epidurals
Cynthia Faullin (cfaullin@uiuc.edu)
Fri, 29 Mar 1996 13:38:16 -0600
Hi everyone! I had a great epidural with Trevor. I was in a lot of pain
because of my liver so it was hard to curl up. I think the anesthesiologist
gave me a bit of a local so that insertion wouldn't be so uncomfortable.
She was really really nice. Unfortunately she hit a vein and had to do the
insertion over again. She apologized profusely. My L&D nurse was with me
and I squeezed her hand like crazy to counteract the incredible pressure
feeling of the tube being inserted. Gives me the heebie jeebies to think
about it. Yikes! Anyway, it was a heavy duty epidural because I was having
a c-section. The only unpleasant side effect was an incredible pain between
my shoulder blades once I was up and walking around again. I'm not even
sure that I can blame this on the epidural but at the time it was the only
cause I could think of. One of our nurses in Neo. had an epidural for a
c-section and it didn't take. She kept telling them that she wasn't numb
and they didn't believe her. They had actually begun the incision when she
lifted her legs from the table to prove that she could feel what was going
on. Can you believe it?!!!! Another nurse told me of a c-section she was
present at where the mother refused any kind of pain medication. No
nothing. How could you possibly stand that? For those of you who have
never seen a c-section scar, it's not tiny, not even the bikini line ones
like mine. Plus they just don't slice you open and haul the baby out. They
have to clamp the incision open and squeeze you like a tube of toothpaste to
get the baby and everything else out not to mention the stitches or staples
at the end. Good grief. Cynthia.