Startling discoveries

Jun 04, 2014

Things that no one told me pre-op: The pain from surgery is 10x worse than you imagined and it lasts at least a week. You will wake up hating things you loved before and have no tolerance for certain smells. 

It's been a week of crazy town at my house since my surgery on the 28th. I intended to go to work on Monday following my surgery - I work at home in a chair for 8 hours, how hard could it be? - only to discover that my brain was too focused on things like pain and looting and how much water and OMG I'm full. So yeah, that didn't happen as planned. LOL Guess I should have known better. 

I will confess, fully and completely honestly, that I prayed to Heavenly Father to help me fart. Yes, I asked the Lord to help me poot. My husband about lost his mind when I threw that into my daily prayers, but I'm pretty sure HF knows what gas is and doesn't want me to be in pain. IJS. This week I'm asking him to help me poo, so I'm pretty sure I have a close relationship with my Father in Heaven and that He is cracking up. But those things are killing me - well, maybe not literally, but dude! it's intense. 

I have to say that in some ways I feel like I can't tell I had surgery except for the pain and the fact that I cannot get enough water in me - but I'm still mentally hungry. Good news? I cannot over eat because I take two bites and feel like Thanksgiving dinner just happened. But then thirty minutes later, I could eat again. Hm... I say COULD not SHOULD or even that I have. I've been tracking my food, blood sugar and exercise on my phone and I have to say I think I'm doing ok.

"It's not about the destination, it's the journey" applies to a lot of things, but not this. I'm 100% focused on the destination because right now, the journey sucks. A lot. That's all I have to say about that.

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