Hi all. It's me again with another strange side effect. We had a nice long drive home today. Left about 8am, got home about 6pm. It really is only about 300 miles so it shouldn't have taken that long but I made hubby take me shopping at every town so I could get out and walk off the gas pains. The plus side of that is hubby went Christmas shopping with me AND carried all the bags. With a smile even! I'm marking this one down in the history books.

Anyways....on about the last half hour home my hand and arm started to ache. At first it was just a dull throb and by the time I got home it hurt to look at it. Touching it was excruciating. Well I called a nursing friend of mine and asked her if she thought it was something serious and she said no, it was just inflammation from the IV. She told me to put warm moist packs on it 4 or 5 times a day for about 15 minutes each. She said to only worry if it started turning red and the color creeped up my arm.

I just wanted you all to know to be on the look out. Honestly the pain was worse than the gas and I didn't think ANYTHING could be worse than the gas. And yes, I still have that too.

At least I'm home now, in my own recliner and I can snuggle in and just relax for awhile. I've never been happier for it to be Friday! Hope all are having a great day and good luck everyone next week. I'll be thinkin of ya.

Steph

WOW!!! Can't believe that you shopped that soon after surgery!!!! Your hubby must be a wonderful man!!

I'll definately keep a watch on my hand when I have surg.

Well Twilight, you give me hope... I was dreading my 3 hour drive home day after my surgery. I'll quite whining right now! Still have 10 days to go.

Hope the arm/hand thing gets better for you.

Steph, is the arm better today? I read the post, and was wondering if you were ok.

Kat

Glad your surgery went well. Is your arm better now? Donna

Hand is better. I put a thermacare wrap around it and the swelling went down. There is still a little pain but not unbearable. Thanks for the thoughts

Steph