get better

There are still a few little achy moments around the incisions when I’ve been working my stomach muscles and some pants that hit right at the belly button (incision) that I’m not willing to wear yet, but I am SO much better that I am ready to mark this done and move on to more interesting goals.

I am, however, a little miffed that my sweet round bellybutton was messed up by the incision. It’s like a little slit now. [pouts] Guess I’m not going to show it off too much anyway…

I still get this creepy ache around the incisions when I do much exercise. I am frustrated not to have done yoga for such a long time…maybe I’ll try my most gentle yoga DVD today.

Yesterday Hydra and I hiked for the first time in weeks. Lost some ground there, but it’ll come back.

I want to do crunches again! Never thought I’d say that, ever ever ever, but really not being able to do something makes you (or me, anyway) appreciate it. I was doing quite a lot of ab work right before surgery.

I don’t look like her, but I have these pants!

In spite of the writer’s strike, my clients have managed to send a lot of last minute work and stuff that doesn’t involve writing. I worked 10 hours straight yesterday and it was really exhausting.

Worked a regular 8 hours today but I sort of hit the wall about 2 hours earlier.

Getting better, but I am still not tolerating much of an array of foods. I don’t really get how I am hanging onto weight with the small amount of calories I’m taking in. Maybe it’s that thing about the body going into starvation mode… sigh.

So tomorrow I’m going to work from home, cutting out the commute.

I am only working 5 1/2 hours today. Glad of that. Can still feel the incisions, but it’s not acute at all. Not too tired, but I’m glad I’m leaving now!

Today I felt really pretty good…like I’ve leaped forward in my recovery! Markedly better than yesterday.

The worst thing was the shivery tug of pain in my abdomen when I stretched as I woke up.

Intestinal indignities (thanks for the term Colleen CC) continue as I try to expand my range of foods, but this I can deal with.

Good thing I’m not back at work. I’m soooo tired. But it was good puddling around Palmdale with my mom. Even had lunch out, a salad.

to sit up straight in a chair again. The incisions ached after a few hours of doing this yesterday. But just ached. Didn’t bite!

Every day a little better. Right now I am actually sitting with my legs crossed under me for the first time since surgery. It’s weird how limited I felt the first three days, and how things just start being possible physically that I didn’t even consciously miss.

I did miss sleeping on my side until about two nights ago. Sleeping always on my back was as bad as about anything involved in this process. (Nothing was as bad as everything about having a drain tube, including it’s removal.)

We went out for dinner last night! (Hydra won some money at work last night…every year on your anniversary of starting there, you get to spin a Wheel of Fortune for a $100-$500 bonus; he won $300!) I had a little grilled trout and a plain baked potato, and everything went fine.

It wore me out, though. Sleeping on the couch by 8pm!

I have added “get my gall bladder removed.” I think it must be done. Sigh.

Well, the doc emailed to confirm my single kidney status. I should just get a blood test done a couple of times a year to monitor it’s function, it sounds like.

But she did say that she recommends I talk to a surgeon about gallbladder surgery (i.e. removal). Cripes. I figured I could stand a little misery.

Anyone had this? I understand that the laproscopic procedure is fairly simple.

The idea of it really really does scare me. It’s irrational I know, but it does. I’ll get used to the idea if I have to.