Hello kandr
I am glad you are home from the surgery now. I trust all went well with it? I sure hope so. I am sure there is still a lot of tenderness, but it will pass pretty quickly. The initial swelling subsides and any pain really will come as movement occurs.. walking will be baby steps for a few days!
Were you given a binder? This helped me a GREAT deal as I recouperated fromm various surgeries in the abdominal area. Another thing that helped a great deal while I was in the 'laying down mostly and resting' stage was to make sure I spent concentrated time for like 15 minutes at a clip and ten times a day or so doing the exercises I had been advised to do: wiggle toes, bend feet forward, raise knees up slowly, lower slowly, stretch head up, lower slowly. That kind of stuff. It keeps blood flowing properly. It is super important for the lower extremities so that we don't feel like we have no sea legs when getting up for the bathroom and such.
Kandr, I know, I know, how miserable it can feel when first coming home from surgery. After the limb-saving surgery, I had to lay in a bed in the middle of the living room for three months. Like being in a jail cell with no walls sometimes. It is easy to fall into melancholy during times like this. TV got boring pretty quick, so I concentrated on those exercises to pass the time. It made me feel like I had accomplished something in my day to help myself. I was alone most of the day as the adult kid was working and my daughter was in school and my second son was in school way far away in Cleveland. Hubby was working nights so he was sleeping all day. The visiting nurse was a higlight in my day each day in the beginning when she came to visit! She wouild change the bandages, then just hold my hand and talk to me, counsel me, tell me little stories about her other patients. Those visits sure were special.
It is good that you are able to access the computer and communicate with friends online. I was not able to do that as my surgery was from breast to knee and I could not sit up. Actually, when I was able to sit and use a computer finally, I discovered the most wonderful chat room that did so much to hellp me! I met wonderful people on it. Not enough money to pay me to use a chat room today as so many are infiltrated by coo-coos. However, 10-11 years ago, the rooms were very different and calm and caring abounded. I am so glad I came upon this site in my last crisis in life. Sometimes I regret I can not have more personal communication with some of my friends here, but then again, by not being able to, I can be so totally honesy, totally, and not have any reservations. That is a good thing, too.
You will be feeling better really soon, kandr. Yes, you will. The long part of this recuperation is not painful so much as agonizingly slow because the total healing of the surgery is slow and it is merly movement that causes the pain. Work hard at remembering that every day you are getting stronger and better. Whatever pain that must be endured for now is okay because it is part of the process to eliminate altogether the pain in that area for good! Just like withdrawaing from drugs... sometimes we have to become more sick in order to finally get better.
Take care. I will be back to say howdy-do tomorrow.
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