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A Whole New Life...
Mar 15, 2010
Well - here I am 3 days post-surgery and I'm starting to feel a little bit better. I was able to go upstairs to bed last night and stay in bed for about 3 hours. That's 3 hours more than I've done before that. I did wind up coming down to the couch around 3:30 a.m. and wound up watching TV and dozing. I haven't been sleeping really well, but that's to be expected. Each day I've felt a little bit better, and each day I'm a little more able to accomplish things - like getting myself up off the couch. The first day and a half I wasn't able to do that! It was pretty comical watching my husband and daughter attempting to get me up off the couch.Now, I'm walking around the house and I'm not quite so much the "Hunchback of Notre Dame" - I'm only partially hunched like someone's Aunt Gladys or Auntie Sue...LOL
My belly looks like a fight was fought on it. When I first got home from the hospital there was gauze and tape in a "Z" pattern across my belly. I didn't care much - the pain meds were good!
But when I got a look at my stomach - each piece of gauze was numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 - and there was a bunch of tape on top of all of it. Then I looked a little further and had two pretty good sized welts - a small one on the right side and a HUGE one on the left side. I still don't know what those are, but I've been putting triple antibiotic ointment on them just in case. Then there came the time to take the tape off and take a shower - oh my...that hurt! I've got very irritated skin from the tape and some more burns on the skin - so more triple antibiotic! But I'm doing pretty well - so I'm happy that the steri-strips are in place over the five incisions and I'm able to do a few things for myself. The gas has been a real pain! I didn't experience any of it the first two days. Then yesterday it was slight - today it's really giving me fits! It's causing pain and it's FINALLY coming out here and there. I'm getting used to how much to drink - I took my meds today for the first time since surgery - I was too chicken to take them!
So, overall - everything is going well - I'm recuperating, I'm on my liquid diet, and I'm feeling a little bit better everyday. You can't beat that, can you?! Can't wait to share with all of you! How are YOU doing on your journey?
