The Deed is done.
Completed my donation 05/12/2026 (holy shit cannot believe it wasn't even a full 96 hours ago, feels like a month rofl). Some thoughts as I sit up typing this in bed:
I really wish I had been better prepared for how gassy and bloated I would be. To me, that was worse than the flat pain, haha. Didn't even touch my at home oxy but I would have killed for some gas-x or something.
Definitely trying to process a lot of emotion. I'm a little disappointed that my first feeing I really remember is more of a "oh god, should I really have done that?", but the more the pain and the gassiness subsides, the more positive my feelings get about the whole thing.
Apparently, I'm funny (per the RN, not per me, literally don't remember it) when I'm high as tits and coming out of anesthesia. I don't even remember PACU at all but apparently the med surg nurse could hear me on the other end when PACU called to give report before sending me up.
I was definitely overhyped on the pain, but I tend to have a decent pain tolerance. When I was younger I had a liver abscess drained and the pus spread a bit in my system and caused convulsions - I was in so much pain I couldn't will myself to move my diaphragm enough to breathe. Compared to that, the immediate pain control in the hospital + Tylenol made this a breeze in terms of pain.
Overall, 10/10, would do again. I hope whoever got the thing is happy with it, haha.