Post-Op Day 8

Jun 11, 2015

Hello!! Day 8 post-op and doing much better! Pain is down, still hurting in one spot to the right of my belly button in between two of my incision sites. It's not terrible, and the pain medicine my surgeon sent me home with helps (and I'm not having to use as much or as often) It's a burning pain mostly and when I try and bend too far over or twist I get sharp pain in that spot. I'm told that things are so much better after day 10, so I'm impatiently waiting. I've been able to move and walk more without too much pain, but am slow moving. Today I cleaned out my pantry and linen closets, cleaned (with help from my mom and daughter), vacuumed, swept, moped, and went to my daughter's softball game. So I'm feeling pretty accomplished! I'm able to drink more and more each day; premier protein shakes and water with various flavors of crystal lite. The protein shakes do not taste as good to me as the flavored water, so I have to force myself to drink them, but I'm getting about 2 shakes a day which is 60 g protein. I'm shooting for 3 shakes a day, 90 g protein, but haven't managed it yet. I haven't weighed since my surgery day (I don't have a scale that goes high enough to weigh me) so I think I'm going to my doctors tomorrow morning to weigh. I'm hoping I've lost some. I think it's far enough since my surgery date that all the fluids they pumped me with are gone.  

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