Last Thursday, TG, Hubs, and I loaded up the car and road tripped to Ohio, where Hubs’ brother and his family live. It was your typical midwestern journey with views of farmland for most of the drive. We even saw some windmill farms. Those were especially eerie at night. When …
I’d planned on doing weekly or monthly updates, but then with increased activity, life got in the way of my writing. Let’s catch you all up to date, shall we? Last we spoke, I’d been dealing with an opening at the intersection of my fleur-de-lis incisions. By Friday, May 10th, …
So yeah, it’s June and I just realized now that I forgot to post this several weeks ago. Oops! Sorry for the lack of updates. Next one will be long and bring you up to date. In week two, I’d made some bigly progress. My walks had lengthened from up …
April 21 – 23rd, 2024 Saturday night, I sweated through my clothes again. I think it was the acetaminophen in the Norco. I don’t know if this makes any real sense, but maybe I needed that so much the first couple of nights that I didn’t sweat, and now that …
It’s Friday after my TT on Tuesday. Drain update: I believe I mentioned that both drains would need to be putting out <40ml/24 hours for them to be ready to remove. . The right drain (which is collecting fluid from the horizontal incision) seems to be done, with less than …
Healing continues… In my last post, I forgot to mention one more medication (there are so darn many!): Enoxaparin, a blood thinner that I’m to inject subcutaneously for 7 days to prevent clotting. No one wants a DVT or PE, but dang if these things don’t give me bruises. Mind …
