the news...
i will be returning to work on sunday-my first noon pizza in over two months. jerrad orginally scheduled me for sunday noon, monday and wednesday nights, but i told him i was going to try my full schedule and see how it goes, but to have back-up for me in case its too much for me on tuesday. my only paycheck for november, will be on the 21st. the check will be for a full two week work schedule, so i'll just get around $489 for the month of november.
as for my health, in terms of how i feel, if i forget to take my vitamins i notice more abdominal muscle aches. i dont know why it seems that way, i dont really think i'm doing too much more on those days, but on the other hand, i'm busy enough to forget the vitamins.
my wound is only 1/4 of an inch deep, and it looks like i have a second off-center belly button. there has been no drainage from it, and it causes me no discomfort. i no longer pack gauze into it, and am trying to just cover the area with gauze and tape. i have, however, developed this hard lump just to the right of my wound area, on my right side. i had been aware of this area for a while, but put it down to everything involved with being on the wound vac, assuming it was a combination of my own scar tissue and being stuffed with pieces of foam, so i didnt think too much about it. now however, i think it is a combination of the hard scar tissue, and trapped liquid from a seroma. according to what i read online, this can happen with surgery that removes a lot of tissue, for example tummy tucks and masectomys. obviously a hysterectomy falls in this category, and having seromas is what led to me draining and being on the woud vac. with an "enclosed" seroma you simply wait for your body to re-asorb the fluid, it can take weeks to a year. i will monitor it, from what i read, if it gets so swollen as to cause discomfort, it has to be drained by the doctor-they try to avoid doing so because of possible infection. it only causes me notice now and then, its just odd to feel this palm-sized hard mass, it is not painful, but i really need to leave it alone.
i am ignoring the voice that keeps wondering if its cancer again, i know it isnt.
i am supposed to go in for a routine pap smear end of december, i'll wait until then unless things get bad for some reason. :)
as for my health, in terms of how i feel, if i forget to take my vitamins i notice more abdominal muscle aches. i dont know why it seems that way, i dont really think i'm doing too much more on those days, but on the other hand, i'm busy enough to forget the vitamins.
my wound is only 1/4 of an inch deep, and it looks like i have a second off-center belly button. there has been no drainage from it, and it causes me no discomfort. i no longer pack gauze into it, and am trying to just cover the area with gauze and tape. i have, however, developed this hard lump just to the right of my wound area, on my right side. i had been aware of this area for a while, but put it down to everything involved with being on the wound vac, assuming it was a combination of my own scar tissue and being stuffed with pieces of foam, so i didnt think too much about it. now however, i think it is a combination of the hard scar tissue, and trapped liquid from a seroma. according to what i read online, this can happen with surgery that removes a lot of tissue, for example tummy tucks and masectomys. obviously a hysterectomy falls in this category, and having seromas is what led to me draining and being on the woud vac. with an "enclosed" seroma you simply wait for your body to re-asorb the fluid, it can take weeks to a year. i will monitor it, from what i read, if it gets so swollen as to cause discomfort, it has to be drained by the doctor-they try to avoid doing so because of possible infection. it only causes me notice now and then, its just odd to feel this palm-sized hard mass, it is not painful, but i really need to leave it alone.
i am ignoring the voice that keeps wondering if its cancer again, i know it isnt.
i am supposed to go in for a routine pap smear end of december, i'll wait until then unless things get bad for some reason. :)