9 days post op now and things are beginning to slowly improve. Pain wise I am still on the strong stuff but I intend to wean myself down to paracetamol in the next few days because I can't look after the kids properly when I am drugged up. Al is going back to work on sunday although Amy will be here to help me out, and he is off again on monday but back again on tuesday so I need to get myself going again and ready to take on the stresses of the kids single handed.
Al changed my dressings on tuesday because I thought I had a swelling on my tummy tuck line. It felt really good to have the dressings off even for a short time, and the swelling turned out to be MY HIP BONE !!! I knew it was hiding under there somewhere ! It just never stuck out before ! lol. All the old dressings came off without any ooze or bleeds on them. All clean and dry. I was amazed at how well I was healing ! I still am ! My nipples are quite tender to touch but I am just relieved that I can feel them because it's a complication that can happen that you don't have sensation from the nipples post op. Mine are nice a pink and healing nicely. The bruising under my left breast is pretty bad - black and blue and yellow. Where the bra presses on it is sore so I wore a dressing pad between the bra and the bruising yesterday to see if that helped. It didn't really so I am not bothering today.
I am trying to get some housework done today. The house is looking pretty bad and the washing is stacking up again. I hate that, so I assembled all the washing upstairs and have asked Al to bring it down but as yet he has not. Grrrr... I know that I cannot do it, and I won't even try to, but that just makes it more frustrating. I can't vaccuum either, but the house badly needs it. There are kids toys all over the place which I have tried to assemble in one place but the 2 little ones here keep picking them up and taking them back all over the house. I feel like King Canute !!
On a brighter note, although I put on a stone in fluid the week I was away ( I weighed 10st 11lbs on the day of the op, and by the saturday I was 11 st 10 :( ) I have been taking Frusemide to shift the fluid and this morning I am 11st 2 which is 8lbs off since saturday. My legs and ankles are still swollen but they are getting back to somewhere near normal. I put on a jumper dress today and a pair of leggings, and my profile is brilliant ! No tummy flap in the way, just smooth and straight ! I even have a cardigan on which is shorter than I am used to, and it looks great ! I don't have to pull it down to cover my bum or to cover my tum because I don't really have either anymore !! Oh happy day ! lol
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