It's funny how hard it is to post anything post-op. I'm healing very well. The surgeons are tickled pink with my mobility and the speed with which I've returned to normal gastric function. I'm taking the oral replacement cortizol and aldosterone and expect to start seeing my blood pressure shift so I can drop all that medication. In the ( Read more... )

TA-DAH!!! I'm up! Literally. I have returned to my 5-NW room, having gotten VERY slowly out of the ICU bed and walking to the wheelchair. I'm on a lovely cocktail of chemicals and have a morphine button for when I cough or flex my tummy unintentionally. I'm a little wonky, so this'll stay short and sweet ( Read more... )

Greg got checked into the Saffra Family Lodge this morning. Mom checked in this evening. I'm finishing up my pre-surgery abdominal prep with a clear liquid diet all day and nothing by mouth after midnight - about an hour and a half from now ( Read more... )

*contented sigh* I'm bushed, but it is definitely the good sort of after-a-pleasant-activity sort of fatigue. I had a Tylenol just before I left at 2:00, and Beth and I walked for twenty minutes around to the west of the Clinical Center through what she calls the convent area and then in the old front doors in the Magnuson hospital, opposite the ( Read more... )

Ahh... Hyper and giggly with the 6-o'clock dose, but by 1:00 I was droopin' and muzzy and bleh from the noon one. Uh, my back hurts. Just got out of the shower, finally finding time to indulge, and I'm set to meet the gym lady at the front desk for an outside warm-up walk and then fifteen minutes or so in the gym. Then... I think I'll nap. We' ( Read more... )

Whee! Still zinging along! I did deliberately shut down at a quarter to three, turned out the light and consciously relaxed, focusing on my breathing, sending positive warm fuzzy gratefulness up to God and *blip* - I don't remember anything until I popped awake at 6:00 with the arrival of my dexamethazone dose ( Read more... )

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My goodness... Yep, I was right. They gave me the 2.0 mg dose this morning at 6:00 and doing the stairs at 7:00 was slow, wobbly, and my arm exercises made me ache after just a few, rather than just the last ninth and tenth ones. I did it all, though I didn't go clear up to the sixth floor and back to home at fifth. Like, mmm, Thursday? I'd go ( Read more... )

*giggle* I'm irrepressibly cheerful today. Lovely day. In spite of all sorts of things going on, but, y'know, I think it is BECAUSE of all the activity. The morning started with me a little late to my pelvic MRI. I hadn't any clean panties and laundry finished up just before I dashed off for radiology. LOL ( Read more... )

Whee... It' shortly before 10:00 and I really should get to sleep. I typed "bed" there, to start, because I'm actually in another empty patient room because my computer decided not to connect to the network this morning when I turned it on, and rebooting, double-checking the cables didn't fix it ( Read more... )