Two things
First, the surgery was on wednesday. I'm currently on a "OnQ" pump, which means a chemical, much like lidocaine, is being pumped directly to the nerve bundle responsible for providing pain signals to my brain. My brain has no idea there recently occurred quite the intrusion. Unfortunately, there is only enough Ropivacaine in there to last 65-70
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are you ok?
i do hope that you get a refill on the nerve block . . .
heal quickly!
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Once the 65 hours is up, my wife yanked the catheter right out of my shoulder.
Interestingly, I still had another 24 hours (??!?!!?) of relief. It wasn't until we started doing my home physical therapy today that the pain really stated to flare up.
Incidently, we're under direct orders from my physical therapist to not fight during our home physical therapy :)
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