One week post op
Good morning everyone. Am very aware that I haven’t blogged during the last few days. I’ve been concentrating on recovery. Some days have been great - others have been not quite so great.
Lots of problems with referred pain - why on earth do you get pain in your shoulder blade after a laparoscopic procedure???? Makes no sense. Somebody will be clever enough to explain that to me.
Recovery is now going well, I think. Hoping to go out for a gentle stroll today.
Analgesia consists of paracetamol and ibuprofen, and I’m now trying to only take it when I think I need to.
Not enjoying the anticoagulant therapy - how many times have I shown women how to do this? Don’t like physically puncturing myself - utterly counterintuitive - especially when all the little puncture wounds from the surgery are now looking fearsomely bruised! And I shall be doing this until 2 days after Christmas!
Managed to get the Christmas tree in and up yesterday (delivered by Si Sparkes, and erected by Si) - I have draped some lights over said tree - but no decorating as yet - will ponder that today. ( None of my family have any enthusiasm for tree decorating - they never did - even as youngsters - I think they enjoy the finished article though. I learned many years back that when i put beautiful little ornaments in their stockings and expected them to run downstairs to artfully drape them on the greenery, it just wasn’t going to happen........ Ned tells me that I should not be putting my expectations on others’ shoulders. I used to find the gorgeous special Christmas morning stocking ornaments in their bedrooms many weeks later. 😔 )
We are just about out of essentials in the house today - yesterday’s supper was baked potatoes....... so I have managed a supermarket order to be delivered tomorrow morning - hopefully we’ll cobble together something for supper today.
Christmas crafting is developing, I am no good at sitting doing nothing - so after the tree arrival yesterday - and feeling a little bit as if I’d overdone it, I sat and binge watched Outlander for a few hours, crocheting my hyster-blanket........ I was on my own yesterday - Peter spent the weekend grandson-sitting in Somerset - Ned was busy too, so I had a chilled day, after my first foray into the outside world with Denys and John and Amy Ras, who took me out for supper on Saturday evening to out local Italian restaurant, which I am pleased to report is now in safe hands again, after sinking into a 1 Star rating in recent years. I told Peter that I’d gone out for supper, and he saw that Denys had tagged me (on Facebook) in Shirley at Lorenzo’s..... so he asked me yesterday who I’d gone out with - he thought I’d had supper with Denys, and Shirley and Lorenzo. 🙄
Pain management has been interesting. When I first came home, I was elated - felt so much better than I had expected to. The following day was a bit of a reality check - really quite sore.
My gauge has been how easy it is to wipe my bottom!! If I don’t think about it, it’s great - if I feel every stretch....not so good. (You might be wishing you hadn’t read this paragraph..... the mental image is disturbing, to say the least - no pictures - I promise)
My cousin’s wife Judy has a birthday today - HAPPY BIRTHDAY JUDY - said in my best Norn Irish accent....... it was also my brother Paul’s birthday on this day - so I’m thinking of him....lovely gentle soul that he was.
And now. I’m going to get on with my day - loads to do - but no important time frames - I know that I can stop whatever I’m doing at any point, and go and continue with the hyster-blanket (and how many more episodes of Outlander can I take????). First things first - open up my day 3 on my advent calendar .......
Thank you once again, to all my friends and family, who are sending thoughtful messages. My recuperation is going as expected. (Not that I knew what to expect!!!)
Lots of problems with referred pain - why on earth do you get pain in your shoulder blade after a laparoscopic procedure???? Makes no sense. Somebody will be clever enough to explain that to me.
Recovery is now going well, I think. Hoping to go out for a gentle stroll today.
Analgesia consists of paracetamol and ibuprofen, and I’m now trying to only take it when I think I need to.
Not enjoying the anticoagulant therapy - how many times have I shown women how to do this? Don’t like physically puncturing myself - utterly counterintuitive - especially when all the little puncture wounds from the surgery are now looking fearsomely bruised! And I shall be doing this until 2 days after Christmas!
Managed to get the Christmas tree in and up yesterday (delivered by Si Sparkes, and erected by Si) - I have draped some lights over said tree - but no decorating as yet - will ponder that today. ( None of my family have any enthusiasm for tree decorating - they never did - even as youngsters - I think they enjoy the finished article though. I learned many years back that when i put beautiful little ornaments in their stockings and expected them to run downstairs to artfully drape them on the greenery, it just wasn’t going to happen........ Ned tells me that I should not be putting my expectations on others’ shoulders. I used to find the gorgeous special Christmas morning stocking ornaments in their bedrooms many weeks later. 😔 )
We are just about out of essentials in the house today - yesterday’s supper was baked potatoes....... so I have managed a supermarket order to be delivered tomorrow morning - hopefully we’ll cobble together something for supper today.
Christmas crafting is developing, I am no good at sitting doing nothing - so after the tree arrival yesterday - and feeling a little bit as if I’d overdone it, I sat and binge watched Outlander for a few hours, crocheting my hyster-blanket........ I was on my own yesterday - Peter spent the weekend grandson-sitting in Somerset - Ned was busy too, so I had a chilled day, after my first foray into the outside world with Denys and John and Amy Ras, who took me out for supper on Saturday evening to out local Italian restaurant, which I am pleased to report is now in safe hands again, after sinking into a 1 Star rating in recent years. I told Peter that I’d gone out for supper, and he saw that Denys had tagged me (on Facebook) in Shirley at Lorenzo’s..... so he asked me yesterday who I’d gone out with - he thought I’d had supper with Denys, and Shirley and Lorenzo. 🙄
Pain management has been interesting. When I first came home, I was elated - felt so much better than I had expected to. The following day was a bit of a reality check - really quite sore.
My gauge has been how easy it is to wipe my bottom!! If I don’t think about it, it’s great - if I feel every stretch....not so good. (You might be wishing you hadn’t read this paragraph..... the mental image is disturbing, to say the least - no pictures - I promise)
My cousin’s wife Judy has a birthday today - HAPPY BIRTHDAY JUDY - said in my best Norn Irish accent....... it was also my brother Paul’s birthday on this day - so I’m thinking of him....lovely gentle soul that he was.
And now. I’m going to get on with my day - loads to do - but no important time frames - I know that I can stop whatever I’m doing at any point, and go and continue with the hyster-blanket (and how many more episodes of Outlander can I take????). First things first - open up my day 3 on my advent calendar .......
Thank you once again, to all my friends and family, who are sending thoughtful messages. My recuperation is going as expected. (Not that I knew what to expect!!!)
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