Me foot - and a question for the medically-edumacated

[Daise]

Firstly the question - is it usual for someone to have blood in their nasal passage after surgery? Or would it have to do with low blood pressure?

Anyhoo, here's some piccies. Hopefully will get some when the doc takes the plaster off next Wed.

The operation involved taking a bone graft from just above my ankle and inserting with a screw on my foot. Lots of ouchies

I fall asleep in the theatre, and wake up with this 5 hours later:


Day 4 swelling and bruising (it's made a 6 year old scar look awesome!):


Here it is moments before getting the stitches out:

[lee]

so when can we start drawing stuff on your cast?

[Daise]

i think i'm getting a new one next wed, and it's gonna get pinkified again

[Swampy]

so has the doc been looking after you???

what hospital did you go to???

how is it all going so far????

i was lucky to have been able to walk out with no crutches after my op a year ago....

but i had a blood nose big time in recovery.......

i have had that happen twice now, last year for my ankle op and also when i ahd my wisdom teeth out....

everytime i sat up i got a nose bleed.. took longer to discharge me thats for sure....

[Dr Evil]

Firstly the question - is it usual for someone to have blood in their nasal passage after surgery? Or would it have to do with low blood pressure?
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Minor trauma after intubation/LMA, when they put you to sleep they have to keep your airway open, so they put a little pipe down your throat, sometimes causes a bit of bleeding. Just as you are waking up they pull the tube out, no one remembers the tube at all (they some good drugs) The little bit of blood cant go past the pipe because it has a cuff around it so may trickle into nose. Nothing to worry about.

[lee]

take pics of hot nurses for <strike>me</strike> us pls?

[Daise]

so has the doc been looking after you???[/b]

Exceptional service. Except giving me two weeks off work - I&#39;m going INSANE. Good to know the same person is looking after me before, during and after surgery. THANKYOU SO MUCH FOR REFERRING ME!!

what hospital did you go to???[/b]

Mount Hospital - it&#39;s like a fricken hotel!

how is it all going so far????[/b]

Good days and bad days (like today). Blood pressure is low, and I&#39;m missing my pethadine How do I get my BP up?

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was lucky to have been able to walk out with no crutches after my op a year ago....[/b]

Crutches suck. Drains my energy Last year I was lucky to be able to walk with the cast, no such luck this time...

but i had a blood nose big time in recovery.......

i have had that happen twice now, last year for my ankle op and also when i ahd my wisdom teeth out....

everytime i sat up i got a nose bleed.. took longer to discharge me thats for sure....[/b]

Yeah, the blood nose freaked me out a bit.

take pics of hot nurses for <strike>me</strike> us pls?
[/b]

Most of mine were male.... still want pics?

[Munky_Buns]

Atleast you remembered to shave your legs and paint your nails

[kellz]

increase bp by increasing circulating volume..
just drink more fluids.. you may be drinking enough but becaus eyou ahev has trauma more blood if flowing to that area to heal it so u reauire a bit more than usual...

are you getting it measured daily??

how do u know your blood pressure is down??

just asking as if its just dizzyness that can be caused by an aray of things, such as low sugar, pain, etc

glad its all going good..


just spent a week on an ortho ward looking after simlar surgeries and watch 3 of them..

[Daise]

just spent a week on an ortho ward looking after simlar surgeries and watch 3 of them..
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wanna hold my hand when they change the plaster and poke at the stitches on wednesday?

[Swampy]

Minor trauma after intubation/LMA, when they put you to sleep they have to keep your airway open, so they put a little pipe down your throat, sometimes causes a bit of bleeding. Just as you are waking up they pull the tube out, no one remembers the tube at all (they some good drugs) The little bit of blood cant go past the pipe because it has a cuff around it so may trickle into nose. Nothing to worry about.
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i remember the tube being taken out of my throat when i had my operation to remove the screw from my knee back in 96.

i was put to sleep with the gas as the doc was having a had time finding a vein, so they gave me the gas..... never again. I was fully awake in recovery, chatting to fellow workers, ( as i had it done at the hospital i was workign at). I was coming through when they took the tube out, and remember the whole thing..... not a good feeling at all.....

glad things are going ok daise... and yes the mount is like a hotel..... thats where i had my ankle done....

[kellz]

wanna hold my hand when they change the plaster and poke at the stitches on wednesday?
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hell yeh.. lol just tell me when and where...

[Desmo]

increase bp by increasing circulating volume..
just drink more fluids.. you may be drinking enough but becaus eyou ahev has trauma more blood if flowing to that area to heal it so u reauire a bit more than usual...
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Drunk post!

[Daise]

updated!