Hi hun
I know it was all v. strange, they did ask if I wanted to hang on but they gave me the impression if I did I might be bumped back quite a bit so I didn't wanna risk them changing the rota yet again so said I was ok to go in. I just wanted to get it over with and get home!
Sounds like a complete nightmare! There were a couple of biddies on my ward too but they were the quiet ones, like you say the nurses are v. loud and just carry on. I was supposed to sleep for an hr after the op before they'd let me go home but the nurses were making so much noise I couldn't sleep so in the end got OH to ask if we could go.
Well when I came around from my op tears just started streaming down my face. I just kept saying to the docs "I didn't say a prayer and I didn't say goodbye", as I had been concentrating so much on getting through the op, I think i'd detached myself from what was happening as was my way of getting through it. I had actually been thinking about my toddler as I went under as there were some Tweenies hanging from the ceiling above me and its her fave programme. Well when I woke it immediately hit me, the guilt that I had been thinking of Bella and not the baby that was being taken from me as they put me under and that I should have said my goodbyes. I know now I had already had and still have plenty of time to say my goodbyes and prayers, in the privacy of my own home rather than in an operating theatre, but at the time I cried all the way back to OH but then calmed down.
When the doc was trying to console me after the op when I was still in theatre, he said did I want to see and I said I didn't think there would be much to see and the doc said "Don't worry there is i'll arrange it". Well I stupidly was thinking of my baby as being bigger than it actually was and thought they meant the baby but then the nurse brought through this large plastic container full of what looked like just blood. I was horrified and felt really stupid for even thinking I would be able to see something, as the baby was obviously a tiny part of the contents of that container and I just wish I had said no as was quite traumatic. So no I didn't get to see my baby before they took him/her away to histology
I stopped bleeding completely the day after my op but then the next day I did start again and this continued for about a wk on and off. It would tail off if I was relaxing and putting my feet up but whenever I overdid it or excerted myself a bit too much it started up again. I did have a few cramps but mainly due to the uterus stretching back so this is to be expected. Don't worry if your bleeding doesn't pick up again though as some people just have a bit of spotting and that's it and Shazza had nothing after the op and has been fine.
I'd keep an eye on your 'pee' situation, I didn't experience any problems with this so after their concerns and the talk of them wanting to catheterise you perhaps its worth giving them a call tomorrow, as the last thing you need on top of this is a urinary tract infection!
Take care and if you need anything at all i'm just a PM away.
xxx