Wow 2 months already!

Well I made it through surgery today. I should probably mention that I a, 5'10", 200# and 45. I am fit and feel happy at this weight which i have maintained for well over a year following weightloss. i have had 3 pregnancies Things went very well. I am significantly more comfortable than I had anticipated. I am beginning to feel a little burning here & there maybe at my incision, but just in little spots. It seems like the ouch is much higher than where the incision is though...so I'm not too sure.


What I am sure of is that I have good meds and the pain pump is very helpful.


This has been the first time i have awakened after surgery & haven't been completely nauseous and I can hardly describe how happy I am about that! I did have a little queasiness when I took my pain meds a couple of hours ago, but the sublingual zofran took care of it.


My pain is about a 3 with spots of 4 that are transient.
I am looking forward to my lift recliner tomorrow, as getting up is the most challenging right now. Once up though, I have been able to walk (slowly & in kind of a skiers position) down the hall twice in the last 4 hours or so. (50 feet or so) I tried to be up for 10 minutes but I got a little woozy or queasy since I had just had meds...made it 8 or nine though :)

PO Day 3 and things are going very well. I am still walking up & down the hallway ( probably scaring other patrons staying here, lol) but doing so much more upright than before. I am trying to stretch my med doses to 6 hours but that last half hour gets a little challenging. My first post op visit (Tuesday, 2/5) went well, but it was uncomfortable to be in the office chair and I was pretty well wiped out afterward...the swelling hit and oh my, that's uncomfortable.
However, I would still say I am much more comfortable than I had anticipated being prior to surgery. TMI ALERT...Today I had my second successful bm, not fun but glad to have it done. I also had a bit too much sodium at lunchtime and boom. More swelling! It's a steep learning curve. Mostly I have been eating whole foods, low sodium home made soups and protein shakes. I feel pretty darn good. As a tall girl, I love my toilet riser and my lift recliner, they make all the difference. I have been experiencing weird twinges and tinglies around my bell. They don't hurt but they feel sort of odd. I believe my little pain pump is empty now. It will be removed at my second post op tomorrow and I will be very glad to lose the little fanny pack, I'm looking forward to nothing hanging around my middle. My left drain is a super producer compared to the right. I have no fantasies about losing either of them very soon. So far they are tolerable. I am not down with the super swollen lady parts, but my incision is very low and I know it's just temporary.
Well...happy healing to all. Be well

Well today I had my second post op appointment. It went well. Dressing change, questions answered and empty pain pump removed. We had the only little glitch with recovery so far. When we got back to our room and I opted to get back into my jammies...I began to bleed from the site where they pulled my pain pump...which is a teeny tiny tube of barely any consequence but was located with the drains (of which I lost neither). I suddenly had fresh red blood running down my legs which alarmed my husband pretty efficiently. However. Thanks to RS, another member had described something similar to Niagara falls when she had her drains pulled. (Thank you!)
We called the nurse & doc had us apply some pressure (which I had already done) & it stopped right away. So everything is right back on track and now we know things are real clean there...it's all good
Here are a couple of pix. I am walking much more upright than before.