March 31, 2022 - Thursday


This recovery has been really hard. I had these lofty expectations of feeling almost back to normal after 2 days, but here I am on day 3 still feeling terrible. Getting up and sitting down are both incredibly painful, I've had terrible neck pain and headaches every day, I'm having very sharp, burning pain on the right side of my stomach at my incision sites, and I'm not sleeping well because of discomfort all night long. I'm pretty discouraged about it. I know it won't last forever. I know it'll be over before I know it. Oh, I also am blessed enough to be having my period right now. So much pain and discomfort and BLEEDING! Anyway, I'm not to the point where I would have done something different, had I known about the recovery. I just wish that recovery hadn't been so easy for everyone else I talked to about it but so hard for me. I was told that because it was also my gallbladder removal and the hernia repair that I should expect more time for healing, but I'm still sad about it. 

On the upside, my kids are completely loved and taken care of by my Marme and dad and Ben. They play, and snuggle, and eat, and have fun alllll daaaayyyyy long, while I lay around feeling sorry for myself. I did manage to stay awake for most of today. I only napped for an hour, so that is getting better every day! I'll just be praying for some relief from my pain tomorrow. 

Tonight we watched a movie on Netflix called Riverdance and the girls were obsessed. They spent 45 minutes after the movie watching Irish dancers on YouTube and trying to copy them. It was very cute. 



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