Well, what would progress be without a few setbacks....
For those who've been on this board since my last BHR, may recall that I got very ill a few days after surgery. My temperature spiked to 106 and I began to vomit uncontrollably. Of course when that happened, my first fear was infection. Well, it wasn't infection, it was (a guess by a few different doctors) a reaction by my body to a traumatic surgery.
So this time around, I made sure to stay in the hospital an additional day and I made sure Dr. Pritchett sent us home with anti nausea medication. That all seemed to be working well and good...
Until last night...
At about 8:00, my stomach started feeling rock hard and I could tell all the liquids I had been drinking were just splashing around in there. Within a half an hour... even with anti-nausea meds on board, I began vomiting uncontrollably. During the next three hours my temperature shot up to 106 and I became delirious. It was the weirdest thing. I couldn't judge time or space and felt outside of my body. My wife checked, and my incision site didn't show any signs of infection. The doctor told her to give it one hour and give me more Tylenol and ice packs to bring down the temperature. If it didn't budge, we were to go to the ER.
So I proceeded to have this strange out of body experience the next hour, while my wife tended to the ice packs and cold wash cloths. My temperature finally broke and within the hour had dropped to about 100.5. I felt like I'd been slow-rolled by a tractor and finally fell asleep at about 2:30am.
It's now just after 8am and I feel pretty good. For whatever reason, my body has a serious and violent reaction to surgery. Just like with my first hip, it began on the 4th day post op and was done by the 5th. Not sure if there is anything to be learned here, since this seems to be a pretty rare and unique complication. I guess the one takeaway for everyone would be... don't freak out and think you have an infection just because of a slight fever and some nausea. It could be. Or, maybe you're just a weirdo like me who doesn't tolerate surgery very well!
As a footnote: my muscular pain this time around is WAY lower than the last surgery. I've spent a lot of time massaging through he tightness and discomfort in my thigh, and it seems to have worked. I feel like I could already move to one crutch if I wanted to! Even though I won't. : )