George is home sweet home now, bruising has settled down now !!

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Hi guy's.
Dr came to see me again this morning. He mentioned that I might be able to go home on Monday. He also said that I had a low blood count as I lost around 150ml of blood during the surgery but that I will be ok. They have removed the drip and taken the morphine away as of this morning. I am still very sore due to the hiatus hernia repair that he did.

I have developed a lot of bruising on the side of my body. . Has anyone has similar thing happen to them ?? I was operated on Tuesday and had no bruising until Friday !!! This just showed up out of nowhere... They are applying a cream on there twice a day which is doing nothing.

I am still sore and now getting tablets for pain which seem to be making me much more relaxed than the morphine.

Here is the photo.

Anyone heard how George is today? With his bruises, etc?

Havent seen a post for a while so thought I would see if anyone has seen/ heard from him?

Nat

xoxoxoxo

Hey Sue, the Dr thinks, yes I said thinks that it is from the blood thinning injections. He also "thinks" that it's from all pulling and shoving. He did say that my blood count is up and i am going to be without the bruises soon.
My wife wont let me out of here until we know why..........

Lets see what happens in the morning :)

So mate have you got some answers ??? I would be wanting answers before i went home to

cheers Sue

So mate have you got some answers ??? I would be wanting answers before i went home to

cheers Sue

I think you are correct !!

I don't think you had surgery, you were really hit by a really large truck.

It finally made a bit of sense when you said you had blood thinning TABLETS. I had bruising but I had heparin injections and so had bruises mostly where they were injected. Because you are ingesting them it might have a different effect on where the bruises appear. But it is normal.

You win tho I reakon for the most impressive bruise. Maybe we should start a new competition. LOL

Hi George...
3 sides???
You're sure going out of your way to be impressive here, ain'cha??
You're prolly right with the heparin too....
Yep. Make sure you're confident in the knowledge that it's OK before you leave. Nothing worse than unnecessary stress!

PS
On taking future pix, make sure you still have colour co-ordinated Bond's on!!

Thanks Nat. There is no way my wife will let me out of here until there are answers, so I think today is the day I will get some answers ! hahah

My wife is just s bit worried!

The photos were taken yesterday Daisy,I think the bruises are worse today

Yeah Im hoping that its not painful.

Did they check anything to make sure its not internal pooling of blood or anything?

Hope all is ok xoxoxoxo

Nat

OMG George You sure have some brusies
I winced when l looked at them. I just hope they dont hurt as much as they look like they would.
I hope they stop spreading soon and start fading.

Daisy

Hi Sue, I did finally get some sleep last night. I turned the laptop off and slept !

Dr says that the blood thinning tablets might be behind it. I am hoping that he tells me that I can go home today

Here are the latest pics

I never had any bruising so it will be interesting to hear wat your doc says
Hope you got some sleep

hugs sue

I'll post more pics later as the bruising has spread more

Thanks RG

Email sent

Hey George
My surgeon saw mine before I left hospital and told me there was nothing to worry about. In fact, it was pointed out to him by a few of the nurses too! He STILL said there was nothing to worry about!
He was right.
There was nothing to worry about.
Like I said, mine kept enlarging for about 10 days.
If you like, pm me your email addy and I'll send you the amended photo so you can see what I'm talking about!
RG

Thanks CarrieK. I feel reassured after reading your post. Once the Dr see's me, I will post what he tells me. Being a Sunday I dont think he is coming to turn up today

Hi George,

It will be really interesting to hear what causes it. Mine started near the area where my drain was removed about 3 days post op. It kept growing (till it covered most of my front and left side) for about a week after I was discharged, then ever so slowly faded away. I don't remember any pain with it at all though and, as I had passed my leak test, wasn't too worried. I didn't realise, till you started this thread, that it didn't happen to everyone, LOL.

I hope you get lots of answers from your Doc and look forward to hearing all the why's and wherefore's.

Cheers - Carrie

Good morning everyone, well the bruising has now spread to the other side and near the key holes. I am going to see the Dr about it now because It is getting worse. 5 days after surgery and more bruising seems weird.

Thanks Anna ,Raingold, Janette, DancingOnTheInside and sssss,

I am not too concerned because I feel that the Dr would of been freaking out if there was a problem and he really didnt seemed fussed at all. He did mention that I lost around 150mm of blood during the surgery and something about low blood cells......I am cool, diabetes under control, life is good and will get better and better from here :)

I wish you all the best & raingold, YOU ROCK !!!!

George

Hi George...
How cool are you?
We could have almost been twins!!
Seriously!
My bruise was the same side but didn't quite go around and under my back and not quite down as far as yours either. It was higher up around the actual stab site. And it grew every day for about 10 days.
Mine looked like a huge pacman! rofl.
With me, that was also the same stab site that was leaking quite a lot, so I presume that there was blood pooling inside which then had to make it's way to the surface, hence the bruising.
Spectacular, isn't it?
Wait till it does the discolouration and goes blue and green and purple and black and all that stuff!! rofl.
Mine didn't hurt much at all, and despite massaging, faded away all by itself over a period of weeks.
Actually, truth be told, if I look real hard, I can still see a very vague outline.... or is it my memory? I dunno...
I did get a photo taken of it , but haven't posted it .... yet....
It'll be right. It'll go away.



RG

Hi George,

WOW that is one wicked bruise!!!!!!!!

Hope your feeling better soon, and congrats on your surgery.................... it sounds sillly congratulating someone for having surgery, but on here its the norm.

Im still waiting to be sleeved, hopefully June, so not long to go.

You take care and stay in hospital as long as you need to, you had 2 ops dont forget.

Bye for now
Anna

Wow!! Now thats a bruise!

Wow George....both photos are amazing. Hope that bruising clears up soon and enjoy the next day or two's recovery in hospital....

S

Dr didnt seemed too concerned about it, he said that it would eventually go away. I will speak to him at great lengths about it tomorrow. It isnt hurting me so much today as it did yesterday. The nurse did outline the bruising with a pen to see if it spread , but it didnt.

I also have more bruising around the 5 key holes today, that werent all there a couple of days ago. my "gut" "is very swallen . I can understand the bruising around the key holes but not the rest.

There are more keyholes on the other side :)

Libby : Yes it is the side I lay on, but I am sure that I was flat on my back that night as I woke up in same position with blankets untouched (which is rare for me )

Sorry for the graphic image