I know. I need to come up with better titles for these things. Sadly, pretty much all of my life right now is centered around healing from my surgery. So there’s not much to talk about that isn’t healing posts. LOL Probably getting boring. Sorry about that. Yesterday (day 12) my sister came over and…
Category: Hysterectomy
Post Hysterectomy Days 10 and 11
This weekend marked days 10 and 11 of my healing and recovery from my hysterectomy. Much remains the same. I’m still dealing with deep aches and pains around the incision sites (especially the one on the left which my doctor told me would be the one that hurt the most.) I’m begrudgingly still taking some…
Post-Hysterectomy Day 9
Had a hard time getting to sleep last night. Wound up being awake until like 2am. I haven’t been up past about midnight since this all started. I was so exhausted from the outing to the doctor yesterday and I didn’t take a nap when I got home or anything but for some reason, I…
1st Post Op Appointment
Met with my doctor today for my first post hysterectomy appointment. I last saw him a week ago when I he checked on me in the hospital and cleared me for discharge. Everything is going fine, he took a look at my belly and laughed at me for my linty incisions. I told him I…
A Week And A Day (Post Op Hysterectomy Day 8)
Today I go in at 1:45pm for my first post-op appointment with my doctor. I don’t know exactly what they do at the appointment to check on my progress (ultrasound? exam?) but it’s good to get some less medicated face-time with my doctor. LOL The last time I saw him was the morning I was…
Flowers
Flowers that Love's parents brought me on Sunday. Forgot to post them until now. Hey in my defense, I have been on narcotics! 🙂 Aren't they colorful? Posted via email from memoryanddream’s posterous
Post Op – Day Six: A Bad Turn
Things were going well; progressing slowly but steadily forward until this afternoon. Today, I had a bad set back. There’s no way for this entry not to have some TMI but in order to explain what set me back, I need to explain what happened. Surgery of this nature leads to your bowels shutting down…
Post Hysterectomy – Day Five
Still hanging in there. Still swollen and sore. Weak but getting more mobility. Transitions continue to be easier. (Sitting to standing and standing to sitting.) Tried to cut back on my pain meds Saturday but it was too soon. That was a bad day pain wise until the percocet finally kicked in. Yesterday, I took…
Post Hysterectomy – Day Three
This is definitely going to be a longer, slower process than I realized. So many people reassured me that you feel so much better so quickly that I had let myself forget the severity of the surgery. This is MAJOR surgery. And there isn’t a part of my body unaffected by the process. Transitions are…
Day two
Sore. Weak. Cranky. Today is the day when I feel more like myself but when I notice how much I feel different and wrong too. Nose is stuffy but I can't blow it because it hurts too much. Left hand is swollen and bruised from needle sticks I don't even remember getting. My ribs ache…
Home
Was able to pee pretty early so I was able to be discharged around 11:30am. Came home and damn 3 flights of stairs were brutal. I was in so much pain! But I made it and laid down while Love went and got my pills. I slept for a few hours and that and the…
Day After
I am in my hospital bed and doing great. Surgery was delayed several hours because the one before me went long. So I didn’t get I’m until 3:00-4:00pm ish. Everything went perfect. Saw the do. This morning and I’m already off everythin (iv, catheter, oxygen etc.) soon as I can get up and pee on…
Today’s the Day
I’m getting ready to head out to the hospital. Still seems surreal. Love has my friend Rebecca’s mobile so he can text her when I’m out and she can update here. I’m not sure when I’ll be up to posting but you’ll hear from me again as soon as I’m able, I’m sure. (I AM…
Have Xanax Will Travel
Less than 24 hours to go. Getting more nervous as the day goes on. It feels so surreal to me that tomorrow I’ll be in the hospital. Like, I can’t truly wrap my head around it. And yet, I’m feeling more and more tense. I’m afraid I won’t sleep tonight so I called the doctor’s…
Officially Official – Pre-Op Appointments Complete
Just got home from my day of pre-op appointments. Had my final ultrasound and met with the doctor and then went to the hospital where I met with registration, a surgical nurse and then anesthesia nurse. After that, I ran to a nearby AAA location to get my will and health care directive paper notarized….