Wednesday, 21 August 2013

13 days until carpal tunnel surgery

My decompression surgery is less than two weeks away. 13 days. I'm starting to feel worried about it. I know the procedure itself is pretty straightforward. I'm just worried about any complications. I know they're rare but this is my dominant hand. I'm worried about th nerve damage. I'm worried about this pillar pain around the incision I was told about. I'm worried about having stitches removed. I've never had stitches that weren't dissolvable. (Quite glad of that since my last lot of stitches were to stitch up my pelvic floor.) 

Anyway, from what I've heard the procedure should take about 20 minutes. I'm allowed a light breakfast but nothing to eat after 7am. I can drink 300ml at 11am and then nothing else. I've to be up at the hospital to be admitted to the ward at 12pm. There will be a few hours waiting so I'm planning on bringing a book. I was going to bring my kindle but I thought I'd rather misplace a £3 book instead of a £69 kindle! If anyone's interested the book I'm taking is "Revenge Wears Prada." I'm desperate to read it now but I know if I'm in for a lengthy wait I'll be bored and will be glad of a distraction from the "OMG I'm having surgery" thoughts. 

I'll be awake for the surgery. Awake. It'll be done with a local anaesthetic rather than a general. So, yeah, awake. Apparently I won't feel any pain. I'll be able to feel them doing something but it won't be painful. I'm going to be so paranoid that I can feel it. I asked about it and I'll be lying down with a screen up so I can't see what's going on. 

After I'm all stitched up I imagine will be on the ward for an hour or so and then I can go home. 

I'll need wear my right hand in a high sling for a few days, then just the massive bandage, then stitches out within 2 weeks....

I was seeing the GP today. I have an informal meeting with my manager on Friday so I needed my sick line extended. The GP wrote one for four weeks. 


I've just to make another appointment to see him then, I don't particularly like this GP so I'm actually thinking would it be cheeky to make one with my normal GP? I don't know. 

Anyway, if all goes well, in 13 days I'll only be suffering the symptoms of unilateral carpal tunnel syndrome. 


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  1. echonl22 August 2013 at 08:31

    The doctors always tell me to come back and see them but I usually see a diff one anyway lol. Although talking to a guy doctor about contraception is a bit awkward. Haha.

    The surgery will be fine. Positive thoughts doll.

    Hope you'll be ok with arm in sling and doing other things with left hand. It'll show you how much you rely on your right hand I bet. Cups of tea. Brushing teeth. Putting socks on lol x x

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  2. Anonymous24 August 2013 at 14:41

    Surgery will be ok :-) deffo a good idea to fetch a book, I know it's completely different but I found the long wait for surgery to be awful without something to do. Having stitches taken out is easy too, you don't feel it other than a little tugging.

    Hope you're ok xx

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