Ready to roll!

May 01, 2010

It is 5:25 am, I have been up for an hour already, my neck is so stiff from this hospital bed that it distracts from the abdominal soreness. I have really been pleasantly surprised that this surgery was not more painful. I think having 2 c-sections and an abdominal hysterectomy made this a walk in the park compared to the pain following those. The weird part is when I take the tiniest sip I really feel it slide down and sit between my breasts and gurgle. I have been burping like a teenage boy drinking root beer. LOL!  My I.V. infiltrated last night and my nurse was soooo cool because she said she would just go ahead and leave it out since I was not using the pain meds through it anyway and I was fine sipping water. I was so excited to get rid of that darn I.V. I usually have trouble with I.V.'s and they have to move them 20 times and torture me with the digging to find a good vein, but the first one from surgery lasted almost the whole time!! I have found that sipping something warm feels a lot better that the ice water.  I went to a little post-op exercise class here at the hospital and it was pretty cool, they showed us all sorts of stuff we can do while sitting, and lots of simple stuff to do standing, they said to also do them on my long car ride home to help prevent blood clots. They have been giving me shots of blood thinners too. My sweet in-laws are on the way here to bust me outta this joint and take me to the hotel and take me home tomorrow, they say not to drive for 3 weeks, I am going back to work in 8 days, shhhhhhhh, Don't tell my doc.LOL! One of the little nurses assistant's is named Hailey, that is my daughters name, makes me sad and I want to just get home, leaving the kids for this many days has been the hardest part, well I miss my hubby too, but he works about 15 or so hours a day and I work a lot, so I am kind of use to sort of not seeing him a lot sometimes. I swear I would have felt bad if he was here trying to sleep his 6 foot 3 self on that little hard cot. My Macaws have been calling out for me, my one Julie is a big mamas girl, so she has let my hubby take her out of her cage but not pet or love on her, this spoiled parrot gets hugs, belly scratches  and kisses on the cheek from me. I am going to go and take a shower, get dressed and packed and wait for my Dr. to come by and cut me loose.

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