Post Surgery Update

Well, the deal is done. Came through surgery pretty well and am slowly healing. I went on my first outing yesterday to Walgreens and was exhausted and in a bit of pain by the time I got home. It is so funny how long it takes to regain your strength after something like this! I'm so thankful that my mom has been here to help out. She will be in town for another week and then my mother-in-law will be here to help for a couple of weeks.

So, a little realism right? Is that what you're waiting for? Skip the wonder woman "I'm doing great chat and get down to the honest truth" right?

Okay, let's see. In all honesty, my stay in the hospital was probably the worst one I ever had. Since I've only been in the hospital for two child births I don't have a ton of experience, but seriously, this hospital stay was not great. I was more than ready to come home! Coming home, my life has revolved around getting out of the chair, going to the bathroom, and lowering myself back into the chair. I have mastered the chair. The bathroom has been another story entirely. Let me just tell you that with a surgery like this, they pretty much have to remove your bladder and various other parts of your anatomy to get out the stuff that they are actually taking out. So you can imagine that when they put those necessary body parts back in they don't always land in the same place! Are you getting my drift here??? Basically, the bathroom has been the highlight of my day for a week now! Sad, but true!

I have only had a couple of days that I have truly felt like dog poop, so I am thankful for that. I have been in some pain, but I did just have my gut cut open, so I guess that is to be expected. So, all in all, I'm faring pretty well!

This week, I'm going to try small, one store outings lest I nut up being cooped up inside my house!

Insanity

That is my life right now - sheer insanity! Okay, maybe not that bad, but it has been really busy. I thought things would slow down once we got baseball and softball over, but it has just continued on.

We picked up my three nephews on Tuesday night and brought them back home with us and we have been living life large since they got here. On Wednesday we went to McDonald's for lunch and playing, then followed that up with almost three hours of jumping at Jump City. They were all wore out by the time evening rolled around and everyone slept in this morning. Let me pause here and let you know that I am completely irritated with myself because I forgot the camera!!! And, yes, I forgot the camera today also. Today we headed out to the aquatics center since we have no neighborhood pool and I'm too cheap to buy a membership anywhere! Everyone had a great time! We followed that up with a hair cut for me, a run through the pizza drive thru and then an ice cream run after dinner. Can you say "diet"? Yea, I need to go back on one! Tomorrow we are headed out to get groceries and run some errands and we are going to Chuck E Cheese with a friend. I know my brother is considering coming down a day early to get them just so that he can go to CEC!!! My parents will be here tomorrow night and then my brother and sil will be here around lunch time on Saturday. It has been a fun couple of days and I'm sure the weekend will be fun with everybody here.

We have started and, almost finished, another project. This first phase of the project should be done tomorrow night so I'm going to wait to post pictures so you can truly see the change from start to finish. Craig re-tiled our shower in our bathroom. It looks so good! He is so handy to have around!

With that being said, this might be my last blog post for several weeks as I am having surgery next week so I'm going to be out of commission for awhile. I hate to know that someone is having surgery and not knowing why so I will tell ya'll that I'm having a hysterectomy and leave it at that! Lift me and my family up in your prayers over the next few weeks. I've never had true, real life, put you out cold, kind of surgery and I'm a little nervous. I'm blessed to have wonderful friends and a wonderful mom and mother in law who will be helping out with things. I appreciate you gals so much!

It is now 10 minutes to one in the am and I am exhausted. I'm going to bed! 'Night all!