So I talked about my surgery in another thread. My last hernia repair was a nightmare from the getgo at the hospital. This time the hospital stay was much better aside from a couple of episode's with ignorant nurses. Even then, my personal care nurses were great. The first problem I had was when only minutes after being brought to my room, i was in so much pain from being transferred from the stretcher to the bed that I had to throw up into the closest thing around which was a wash basin. At the same time, my foot and leg were flared up like above. To make matters worse, a nurse came in and totally disregarded my condition and shoved a needle into my arm while I was throwing up.
I normally have good blood pressure with it being somewhere around 120/75. While in the hospital, it consistently stayed in the 160/100 range. It did come down eventually.
The surgery was supposed to be a simple hernia repair with one main smaller incision over the hernia and two for the cameras. When he got in there he discovered that my entire original incision line from the accident 3 years ago was about to pop into a massive hernia. Change of plans. One HUGE mesh inserted then stitched to the abdominal wall all over. That meant several cut sites all over to get in and sew the mesh to my muscle so it doesn't move. Then staple each cut shut. Some cuts were bigger than others requiring more staples. Lots of swelling also accompanied it. Staples come out friday. In the meantime I'm barely moving around and hurting.