One Week and a Day
Well, I'm doing great. Much better than I thought.
I get tired, and I knew I would, but I don't think I really understood what that would feel like. It's not like a sick tired, like when you have a fever. It's more like a tired you get after donating blood. Like my body is occupied elsewhere.
I have trouble focusing sometimes. I have a rather short attention span. The blog entries I've been doing take a while. I'll type for a bit and save them and then come back to them later.
I try to read, but I can't get more than a page or so. Magazines are good and reading the papers online. I've tried watching movies but I can't really do that for more than an hour yet. Sitcoms and cartoons are about my speed. I have to be careful with things like The Daily Show though, funny hurts.
My incision is healing well. My pubic hair is growing back and it itches at this point. I know it'll only be a few more days and it'll be fine. The bruises from the operation that are around the incision site and those on my arms where I had the needles are also fading nicely.
I take maybe two super Ibuprofen a day. My bowels are back to normal and I pee pretty regularly (actually, I'm still peeing about as much as I did before, but without that burning pressure I used to get because of the fibroids).
Thursday next week is my first appointment and I'm hoping to get some restrictions lifted then. I don't think I'm ready to drive right now. Hell, I've only been out of the house once to go to the back yard. I certainly couldn't drive right now unless it was an emergency.
I'm spending a lot of time online. I chat with friends on instant messenger. I blog things. I read website and stuff.
I also spend a lot of time at a website called HysterSisters.com - it's a bulletin board for women planning or recovery from a hysterectomy. They have lots of great info but mostly it's just seeing posts from other women who are going through the same thing. It's good to see real life examples - I like to find folks that are most like me to see how things are going for them four weeks or four months ahead of me.
Right now it's lunch time and my husband is making me a sandwich. I think I'll eat that now. I have no appetite but I've been eating anything he puts in front of me because I know I need to. I'm losing weight, about two or three pounds since surgery. One of those was what they took out.
Posted by Elizabeth M. on August 13, 2004 01:26 PM
