Mother of Six Finally Getting It Done - New York

Well today I am 12 days PO and had my second drain removed. I AM A FREE WOMAN!!!! Finally I am able to shower in the morning something I have not done in almost two weeks, which you dont realize is something required to feel human. However on the down side I was instructed to stay low for another week and continue with very minimal activity, what was he crazy I was free of course I was going to go crazy. Not a good idea, I feel like my, incision is bursting open and the spot where they removed the drain today, OMG. So my advice to everyone, dont think because you are feeling ok for a moment you can do everything use were used to before your tt because I can reasure you today after 3 tylenol I still am paying for it. But than again I did wear a fitting shirt today and there was no belly, I am in love!!!!!

Here I am 6 days post op and numb as hell, it seemed I was really doing great day 4 I was up moving around and doing things. Now the swelling and numbness has set in and Im back down for the count. I actually hit the breaking point yesterday when my husband was changing my bandages and broke down in tears. The thing that is getting to me the most, becuase I can deal with the pain, and i knew I wasnt going to look great for the first few weeks so Im ok with that too, its the inability to care for my children, especially my one year old special needs child. Her and I were inseperable and now she acts like she doesnt even know me. I want to pick her up so badly and i actually tried the one day and had to but her down immediatly, and I could tell it broke her little heart. That is my goal here is to able to hold my daughter without excruciating pain within the next week..............thats all I want!!!

Today is the end of post op day 2, and to be completely honest Im wondering what the hell I did this for!!! Everything is still so stinkin painful, the cathetar is still in and will be for another 3 days, which is just a whole other bummer. I got to see my new belly yesterday for a brief minute while the bandages were being changed, and well it didnt look all that good to me I am hoping it is just all the swelling going on, or the fact that I was high on pain meds, lol. The sites where the drains are in "Oh my god" they are the worst if you even touch them at all, instant stinging pain. I found out I will get my drains out, one at one week, the other at two weeks. Maybe its that I was so active prior to surgery and the sun is shiny out that I want to be able to get out of this recliner and move. I want so badly to hold my baby (she is almost one), I tried and she started moving around so my hubby had to take her, it was too painful for me. I really am just wishing the next week away so very quickly, and I hope by then I am back to some form of normal activites. At that point maybe I can say it was all worth it.