DD had her surgery on Monday afternoon, was home at miday yesterday, and is recovering well. Certainly not as good as your DD Kazzo. DD is having a bit of trouble keeping up with the 1.5L of fluid they want her to have. She's in a bit of pain - plus she was having trouble with the 'Oxynorm' that they are giving her, it actually seems to make it worse, she gets nauseas and dizzy and she will not eat in the 3-4 hours after taking it, and since she takes it every 6 hours it only leaves a 2 hour window every 6 hours to get food and drink into her (but the dr just rang a minute ago and said he is fine for us to take her off it if it's not helping). The Oxynorm made for really hard nights the last two nights, but almost 48 hours from surgery and she is ok. Handled the anaesthetic well (but they gave her a shot of pethidine which knocked her around a bit) and was not scared at all going in to theatre.
She is certainly living a kids dream right now though, I've done three rush trips out to buy whatever she will eat, just to get her to eat - yesterday it ws Yogo, last night it was nuggets and a milkshakefrom McDonalds, and this morning (after refusing food and drink for 12 hours ) it was a donut with pink icing and a sausage roll. I just want her to eat although I think the Oxynorm was working against us. We'll see. She's 'due' for the Oxynorm at midday, it'll be interesting to see if she goes alright without the extra pain relief, although as I said, the side effects seemed to add to the pain so I don't think it was actually helping!
It must be a big relief to have it over and done with. I am happy to hear she did not get scared. I hope she starts feeling much better. Did they tell you about day 7-8 set back. It was true for us.We had two nights of very restless sleeping and DD not wanting to eat anything but gerkins (Last thing I thought she would want considering the acidity).But she has not had any panadol since last Wednesday night and is completelky back to normal.
I was only told to give panadol after hospital, DD1 is 3 but they said give her the 5-12year old panadol. I did alternate with nurofen though. Could you just try that instead of the Oxynorm and see if she handles it better.
Mmmm, I could go a macdonalds thickshake now. Our dash out for DD was hot chippies and a fishcake.
Maybe try Painstop if she still needs the extra relief. No point giving her something that's only making her feel worse.
Or just alternate panadol & nurofen 3 hourly, so they over lap, but there are 6 hours between doses of each.
Glad she handled the GA well. My DD didn't. She woke from surgery instantly & screaming. She remembers everything right up til she went under. Even now, 5 years later.
Interesting. Funny how different doctors are with what they prescribe. I was only told none 2 for two weeks prior. So could you still use panadol since it is paracetemol?
We have been alternating Oxynorm at 6am, 12MD, 6pm, 12MN with paracetamol at 3am, 9am, 3pm, 9pm. Dr said to just give the paracetamol (we use Dymadon not Panadol but it's the same thing) and she's due now for the Oxynorm and seems to be fine so far. It is interesting, the nurse at the Royal Brisbane Children's Hospital where the procedure was done made it really really explicitly clear that she was to have absolutely no ibuprofen or aspirin.
oh yes, no aspirin or ibuprofen after surgery! as you probably remember, my Jacob had quite a bad bleed 2 weeks after his surgery, can't imagine how much worse it would've been... (if using blood thinning meds!)
so glad Jaz seems to have handled it well
J was only on dymadon, the docs wouldn't give him anything stronger because of the apnoea and the risk of it affecting his breathing, they were even really worried about putting him under to begin with.
Can you talk to the nurse/doctors about giving Jaz something like the painstop (like clover suggested) or something that wont affect her so badly?
The eating and drinking thing is really quite beneficial to their recovery, the more "scratchy" type foods they eat the better the wounds heal (sloughs off the scabs, so they can heal up, if the scabs build up they come off in one big clump and then you get bleeding...)
Last edited by STARRYSKY; September 19th, 2012 at 12:03 PM.
) it was a donut with pink icing and a sausage roll. I just want her to eat although I think the Oxynorm was working against us. We'll see. She's 'due' for the Oxynorm at midday, it'll be interesting to see if she goes alright without the extra pain relief, although as I said, the side effects seemed to add to the pain so I don't think it was actually helping!
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