Health Update.....

[Retired Sarge]

Sunday morning around 0330 I got jolted out of a dead sleep, by the most unforgiving and unrelenting pain I have experienced.

I tried different things to relieve the pain and nothing worked. By 0600 I couldn't stand up straight. Wife was just waking so told her I needed to hit the ER.

It was virtually empty so we were taken back right away. After some x-rays, CT Scans, they discovered i had a perforated intestine (Small Intestine). They had doped me up on pain relievers to get the tests down.

I was brought into an OR room and while laying on the OR table I was signing consent forms to have the procedure done. Told them if they missed anything get with CINC Household she can sign that stuff. By the time I was under and opened up I had air in the abdominal cavity and some bacteria leakage.

I won't be released before Christmas that is sure.

 

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[GirlWithWolf]

Wishing you a speedy recovery, Sergeant. Sorry you’ll be in there Christmas but it is probably the best place to be. Give those nurses the business and make sure they take care of you.

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

Get better soon. Unexpected things always seem to happen around the holidays.

 

[Blackfoot58]

Hopefully the procedure went well and your recovery will be very successful. 🙏🏼

 

[robertk]

That sounds awful. Hopefully recovery is quick and you can go home. Hospitals are awful places to get any rest.

 

[tamrock]

I'll be wishing for your speedy recovery this Christmas morning there Sarge.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Hope for speedy recovery and a Merry Christmas!

 

[smokeythecat]

Praying for you.

 

[pepperj]

Wishing you a speedy recovery of your health.
Merry Christmas to you as well.

 

[jerseydevil523]

Sarge I wish you a speedy recovery and a Merry Christmas from one retired USAF SGT to another.

 

[Retired Sarge]

Update I was evicted from the hospital at around 1830 this evening. Other than the tube up the nose all the way to stomach, it wasn't too bad. Due to other health issues, smoking history etc. My healing process will take a bit longer and can be easily complicated.

Well to be honest if I didn't complicate an easy process it means I'm slacking, and losing touch with my Air Force roots.

Great nursing staff on the floor, and surgical staff was awesome. The doctor that performed my surgery delayed leaving for her families Christmas trip to Disney by a few hours to get me fixed up. Says something about her, as she could have easily passed it off to someone else. Apparently after getting down to Disney, she kept checking in with the hospital for updates on me.

Throw in the fact that due to the hole in the intestine my abdominal cavity was filling with air and bacteria, and there was real concern of peritonitis, which can cause sepsis. So a delay in surgery could have been detrimental to my health.

If I had wrote it off as a weird sciatic nerve issue, medicated it and gone back to bed I wouldn't be typing this today.

So I'm lucky I'm still on this side of the dirt. Now to figure out how to get comfortable on my back and still be able to move without aggravating my incision. My wife is sleeping on the couch, she has put a pass through gate at the door to keep the fur monsters from laying or standing on my incision. They can see me, but can't get to me. But at least they know the fetcher of treats still lives.

 

[ToddsPoint]

Glad you made it! Keep us posted on your recovery.👍🏻

 

[releventchair]

A doctor is a good answer to gut shots.
Dang.

Welcome back!

 

[Mackaydon]

Sarge ,
To your speedy recovery:

Don in SoCal (also USAF back in the day)

 

[djackson7348]

Our prayers for a speedy recovery.

 

[GirlWithWolf]

Well to be honest if I didn't complicate an easy process it means I'm slacking, and losing touch with my Air Force roots.

That sounds a lot like the army.

 

[Retired Sarge]

That sounds a lot like the army.

Who do you think we got it from? Remember back in the olden days we belonged to the Army....

 

[Retired Sarge]

I want to thank everyone for the well wishes, it really means a lot. Proves that even as strangers per se we are still one big family, maybe a bit dysfunctional at times, but still family.

It was scary how quick all this unfolded, and how quick these things can go from bad to worse. But even scarier to think what the outcome would've been if we didn't go to the ER, or I delayed telling her to take me to the ER.

I honestly thought I pulled, pinched, twisted something in my sleep. Wouldn't have been the first time, but something in my head said go to the ER, and rest is history and at least I'm not.

So for the next few weeks I'll be in recovery mode. Recovery mode two words that never sounded as good as they do now.

I'll just add this Christmas, to my list of previous missed ones, along with other holidays, birthdays, anniversaries, firsts, etc.

Again thank you all for the well wishes, they really did mean a lot to me and my family.

To close this out today's ramblings, a quote from the immortal Paul Harvey sounds appropriate ......and now you know the rest of the story!

 

[ConceptualizedNetherlandr]

You wear the badge 'fetcher of treats' the highest honor any pet human can receive from their fury overloads. Would you like that included in your

Epitaph?​

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epitaph

 

[Retired Sarge]

You wear the badge 'fetcher of treats' the highest honor any pet human can receive from their fury overloads. Would you like that included in your

Epitaph?​

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epitaph

I love it and that was funny. It might put some people off, but I've always joked about my health issues as a way of dealing with them....and always remember they say laughter is the best medicine.