuff on my way out.

When I finally met with my surgeon's office it was pure relief to get help from them. They did a very thorough exam along with going over their notes, the CT scan, and every single symptom I had and in the end diagnosed me with an uncommon issue that sometimes happens with people who have chronic pain. (I was in a car accident as a teenager and have been disabled since, with pain I live with every day.)

Anyway they said because I'm already in pain, and there is pain from so many new places in such an intense amount my body started interpreting every bit of pain MUCH more intensely than it should. During the exam she touched me with a q-tip in one of the offending pain areas and I wanted to jump off the table... which obviously shouldn't happen with nothing "wrong."

She was a wonderful doctor and was able to give me another muscle relaxer, she tripled the dose of my normal nerve blockers and instead of twice a day is having me take them 3 times a day, along with my regular very strong muscle relaxer I already take 3 times a day. She said that with luck it should calm down in 72 hours.

It's 72 hours later and whew do those meds make me pass out hard. I've been sleeping most of the last 3 days, but when I am awake the pain is becoming more and more manageable and I am feeling more and more like myself finally!

TY so much to everyone for the thoughts/prayers/love/energy sent my way. I love you all and am so grateful to have such a bad ass team on my side. Here is to being on the other side of the healing hump, I should be feeling much better soon!