Hospital recovery

3 days after surgery i was put on the general ward, with my epidural taken away after 4 days. the next few days i struggled with the painkillers as they made me sick and being sick and having a 18" cut across your stomach is very very painful indeed.

the pain eased a little and i swapped between paracetamol and morphine for the next 2 days.

Over the 7 days post surgery, i was as sore as you can expect but wasn't getting sleep due to the constant hum drum of the ward and the lights. So after 7 days i asked to be discharged. As my levels were OK they agreed i could go home. I had had 2 lots of dialysis, one of which they turned of my epidural by accident, which left me in agony for 4 hours.

I have to say that the dialysis i had 5 day post operativly was very painful, and as i was left alone and had no staff contact was distressing. I hope that wont happen again.

Fistula Packed Up!

Unfortunately during surgery my blood pressure dropped so far that the fistula clogged up, i didnt know this until my wife felt my arm and didnt feel the thrill.

So they used my central line until a permanent line was put into my chest.

I went in for my kidney removal on the 2nd October, after a delay i went down and returned 3 hours later minus 10.5 kilograms (22lbs) of Kidneys. Some of the biggest the surgeon had seen!

I came back into the Acute Renal Care as my blood pressure was low and i was in need of a blood transfusion.

Still Here!

Its been a while since the operation but ill explain whats happened in chunks!