Thanks everyone! I was initially a bit leery of choosing Dr. Morcos and Dr. Telischi as my surgeons because I read some other people's experiences with them here on this site, and I think one person even ended up with permanent facial paralysis as a result of their surgery with them. But I put those concerns behind me and went into the operation with a "whatever happens, happens, and I'll deal with it" mentality.
The nursing care at Jackson Memorial was a bit spotty at times, and for some reason they transferred me from the PACU to the neuro floor without any pain orders. The new neuro resident on call said I that I shouldn't be in that much pain, but it turns out that I was in 9/10 and 10/10 pain for the first day contrary to their expectations. After something like 4-6 hours of me writhing there in excruciating pain, he finally deigned to come into my room and to listen to me, but even then he seemed really dismissive about my pain and me and the nurse had to pretty much strong arm him into prescribing me IV morphine PRN and 2 percocets every 4 hours.
Also, communication was a bit difficult as I got all foreign born nurses so there was a lot of runaround and miscommunication whenever I needed to talk to them. I understand it's Miami and so that's expected, but I really would have liked a native English speaker as a nurse at least once.
I'm getting my stitches taken out in 2 days, and I plan on being back in nursing school in early January. I have to see what proscriptions and limitations the doctors impose on me first. I would really hate to have to wait until the fall semester before I get back into school.
