Mom to 5

March 14 Finally Getting Long Awaited MM - Phoenix, AZ

Shelly treadmill walking is much easier than returning to work full time! Holy cow I am impressed you have the energy for that! Today I did walk an hour on the treadmill and got 1/2 mile further than I did last week so slowly but surely I am feeling better but still hate sleeping on my back but can't sleep on side yet. So happy to have surgery behind me! This 4 weeks seems like overnight and forever all rolled into one!

Shelly, You are two days ahead of me so I always like comparing how you and I are healing. I have one of my stitches underneath my breast that kind of split open but it's not oozing so I need to call dr to see what they want me to do about it. I updated my blog with some pics last week. Yours look good. I was sorry to see you had a split on your stomach incision. That happened to me on my last c-sec my incision got infected about week 5 and opened up and I could have stuck a quarter in it. They didn't close it up they just let it drain and put me on antibiotics for a week and eventually it oozed and healed up about 3 weeks later. I hope you are getting your energy back. Slowly but surely mine is coming back. I now walk on the treadmill at a 1.8 mph pace (close to a 40 min mile.) I chuckle to myself but try and remind myself that a few weeks ago that 40 minute mile seemed impossible! Baby steps right? and I completely understand about the rollercoaster of emotions. Just know you are certainly not alone!! :)

I've had people ask me that same question (I also had 4 csecs) and just had my tummy tuck / breast lift/augmentation March 14. I tell people the pain is similar except this time around nobody was handing me a newborn baby to watch and I didn't have 4 other children to look after. I was off pain meds after a week (only because side effects of constipation etc were so bad) but there would have been no way I could have been off pain meds after a week with my c-sec because of the demand of caring for little children while trying to heal. My kids are now older (9,11,13,15,17) so it made getting plenty of rest much easier. Don't get me wrong, I would have loved to have more time on pain meds because at a week Tylenol and ibuprofen were not strong enough but if I layed down and didn't move and just rested it was tolerable. But the side effects were making me more miserable than dealing with the pain.

yea, I haven't been officially "cleared" either ;) . I do swell like crazy at the end of each day. Yesterday I hit 13,000 steps which was too much because at the end of the day I was miserable. It wasn't brisk walking or anything just the culmination of all the steps. I am def tired today. :/

Sorry I did not get pics up today as planned. Needed darn batteries for camera but I bought some so hopefully tomorrow I can get those up.