Sooooo.......today is Friday the 14th......just just a mere four days after surgery! WOW......what a road its been...and I am sooooo BEYOND Blessed! All is well! My surgery was GREAT...they also took out a hernia, so that was GREAT!! That was a big part of my stomach issues from Fall till Spring, so I am glad that is OVER!!! Let's talk scars??? So there are 10 spots all over this inflated and deformed stomach of mine! One in which is rather LARGE from the MAJOR area of insertion of LAPRO Surgery land...and the hernia removal!!! Then where the blood DRAIN was.....yeeeeeuck......lets just say...Major HOLE!
OK...enough with all that.....my days in the hospital on the GLORIOUS pain pump, at my BECK AND CALL, are a MERE memory....which made Wednesday at home a bit more difficult. Spreading out time with pills and feeling the pain in between doses of GOOD DRUGS. Let me tell you, I am NOT a FAN of pain killers, or much medicine, but WHY the heck am I gonna keep myself in pain?? This was a MAJOR surgery....bring on the VICADIN, and I did. And it's helped!
So, the BED is NOT a place for me right now.....and besides my Back surgery 20 years ago, I have NEVER wanted a recliner more than I do NOW!!! But the couch and I will be friends for a couple more days!!! This too will pass, and I will once again be with my wonderful SNORING husband!!!
I endured a LONG Teddy Bear picnic for five hours, where DYLAN CURRY was the STAR of the show for sure! So that was awesome....even did a few flights of stairs up and down! Tam, my wonderful Christian friend and Hairstylist, washed and styled my hair for me before hand so I didn't have to deal with that......so I looked nice for the picnic! That was awesome! The guests were Janet, my folk's; Tim's Dad and PJ; Leanne and the STAR's parents all there for him! What a GREAT day! I felt HUMAN!!! And my shirt and pants are already too big to wear, but I had to!!! Loving this! Wowoowowoow!
Home I went.....after the long day....took drugs, and believe it or not, DID NOT PASS OUT....caught up on some TIVO...which was cool, but it all started to become boring...FOUR HOURS OF TV ALL AT ONCE? Come on, when was the last time you did that??? Well, I guess I did it last after my thumb surgery, but when you go like I do ALL the time, it was hard to sit and chill. I was lonely crabby and felt lazy! But today I apologized to my family here, and let em know that I KNOW rest is what I need, and the funk of me going through it will get better!! I have to come to realize that this too shall pass, and it is TRULY what I HAVE to do to get better!!!
I will say, yesterday was my first experience with FOOD in four days...we did scrambled eggs. Quite honestly I was NOT hungry or AM I hungry. Which is hard to say or imagine, but if I do NOT make myself eat I will die...and I don't particularly care for that type of life!!! HAHAHHAH!! I did NOT have a good first impression with food......because I drank too much liquid before I ate and it just had No WHERE to go....so three hours later...UP IT came! GROSSSSSSS.....so I hope to have learned from that mistake.....today I tried tuna and so far so good!!! I can have a protein shake in place of food for one meal, so that will be a bit easier! Baby steps....Linda....baby steps!
So.........Leanne is still here with me through Sunday, and I am starting to feel a bit more human, so I can finally spend some fun time with her these next two days! I am actually having conversations in full sentences and laughing again, so I hope she is seeing the real ME coming through again!
So....each day is new....each day will only get better! The experience at Silver Cross was NOTHING shy of WONDERFUL, and I REALLY mean that! It was just GREAT!!! I look around my house and it is like a floral shop...the plants and flowers people sent!!! And all the MEALS and food?? My word, I just wish I could eat it...hahhahha! To say my family soooo happy, is a complete understatement! Oh my...I am glad all of these gifts are a reminder, because most of my first two days are a BLUR! Sorry about the drugs...they took any sense of my being totally away from me! Now, a few bandages, a belly band, and some pain still haunt me..........as well as my poor black and blue arms from all the needles( I am A JUNKY....hahhhahhaa)!!! All in all...I am GREAT for what I endured!!!!!
I AM blessed with wonderful family being here for me, from afar or close; being supportive for me now and in this awesome new future that is before me; ALL the prayers and love I have received and KEEP receiving; a wonderful husband who is soooo excited for me and OUR new life together; and kids who know I will be here for THEM!!! I am BLESSED I woke up after the surgery (completely in la la land)....and that I had an AWESOME surgeon who did what I needed and then SOME!!! The blessings WILL keep coming, and it is sooo hard to keep thanking GOD for them...hard in a humbled way!!! I will NOT stop thanking him!!!
Thanks to my GROUP of BMI new friends, for we will ALWAYS have this incredible bond between us of friendship and support! It was wild to take our hourly strolls through the hospital and visit as we all shared the same BOND of surgery and wellness! So GREAT to know we are all going through the same things!
Ok.....so there ya have it....my week so far! Life is good.....feeling a bit more human and like myself, and soooooo excited to see what each week comes!
Thanks for loving me soooooo much...it means EVERYTHING to me!
Love and God's RICHEST Blessings to you,
Linda
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