I remember this!

AGAIN: This might be more information than you want to know about your good friend Jen.


I don't remember much from the day that Charlee was born. I didn't hear her cry I was completely under anesthesia. I do however remember the hour or so of prep work that everyone did on me while I was awake so Charlee would not get too much of the anesthesia.

The anesthesiologist and surgeons were concerned about blood loss and wanted some means of giving me blood fast before they cut me open. WHICH means that I had to have the central line and extra IV lines put in while I was awake. I felt very exposed as they cleaned me off preparing me for surgery. The nurse told me to just relax my legs. I told her that it was easier said than done. I was naked in a room full of people who were all concentrating on me and I was cracking jokes trying to stay calm.

First they moved me onto the skinny stainless steel surgical table. Then the Anesthesiologist put in the extra IV into my wrist. Then he draped a protective cloth over my face, positioned my head at an angle and asked me to hold perfectly still. I could see the needle through the plastic as he numbed my neck, then I heard him ask for a scalpel. I mentioned that it was kind of freaky to hear him say that and see him cut my neck. He then inserted what felt like a large tube and inserted into the superior vena cava (a large vein) in my neck. He put all his weight behind it and he said "you will feel a little pressure!" I said " a little!" It felt like a lot and it hurt!

This is what Andrew Aronld has.

Central lines don't infiltrate, their placement doesn't have to be changed, and they are inserted into major vessels capable of handling large amounts of different kinds of fluids. Central lines often have multiple lumens - color coded plastic lines with ports where the fluids can be plugged in. One lumen may be used only for blood transfusions, while another is used for medications, and another is used for TPN (Total Parenteral Nutrition - a high fat, high calorie kind of IV feeding).
The nurses cleaned the surgical area three times, the belly was no big deal it was just cold, on the other hand, it was the other areas that hurt and she kept apologizing. But what do you do when you are on a surgical table and there is a man putting a scalpel to your neck! YOU HOLD STILL!

He then gave me some medicine to help my stomach with heart burn and put the mask over my face with oxygen. I heard one of the nurses say, the surgeon is here.... I don't remember anything until

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