complication

Dec 29, 2010

I almost spent the holiday in the hospital this year.  I was finishing up my X-mas shopping on Sunday 12/19 and started to not feel well.  I thought it was just a bowel thing (never paid so much attention to my output before now!), but it progressively got more and more painful over the next 20 minutes.  The significant other (S.O.) made me go to the Emergency Room and I was stressing about all the horrible things abdominal pain can mean for a recent post-op.  Turned out it was a large hernia.  Apparantly my intestines wanted to go sight-seeing through the rabit hole.  Saying "painful" seems much too mild a statement.  Anyway, I had an emergency repair done on Monday night and was home recovering on Tuesday night.  Yes, that may seem rapid, but I was totally determined to be home for the holiday as the kids and family were coming.  Everything seems to be healing up fine, just soreness now and sometimes a bit too much bend and/or turn than is comfortable when I forget to be careful.

At least the holiday food was not even an issure for me.  I seem to have become "smell sensative" to food.  I've gotten so I hate the smell of most cooking, which is a far cry from where I used to be.  The smell of the baking X-mas ham actually made me feel a bit ill.  Everyone else commented on how good the house smelled and how much they enjoyed the dinner.  I did try a bit of the ham, but it was a no-go.  So far I haven't had any luck in the meat category.  Maybe I will just eat a lot of soup for the rest of my life?  Gee, now I'm whining.  Pity party in aisle 7.

My S.O. asked me if, after all that's happened this past week (and my complaining about soup), I would do the RNY surgery again.  I did think before I answered.  (I wanted to be honest)  Yeah, I would have done it anyway, even if I knew the hernia was coming later.  And you know what?  I'm not going to play any "regret games" with myself.  I keep telling myself that I feel so much better now that just last month.  Could things change?  Of course.  Things always do.  Of all the decisions I've made in my life, there are very few which I actually regret.  Right now I can't see the RNY as one of them.

**On another note, I still love my Sketchers shoes.  I haven't had any foot, back, or leg pain since I've been wearing them.  Quite comfortable and they seem to be durable.**

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