Thank you the surgery went very well, I can still have kids, long story I was pregnant, the doctors found an enormous ovarian cyst. I miscarried & now I'm having the cyst removed from my remaining ovary. I went thru the same thing when I was pregnant with Rhi & had to have emergency surgery at 21 weeks, where they removed another massive cyst & my left ovary & tube. This is extremely rare, so to be going thru this again is crazy. It's been extremely difficult time I was laid off in July so trying to get on Medicaid took forever & no one will see you when you don't have health insurance. So I had absolutely no pre natal care for this pregnancy. When I was finally accepted on Medicaid by then it was to late. The day after surgery was a nightmare as I will let you read per Paul
Paul Kuhr I had no intentions on posting this publicly, but Arline has asked that I do, for the benefit of our friends who want to be updated
Today was absolutely the most terrifying day I have every experienced. When I arrived at the hospital in the AM to sit with Arline, she was in a deep sleep. I didn't want to wake her, and let her sleep soundly, and just watched her for 30 minutes. She looked liked she would wince in pain with each deep breath, which I assumed was the surgery pain. A nurse came in and asked if she was sleeping the entire time I was there. I said "Yes" and the nurse said she was going to wake her to give her medication. This is when things get unreal. The nurse tried to wake her, and nothing. She shook her harder, calling out her name
Nothing. She opened her eye lids for her, and slapped her repeatedly, and Arline would not wake up. At this moment, the nurse ran from the room to get help, and within 20 seconds, the room was swarmed with 15 people, and 10 more in the hallway. When the flattened her out, her breathing stopped, and they immediately started CPR on her. Rapid chest compression, and pumping oxygen, trying to revive her. I was in complete terror.
It turns out, and amazingly the hospital cannot tell me exactly HOW this happened, but apparently Arline had an overdose of morphine administered by the hospital. They tried to tell me it was just a reaction her body had to it. I'm not buying that. They orally medicated her at 6 AM, and were supposed to remove the pump. They never did remove the pump, so it put her in what was basically a morphine coma. After CPR to speed up her heart rate, and some IV injections of a morphine counter agent, she finally came around. It took the better part of the day for the remaining morphine to leave her system, and her memory slowly came back.
I can't describe the feeling of watching your spouse in that situation, other then pure horror. I can honestly say, I have never been that scared in my life.
At the moment, she's good, and alert, and hopefully that i completely behind us. At this point, I just want to get her home.
