4 days post-op. Still probably overdoing it

May 15, 2011

In bed asleep last night at an unheard of 9:30 pm. God a pretty good night sleep, although the longer stretches leave me waking up very dry and in quite a bit of pain. The CPAP helps dry me right out too and with the diahrrea I've had, I get a little worried about dehydration. I'll probably go back to using my alarm every two hours to keep hydrated for tonight.

I've started sparsing out my pain meds a bit. I'm not into suffering but don't care for narcotics either so I only take them if the pain really kicks in. So far, I had one at 3 o'clock this afternoon after being extremely active all day. I woke up at 7 o'clock. I went for a walk. I got some clean laundry put away and the dirty stuff downstairs. I had a visit from my angel Pheona, who had some great news of her own to share, as well as tons of wisdom. We went for a walk together.

We cut up a bag of carrots, a head of cauliflower and a head of celery and made some homemade veggie soup as well as getting some snackables ready in the fridge for my son for the week. Also cut up and packaged a couple of blocks of cheese and got the soup split up and into the fridge/freezer. Had the brilliant idea to pour some cottage cheese and milk into the soup before I pureed it to up the protein content. It's TOO good!

Made my son two meals today, some of the healthiest ever. Managed to get in my 64 oz (plus) of protein today as well as about 8 oz of that delicious soup.

I got the dishwasher loaded and the kitchen cleaned up and I've just about had it. My biggest problem now is that the two hour Desperate Housewives finale is coming on at 9 and I feel like I'm going to be needing a pill but shortly. Chances are I won't make it until 11. Oh well, missing tv is soon to be a "problem" of the past so who cares. Not like they don't play in reruns or on the net or something.

Today was exponentially better than yesterday, pain and energy level wise. I'm hoping I haven't overdone it and that I'll experience the same amount of progress tomorrow.

I've realized my first NSV and not even on purpose: I've been at home all day and awake since 7am, yet I haven't had a nap. Unheard of!!!!! Amazing.

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