Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Third time's a charm

Tomorrow I'm going to get my jaw injected with steroids for the third time. I've talked about the steroid injections in previous posts, but I'll do a little recap to refresh your memory. 

I'm scheduled to have my jaw injected at 7:00 a.m. in Hershey.   This means my mom and I will have to wake up around 4:30 a.m. because we live a hour and a half away from the hospital. Once we get there and I get all situated I'll be put under anesthesia so they can inject the joint. The actual procedure typically doesn't take long, or so I'm told, but it takes me forever to wake up from the anesthesia. Once I finally wake up, I typically get nauseous from the anesthesia.  This means I get to stay at the hospital for several more hours. When I finally get to go home, I'm normally in so much pain that I take pain killer and fall asleep.  Then I wake up to be in more pain. In the past when I had the injection, I had to miss about a week of school because of the extreme pain and swelling. 


I'll try to post tomorrow after I get home, but if I'm not able to I'll post Wednesday to let you all know how it went. 

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