By the way....when I wound up hospitalized in mid-January for an intestinal blockage, I walked like crazy. I was up all hours of the day and night and walking all of the halls. I'd offer to be walking buddies with others who had surgery because I knew I didn't do it enough after my RC.
I'm convinced that if I had not walked so much, I would have needed surgery to clear the blockage.
Even though I walked all that much, I still couldn't convince them not to give me those anti-blood clot shots in the belly.
I even told them, "Hey, I walk more than the charge nurse! Give her the shot and leave me be."
Actually, the charge nurse in that hospital is supposed to stay in her spot at the nurses station so the nurses can find her so it was not intended as a slight to the charge nurse. Nurses are great!!! I married one.
Well, she became one after we were married.
I do believe the nurses are the most critical part of the recovery though. (Except for walking!)
Mike
Took that long because I did not have a pain meds pump till then when they finally got me one it didn't work and it took four hours for them to figure that out.
Luckily they did and boy was it great. Then I walked, walked, walked. It did take some figuring out because of all the tubes and stuff.
