Surgery and unexpected ER trip

Surgery went great yesterday! It was a short surgery and I have very little pain! He said that he cleaned up a lot of the torn cartilage that was catching and causing the pain. I have to leave the dressing on until Sunday and then the new giant brace will stay on until I go back and see him a week from Thursday. Right now I have only taken regular Tylenol twice since the surgery.

The biggest struggle we had was that I did not receive enough fluids during the surgery and my autonomic dysfunction really flared up! I ended up going back to the emergency room for more fluids. I felt like I was going to faint and had a low heart rate. After about 5 hours in the ER and 1.5 liters of saline solution I feel FANTASTIC!!!! Right now I think we are doing ok, just for the next surgery I now know that I need to make sure to ask for more fluids!