Surgery plus 5 days

Mar 13, 2010

Spent my first night sleeping in bed last night - mostly on my back but sometimes on each side - though I can feel it now as my incisions are hurting.  Pulled off one of my plasters to check what was going on as the incision was hurting - but it looks like my staples are pulling on the skin - no infection.  It seems that I have 4 staples for each incision - they look tidy enough - can wait to have the staples taken out though as I think they are making me uncomfortable - only 2 more days for this.

Struggling to get down enough liquids - yesterday I had 500ml plain water, 100ml bovril, 70 ml cup a soup and 50 ml vanilla protein shake. As a result of this - I'm quite tired again today, but am feeling uncomfortable if I try to drink more.  Must make the soup thinner - it made me feel quite uncomfortable after drinking it slowly.

Still not feeling hungry at all which is great - husband is eating all kinds of strange meals as he can't be bothered to go shopping and I've not felt like going out yet - will try and go with him a bit later.

Still not had a tea/coffee so maybe I'm a bit low on caffeine too !!

Anyway, apart from the staples pulling I'm much more comfortable and really pain free - had a shower yesterday and was able to do it without any help - even though I was a bit shattered afterwards.

That's it for now.
Take Care

Debbie

PS - Looks like I am down 16 lbs in 5 days - WOW

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