hello all
I. had my surgery yesterday for installation of a pacemaker for bladder/colon. the surgery was about an hour or so. The twilight sleep was unreal to say the least. i was fully awake but could not move a muscle,I could hear everything going on,just could not scream,talk,yell all i could do was lay motionless. the installation of the electrodes for pacemaker had to be precise (that may be why I had to be totally motionless),a florascope had to be used to make sure the electrodes were put on the correct sacral nerve (i was told there are 4 nerves in sacral area one is for the bladder/colon) i guess that is a simple explanation. i was laying fully on my stomach, whole back side exposed,feet were off the end of the table up jacked up on a gel pad (looked like one of the cement abutments in parking lots for cars), i did stop breathing several times, had to jerked awake to make sure i was still alive. it was a scary twilight sleep for me.
I was given a cell phone type instrument to either turn up or turn down the stimulation on my bladder/colon area. the device was set at 7, that was to high for me, so over yesterday/afternoon-evening i played with the numbers. I went from 7-6-5-4 , I did kind of get frightened for a bit because before the device was implanted i was using the bathroom every hour to 2 hours 24-7 days a week. could not control anything, i have a 10 year supply of always pads in my shed, going thru those like no end, changing every time i used the bathroom, could not stop the flow.
I have had 2 bladder lifts since 1983, i have taken so many pills most did not help or I got super high blood pressure which to this day i have not been able to get rid of because of one of the pills i took.
my back is sore, have to sit down gently. can't do much lifting nothing over 5 pounds for 2 weeks, no back showers, you can take a shower but don't get back wet. I had my husband cut a garbage bag down, duct tape it over the incisions (I do have 2 incisions on my back -1 on right where the electrodes are and 1 on left). Why I have an incision on the left that I do not know. If the doctor told me after the surgery I can not remember what he said (I was semi out of it).
this is just a trial run, if the device works like it should it will be a keeper and a permanent pacemaker will be implanted under the skin on the 23rd of August.
Would I do it over, yes I would, anything to get relief. After many many many years of running to the bathrooms where I was up all night long hour after hour after hour, I just could not handle it any longer.
Sure hope it keeps getting better, So far SO GOOD.
that is my story
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