Week 2

Sep 15, 2014

I started feeling better on day 8 and my Dad, stepmom, brother and I went to San Francisco to see the Giants play the Dodgers. It was the hardest day I've had since surgery because of all the amazing smells! Burgers, and hotdogs, and popcorn, and beer, and garlic fries, and nachos. I was in head hunger hell for sure! I'm glad to report that I didn't give in because I didn't want to risk getting sick at the ballpark. Luckily the Giants crushed the Dodgers 9-0 with totally made my night. The next day I went out with my mom and stepdad doing errands. The morning of my 10th day post-op I couldn't get out of bed. I was having severe sharp stabbing pains at the large incision site and deeper into the muscle. It was getting worse and I could barely move so my mom took me to the emergency room. I was triaged quickly and admitted. The doctor did an ultrasound of the incision and said everything looked fine and there were no fluid pockets and it looked like it was healing very nicely. She said it was probably because I was overdoing it because I was anxious to do things and be active again. She prescribed me more of the liquid painkillers and send me home with orders to rest and heal. So that's what I've been doing. This coming Thursday will be 2 weeks post op and I will get to start on puréed foods so I'm pretty excited for that. I'm so sick of pudding and jello. I think my thrush is about gone now and I don't have a sore throat anymore but I got a refill on the anti fungal rinse and I'm going to keep taking it just to make sure it's gone for good. I also started taking acidophilus pills to help restore the natural bacteria in my system. 

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