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my surgery *** ..i don't want people thinking this will happen to them.

Mon, October 24, 2016 4:28 AM

Hi when I was coming upto my 21st birthday my crohns got really bad I went back in hospital this time they had no choice but to operate. They decided they was gonna do keyhole surgery but that didn't go to plan when I was in recovery something split open inside me and I had blood poisoning (peritonitis) that was the worse pain I have been in ever. They rushed me back into surgery the next morning and cut me up and solved the problem sort of... I woke up in intensive care tubes everywhere one in my nose 3 drains on my left side 3 drains on my right a colonoscopy bag a catheter and a stocked morphine drip into my neck. From then on I was getting worse and worse I was nearly on deaths door.. I went to hdu unit I think they call it then a week in there they moved me to another ward they came to take my nose drip thing out which was collected bile and once they did I couldn't stop been sick so had to put it back in!! The same night I must of caught my catheter and it pulled and came out abit that's painful if your a man lol I don't what the woman's one is like.. well a week or so had passed I was always pleading with the surgeons to get me out for Xmas day as I love Xmas. So the day before Xmas eve the surgeon said I can go home tomorrow I was really happy 😀 So the next day Xmas eve I got up really early I waddled to the bathroom because I couldn't really walk as they left my wound open on my stomach it was hard to walk I stood in the toilet trying to wee when all of a sudden I couldn't see in front of me I fell to the ground it was like when you see stars when you get up too fast. I tried shouting a nurse couldn't hear me so I could just reach up for the cord. She came in got me in a wheelchair took me back to my bed and the surgeon came up and had a look at me and he said I had got MRSA and you could see on my open wound that it was green it had eaten my belly button away. So that was my Xmas knackered 😞

jonnyoldfield
Joined Oct 24, 2016

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