The Honeymoon

My first night post-surgery was terrible. I laid down around 10pm and took a vicodin (hydrocodone) and a flexeril (cyclobenzaprine). I woke up at midnight and went to the bathroom. I woke up around 2am to go to the bathroom, but I was in excruciating pain. Even attempting to move my leg resulted in shooting pain up and down my leg at an intensity of 8 out of 10. Thankfully, I had left a vicodin on the nightstand, so I took one and tried to go back to sleep until the effects kicked in. Around 3am, I woke up again and this time I was able to get out of bed and go to the bathroom. I awoke again at 430am and headed back to the bathroom. At this point, I wondered if I had any fluid left in my body to pee out. At 6am, I went to the bathroom again. At 730, I woke up with pain in my leg and took 2 vicodin and another flexeril and went back to sleep. Around 930am I woke up for good (and of course, went to the bathroom again) when the hospital called to check on me.

I have to sleep with two pillows under my right leg as well as keeping the ace bandage on there. I dont have to sleep in the knee brace, but every time I get out of bed, I have to put it back on, which gets to be very tedious. I usually sleep on my stomach or side, so I could never really get comfortable sleeping on my back. At one point, I woke up and my entire right arm and leg were numb. Another time I woke up and was laying on my left side, with my right leg laying on top of a pillow which was on top of my left leg. Not very comfortable, to say the least.