I am finally out of the hospital. I was in for 4 long days. I hopefully
HAD sleep apnea. The surgery I endured was to cut muscle from underneath my tongue, so it would stay lower in my mouth when I sleep at night. Another part of the same surgery was to remove portions of top of mouth and remove the uvula(punching bag hanging at back of throat). The last part of surgery was to cut portions out of my nose and straighten septum and to install temporary support. This was 3 hours of surgery.
I was told by surgeon and others that this would be the most painful thing of my life...... he was right! The next 3.5 days I could not eat or drink anything, nor could I sleep. The way I existed was being feed and drink by a IV. I spent 2-3 hours day before I left trying to drink a 1/4 ounce of ice tea. To completed things I am diabetic, so 4 times a day they would test my blood and inject insulin.
Try to image swallowing after the surgery.....the pain would bring tears to your eyes. Every 2 hours a nurse you come by and inject morphine into by IV....you could feel a slight burning sensation going into your arm as the morphine would kick in. They were giving me some other pain medication every 4 hours by mouth burn the inside of my mouth and throat as I tried to get it down, because they could not give me pain pills to swallow.
My father in law came by to visit .....I look so bad he stayed about 2 minutes.... my wife said my looks shook him up badly. My wife came by and would spend hours with me daily. My two sons came by the first day also.... I scared them too.
The good news is I AM OUT(of the hospital), after having laser assisted uvulopalatoplasty and radio frequency ablation(somnoplasty) and some other things I can't think of and also trying to get to sleep more than 45 minutes at a time.
Cudaman
