Back home again
I got to come home from the hospital yesterday. I was in there for a week exactly. I'm still sore and get tired really easily but I'm feeling a little bit better every day. My staple itch like crazy, but that just means they're healing. I have a drainage tube coming out of my side that hurts, but they gave me Vicodin & that helps a bit. I have to wear this stupid brace/elastic corset thing for the next month. It is made out of 4 wide bands of elastic and where each band meets the next hurts, itches, pinches, and rubs against my staples & drain. So frustrating, but the doctor said if I don't wear it I can essentially explode (gross) so that motivates me to deal with it. I've got 18 staples total, and look a bit like Frankenstein's monster, but I those removed next Wednesday. The hospital stay was terrible, and I could vent forever about shitty nurses and absolutely awful days, but I think most people have already heard it all by now. I'm just glad to be home, sleep in my own bed, take showers regularly, see my kitties and start working on healing and getting things slowly back to normal.