Ok, I’m probably the only one excited about this, but today, three weeks post hysterectomy, all of my incisions are now scab-free and looking awesome!! I just got out of the shower were the belly button incision (by far the ugliest and largest of the cuts) shed it’s scab! I have a {quasi-normal} belly button…
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Day 18 Post Op – Healing Incisions!
Last night, part of the scab on my belly button incision came off! I didn’t pull at it or pick at it or anything. I just pulled my pj’s down to look at my wounds and the bottom part just came right off. I was like EEK! But it’s fine. Another part in the “inner”…
Day 16 Post Op And Feeling Fine
I’m happy to say my two-week post hysterectomy day came and went and brought with it a nice relief from pain. My pain has changed from an all-encompassing deep ache to a more shallow general soreness. It’s much easier managed with ibuprofen and I went the entire day yesterday without a single painkiller. Just two…
I am ObamaCare
This is the ORIGIN of the “I am ObamaCare” picture. I’m the one who wrote it, photographed it and posted it on October 20, 2011. That’s me in the picture. This is my story. I never knew my simple “I am Obamacare” image would wind up all going viral on every corner of the web!…
Post Op Days 12 and 13
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…
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…
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 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…
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….
Last Pre-Surgery Weekend – 3 Days to Go
This weekend was the last before surgery. And since last week was so busy with appointments and since this week is busy with more appointments and well, surgery, we decided to try and have a little bit of fun. Saturday, October 1st was the 40th anniversary of the opening of Walt Disney World. I wanted…
5 Days and Counting – Hematologist Appointment
I had my hematologist appointment this morning at 10am. They said to get there early so I arrived around 9:45am. I didn’t leave until 11:50am. Holy crap, they’re slow! The doctor’s nurse and the doctor himself were both very nice. The nurse even gave me a hug and wished me well with my surgery. But…
Kidney Ultrasound
Well, so much for hoping they’d bill me. Receipt for your debit card purchase Amount $121.00 USD Merchant SDI DIAGNOSTIC Awesome. Thankfully, I’ve had a few sales in the shop lately, so I was able to use the money in my PayPal account to pay it. The tech said she didn’t see anything but that…