We'll skip all the annoyances that go with mandatory shared rooms and dealing with ghost-like surgeons who take hours and hours to cough up final discharge orders and focus instead on the simple pleasures of being home where it is cool and dark and quiet and minks happily make miso soup at the drop of a hat ( Read more... )

I got out of surgery about 2:30 pm Monday and I was completely miserable/out of it/exhausted until about 9am Tuesday morning. I'm happy to report that I'm able to talk/walk/do everything I could before surgery, aside from being tired and sore. No firm plans as yet, but I wouldn't be surprised if I came home Wednesday.

This is Baba_O_Reptile (one of GenKitty's spice ;) posting for GenKitty in the hospital, reporting from bedside ( Read more... )

Sooooo... When last I reported, we thought I had two lumps in my brain and I was planned to undergo more tests and we'd get this all figured out right? Right. Wrong! But that's the long story, which I may someday share ( Read more... )

So it's been a month and a half since surgery. 3 of the 4 incisions healed without issue, but the 4th turned out to not want to heal, and spit gouts of blood instead. :P I got bounced to the local Center for Wound Treatment where they've been stuffing the incision with silver-treated collagen wafers. My body apparently likes silver a whole lot ( Read more... )

I'm mostly 'fine' now, for various values of 'fine', but it was a rather traumatic weekend ( Read more... )

As far as I'm concerned, aside from a little lingering fatigue and not wanting heavy things laying on my stomach, I'm completely back to normal (minus the annoying parts of having a uterus). I healed way ahead of the curve, for which I am immensely grateful. I'm left with an interesting array of scars and a wealth of hard won knowledge/experience ( Read more... )

Well, so much for the 6am wakeup idea, and so much for walking. Best laid plans and all that. Insomnia's still being annoying, but it particularly kicks in when I have to be somewhere the next day. Strain on abdomen muscles caused me to curtail my walking plans, fatigue has laid waste to 6am wakeup calls. It's still early in my recovery, ( Read more... )

Life progresses normally. Completely off painkillers now as far as my abdomen is concerned. I had a few days of good sleep, but the insomnia is back. Starting today I get up @6am on 'workdays', with a suitable bedtime to match. I really need to get my body back into work hours NOW so that I can hit the ground running when I'm cleared for ( Read more... )

Yesterday was bad. Got off-schedule with my pain meds, slept badly, and hormones rioting. Today is better. Good sleep, back on-schedule with meds, and I just took my first unaided shower. Okay, quasi-shower, washing the important bits ( Read more... )