COMPLICATIONS... October 28, 2014

Ride home.

We left the hospital and headed for Bes' car. I was in a wheelchair being pushed to the car and I noticed my eye was getting worse again. The swelling was starting to come back even more. I had asked the nurse that was pushing me out if I should be worried about my eye. He said that its normal to have a little more swelling as you leave because I'm now off steroids which made a lot of sense. The steroids helped keep the swelling down. I took his word for it and off we went.

 Its about 40 minutes to Bes' house. During the ride, I'm starting to feel worse and worse. My eye is getting more swollen. I just sit in the back with my eyes closed.  I CANNOT wait to get there.

When we get back to the house, I am feeling so bad that I go upstairs and strait to bed. I don't even take the shower. I didn't eat either. Later, my mom brought food up to me. I ate and then tried to go back to sleep. I kept taking my pain meds, but it wasn't getting any better.

Getting worse, not better.

At 6 a.m., I text my mom in the other room and told her we needed to go back to the hospital.

No more waiting around. Something isn't right.

I should not be feeling this bad, six days out of surgery, when I had never felt this bad any of the days prior. My face was so swollen. It was spreading to my other eye and it was also going down my neck and past my collarbone. I can't even explain how I felt. Never I have a felt this way in my life.

Once we got a hold of one of the NPs she said we can head in to Dr. Kassam's office.  My eyes are closed the whole ride. I can't wait to get back to the hospital. I have a sweatshirt on and the hood is over my head.  I'm put in a wheelchair and we go to the elevator to get up to the doctor's office.

The elevator took FOREVER!

Then, we got lost. The doctor's clinic is being remodeled, so he was on a completely different floor. By the time we got to the clinic I was gonna lose it. I was so miserable. First, the nurse came in to see me and took my vitals. I had a bit of a temperature and I was relieved. I felt like that meant something was wrong and they wouldn't just send me home.

The most horrific photo of myself. 

Feeling horrible and never looked worse in my life. 

Amazed that you can go from 

looking like this to normal again. 

The body is amazing. 

Knock me out, do anything! I am in so much pain!

Doctor Kassam came in, he took one look at me and said readmit her.

Thank the Lord!

I'm brought back down to the neuro-ICU. My room was still open, so I was put back in there. They hooked me up to steroids, antibiotics and pain meds right away.

After an hour or two, I started feeling much better.  Dr. Kassam came in to check on me a little bit later. Afterwards, outside of my room, he was talking to another doctor. He told him that something wasn't right and his "spidey-senses" were kicking in. He wanted to bring me back into the OR in the morning and see whats going on. I was okay with that because I just wanted relief.

I was in his hands and at this point I felt like he was the only person able to save me.