Felicity Q.
7 Days Post-Op
Oct 05, 2015
Today is a small milestone after my surgery on 9/28. One week down!
Last week at this time, I was sitting in pre-op (for 6 hours total) getting poked for an IV repeatedly. They finally got it on their 6th try?
How am I today, a week later?
I'm not quite sure. It's been one interesting week. Here are a few bullet points:
- My pain and nausea meds ran out Saturday morning and the prescription transfer didn't go through before the pharmacy closed... so 'white knuckling' the pain all weekend.
- My sense of smell is insanely sensitive.
- I don't like the taste of ANY of the 4 protein options I had available.
- Drinking 64oz a day is harder to do than I thought.
- I gained TWENTY POUNDS of water weight in the hospital. Holy cow!
- I can't seem to get comfortable (probably due to the 1st bullet point above).
- I am super irritable. Mostly towards my husband whom I feel has stopped being as supportive as he was pre-op. Now that I need him, he's nowhere to be found! I also somewhat blame him for letting my pain and nausea meds run out without having the prescriptions ready. How am I supposed to coordinate EVERYTHING while still healing? Ugh.
Today marks the first day of 'full liquids' and I am not sure if I am going to change much. I might experiment and try some cream or tomato soups a few days from now when I am feeling a little more healed.
