The Fistula Saga: Part III - The New Waiting Game
So, I had my surgery today, and everything seemed to go as planned. In my last entry I said that I was unsure whether I would have a local warrant general anesthetic. As it turns out I wasn’t really given a choice. I had the local anesthetic, which they called block. What it is, or what it was explained to me, is a needle in the arm with an electric current coming into the end of it, touching certain nerves, looking for a specific nerve. Once it’s found, that particular nerve is then frozen which freezes the whole arm. I was then given a sedative and I fell asleep. I’m glad for that because then I didn’t have any idea of what was going on. I woke up in the recovery room in the nurses told me that I was snoring.
As of right now, the freezing of nerve in my arm has worn off and I have a feeling back in my arm. The problem with that is that I also have the pain from the incision. I was prescribed painkillers for that he and i’m wearing a sling to remove some of the pressure off my arm.
The doctor told me that the operation had been a success. Now I need to wait six weeks for the fistula to heal properly and then we can attempt to use it. I was told that once it has been used six times simultaneously then I can have my central line taken out and use the fistula permanently.
So now a new waiting game begins.
