19 Days Post Op

Feb 07, 2012

So, it's been 11 days since I last wrote and, well, I'm STILL not a whole lot better!  I'm eating ok, drinking ok, feeling ok (no nausea or anything), but this pain just will not go away!  So, I DID wait to go to the Dr. for my Post Op appointment, which was really hard to do, since I was hurting so bad!  Dr. Husain (my surgeon) told me that one (or more) of my nerves has been caught up in my stitches in my muscle.  Talk about pain!  Yeah, it still hurts! It makes me pretty irritable at times.
She said that, in a week or two, the stitches inside would start to dissolve and I would start feeling better.  I'm still waiting.  I think it is starting to get a little better.  Getting out of bed isn't as bad as it was, and sitting on the toilet doesn't KILL me anymore, but I do still have pain.  It usually starts around 4 or 5 at night, for some reason.  And it's not like I'm doing a whole lot.  I just sit around, sometimes do some dishes or some laundry, but nothing huge, so I don't get it.  I still can't bend over at all, and reaching across anything is pretty bad!  So, yeah... I'm waiting. Getting frustrated.

I'm also SO paranoid about eating.  I'm at the "soft and mushy" stage, but am afraid to eat anything so it's still be soups and malt-o-meal.  I did have a boiled egg yesterday and it made me sick.  Maybe I shouldn't have eaten the whole thing, I dunno.  I actually couldn't eat the last bite, anyway.  I know I'm not hungry but I want "normal food" SO bad!  Like steak or asparagus or salad... all the stuff I can't eat for awhile!  Ergh!  
And I'm thirsty!  The nutritionist said, like our hunger, the thirst would go away, too.  Mine hasn't, at all, and I just want to slam a bunch of water, but I can't.  It drives me nuts!!  

Well, I'm going to go see how I do with tuna, so I'll write later.  Hopefully I'll feel better by then.  Here's hoping!!

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