Around 9:00am, about 15 hours after surgery, I was still feeling nauseated.  I couldn’t imagine stomaching medication.  My breast surgeon came into the room to check up on me and to see if I was ready to be discharged.  I was still out of it and no way near ready to be discharged home.  Surgeon decided I should try an anti-nausea medication that would dissolve under the tongue and then wait for about a half an hour to take pain medications orally and to do this throughout the day.  Then the surgeon would be back to visit me in the late afternoon to see how I was doing and if I could be discharged home.

Ray decided to turn on the TV to hear the local news.  The weather was bad in our area for icy road conditions.  In fact, schools were all closed in the area.  I started thinking, how the heck are we going to drive home with icy road conditions, let alone drive up our hill in our subdivision to get to our house.  Umm….I DON’T THINK SO!  Wouldn’t it be safer just to stay in the hospital?  There was NO WAY I was going to get stuck on the road in a vehicle or having to park down the bottom of the hill and walk by foot up the steep hill to our house after a double mastectomy!!  Nope, not happening.  The stress along thinking about it made my blood pressure rise.  I then dozed off to sleep.

I started feeling better and tolerating the pain medications by mouth.  The dissolving anti-nausea medication was working.  Soon, it was lunch time and I was given some food to try and eat.  Macaroni noodles, only it was NOT the hospital’s homemade favorite to die for recipe.  I think I ate about 4 noodles.  I kept up with eating the pudding, Jello, and crackers.  I literally had to force it down my throat.  Soon I was tolerating the oral pain meds throughout the day and near evening hours.  No more IV pain meds and my blood pressure was stabilizing to a normal range.  Surgeon came into the hospital room around 7:30 pm and decided I was ready to be discharged.  Now, how am I going to get home in icy road conditions.