It is now the day after the operation. I didn't record anything yesterday simply because I was asleep most of the time. I spent the first few hours after the operation very very sleepy. I had very little pain in my arm because of the nerve block that had been put into my neck. After a few hours however, the nerve block subsided and I began to feel pain in my shoulder and arm.
Below is what my shoulder looked like - it wasn't as bad as it looked as a lot of the blood was due to water that being used to flood the site.
My arm and hand were completely numb for a least 6 to 8 hours. I found that this was a very strange sensation, and made doing a lot of things a lot harder than I had realised before.
For painkillers I was being given Diclofenac and tramadol. At about 2 o'clock in the morning when I was unable to sleep and in a lot of pain I also had some morphine.
I came home from the hospital the next day i.e., this morning. Today I have basically slept on and off for most of the day. My shoulder hurt a lot on the way home and I also felt quite sick on the car journey. Once at home I found that after I had a good sleep my shoulder felt less painful. I am also icing my shoulder as much as possible.
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