Day 9 post op

Just checking in.

This is such a slow going recovery. Getting liquids in has become a little easier. I was able to get in 50 oz yesterday and 50g of protein.

So I've been doing ok until today. I've had the worse gas all day and nothing seems to make it better. Not mylanta chewables, not walking, nothing. Its made it really hard to get my fluids in today. I feel like I'm pregnant with a gas baby. I've named him Oxnardo. My husband and I went grocery shopping today and I felt like a pregnant lady. I was holding my tummy or my back and sort of bouncing up and down while i hold my tummy. Nothing I do is making it go away today. I have all the discomforts of a pregnant lady. Soreness, gas, back pains, swollen ankles, sleeping like crap, etc. My wounds seem to have gotten worse after I got home. My stomach got all swollen and bruisey and got worse looking. But now it finally looks like its going down and getting better. Which I'm very happy about.

Today for the first time since before surgery i slept in my own bed!! My back has been killing me from the couch so I said ugh let me just lay on my bed and see what happens. Well it felt SO good! so i took some pain killers and took a nice nap on my bed. Oh my lanta. what a nice nap. i rubbed my blankets on my face, it was so comforting. i got this feeling of...i'm back, everything is back to normal, only i have my sleeve! that thought brought me so much joy. of course everything isn't back to normal yet. i still have more healing to do. but i got a glimpse of what its gonna be like and i can't wait. of course i still can't sleep on my side.

i am praying that by friday or the weekend at the latest one of 2 things will happen. A. the gas (aka. Oxnardo) will be gone OR B. I'll be able to sleep on my side. So please lord let one of those 2 things happen!!!

Also Friday I can start full liquids. :) I went to whole foods and bought a bunch of lovely cream soups and greek yogurt. :) I'm looking forward to having some yummier foods. hopefully getting protein in will become a lot easier.

oh and my one week post op visit was yesterday. everything went well. my doc told me it was ok to shower and get the tape wet and even soap it up. so for the first time i actually stood in the shower and took a full on shower, even soaped up the incision sites. it felt nice to shower :)

here's a pic of me when i got home (not bad at all)

then I started to swell and bruise

and today the swelling is going down and the bruises are worse but going down