Mom of 4, all csections, 190

Yesterday I went and had my staples removed.. all 65 of em. Pinch by pinch. Ouch. He said everything is looking good. Healing well. I still have to wear the binder/Spanx for the next month or so. Moving around feels more comfortable so I attempted to sleep in my bed for the first time since the surgery. I slept awful. Idk what happened but my hip would ache so I would switch sides then back again. Idk. I'm thinking I'll go back to the chair tonight. I've now started to lube up my incision line with Vaseline which is helping with the dryness/itchy feeling. If I go run errands in the morning, I'll get pretty sore by the afternoon and will have to take some Tylenol, sit down and ice it for a little while. Swelling gets awful when I eat but I also suck at remembering to lower my portion sizes. Other than that, doing well. Driving, making Target runs, hitting the Starbucks, almost back to a functioning condition.

Omg ok, here we go. So yesterday I went for my appointment to get my drain out. Appointment didn't take long but let me tell you about this drain. So I lay down in the chair and she snips the stitch keeping the drain in place, right. Ok no problem. Then she says ok I need you to take a deep breath then I'm gunna yank it out. YANK?! Seriously? Yes. Ok so deep breath, and while it didn't "hurt", the best way I can describe it was pulling a wiggling 5ft snake out of my stomach in like .03 seconds. My next words were "Holy [RS bleep], I felt that all the way over on this side!!!
Ok that's done, I'm still laying there, doc comes in to tell me everything else looks good, blah blah blah. Puts the binder back on then as I stand up, blood comes pouring out of the drain hole. Apparently, that's normal. I just wasn't prepared for that.
So at this point I'm told I can go ahead and shower now (yay) and switch to Spanx and come back in a week to remove stitches.
In my eyes, I'm gunna go home, shower, put on Spanx I used to wear all the time before this operation anyway. The clouds were gunna open up, the sun was going to come out and I was going to feel so much better and more comfortable. Wrong.
Taking off the binder made me super lightheaded. I was honestly scared to shower. The Spanx that I had worn many times before were more painful than the damn binder. Stupid swelling. I'm a freaking mess. I honestly wondered if I should have went until day 8 instead.
Today, today sucks. I feel like I'm back at day 2. Can't sleep at night. No position is comfortable. I hurt like a mfer. I'm out of drugs. This was supposed to be my day of yay and instead I've cried more today than any other post op day. And the bruising looks awful.

So I've now began to set my alarm to remind me to get up and do a lap around the house every few hours. It's still not easy, I'm all hunched over. And after about 3 mins, I'm dizzy. But the weird thing is, I can just be sitting in my chair and feel dizzy out of nowhere. Not sure what that is about.
I tried to spread out my meds to the full 4 hours, already regretting it. I'm pretty sure I need to go back to staggering them every 3.
I took off most of the gauze pads under my binder bc the dried blood just felt like it was stabbing me.
Fluid keeps chilling in my tube instead of making it down to the grenade thing so a few times a day I help it out by squeezing it along. Not filing it more than 25ml? a day so looks like the end is near for that bad boy.
I feel completely helpless with all that chaos I hear outside my bedroom door but my little mini comas seem to help with the guilt. Lol. I also still have on these compression socks but why, I'm not sure.
I try to eat snacks/mini meals throughout the day but I feel like I get super full really fast. Ok so I took a few pics of what things look like under the binder today. Looks like I got my butt whooped but you should see the other guy. Lol. Oww... ok don't laugh at your own jokes.