hrm
so I have 4 lovely square shaped rashes around my inscisions. due to the bandages (paper tape with saran wrap like clear plastic over the top of gauze) they used to cover each one. well hell, found another allergy I didn't know I had. hrmph.
I had to leave that on for 3 days after my surgery and it was driving me INSANE because it itched really bad. so on Saturday when I could finally take them all off, I did. only to discover that 2 of the inscisions hadn't healed properly so I ended up recovering them with a fabric "latex-free" square bandages. Which... just... resulted in a worsening rash. stupid skin.
I dunno how long I am supposed to be in evil pain. but my stomach is still sore. mostly when I get up from a laying down position. and my lower back hurts. and one of my inscisions is still kind of open. it only developed a scab around the edges. so I'll be covering it back up again. I uncovered it to let my skin breathe a bit.
I have this little.. bump. on the inscision right beneath my chest area. where the skin came back together. I suppose this means I'll have a scar. it's weird, I keep pushing on it. uhm ow? stop that, you moron.
so I keep thinking about the surgery and how "whooooooooosh" it seemed to go by (for me, not my parents who were waiting in the waiting area)... it's so weird. cause it felt like 10 minutes to me from the time they put me under (which I so don't remember) to the time the nurse was talking to me to wake me up. (apparently it was so not 10 minutes, but more like 3 hours). and it seems surreal in a way, like it didn't really happen. even though obviously (points at inscisions on tummy) it did. I dunno. I am just rambling. trying to figure out how I got through it all without a single panicking moment. (which is like, so un... ME)
I go back to the surgeon for my follow up on the 21st. They gave me Vicodin for the pain but other than knocking me out, it hasn't done much for the actual pain. Though, I suppose sleeping through it is alright. Whatever.
I'm... yeah. gonna go get some more ice water, a banana perhaps. or maybe I'll just eat crackers and drink a 7-up. so far, (and I have been careful) the stuff I've eaten since surgery has not bothered me.. mostly cereal, bananas... chocolate pudding. yesterday I ate a turkey sandwich and my tummy was okay with that. and then I ate like half a bag of mini donuts and apparently my tummy was okay with that as well. >.<
can you put neosporin on a semi-open wound? just curious.
okay, really gonna go now.
♥ Steph
I had to leave that on for 3 days after my surgery and it was driving me INSANE because it itched really bad. so on Saturday when I could finally take them all off, I did. only to discover that 2 of the inscisions hadn't healed properly so I ended up recovering them with a fabric "latex-free" square bandages. Which... just... resulted in a worsening rash. stupid skin.
I dunno how long I am supposed to be in evil pain. but my stomach is still sore. mostly when I get up from a laying down position. and my lower back hurts. and one of my inscisions is still kind of open. it only developed a scab around the edges. so I'll be covering it back up again. I uncovered it to let my skin breathe a bit.
I have this little.. bump. on the inscision right beneath my chest area. where the skin came back together. I suppose this means I'll have a scar. it's weird, I keep pushing on it. uhm ow? stop that, you moron.
so I keep thinking about the surgery and how "whooooooooosh" it seemed to go by (for me, not my parents who were waiting in the waiting area)... it's so weird. cause it felt like 10 minutes to me from the time they put me under (which I so don't remember) to the time the nurse was talking to me to wake me up. (apparently it was so not 10 minutes, but more like 3 hours). and it seems surreal in a way, like it didn't really happen. even though obviously (points at inscisions on tummy) it did. I dunno. I am just rambling. trying to figure out how I got through it all without a single panicking moment. (which is like, so un... ME)
I go back to the surgeon for my follow up on the 21st. They gave me Vicodin for the pain but other than knocking me out, it hasn't done much for the actual pain. Though, I suppose sleeping through it is alright. Whatever.
I'm... yeah. gonna go get some more ice water, a banana perhaps. or maybe I'll just eat crackers and drink a 7-up. so far, (and I have been careful) the stuff I've eaten since surgery has not bothered me.. mostly cereal, bananas... chocolate pudding. yesterday I ate a turkey sandwich and my tummy was okay with that. and then I ate like half a bag of mini donuts and apparently my tummy was okay with that as well. >.<
can you put neosporin on a semi-open wound? just curious.
okay, really gonna go now.
♥ Steph