I was sitting in the chair minding my business and I felt something weird itchy feeling. I decided to check my incisions cause why not. Did I tell you the incisions are set up like a baseball diamond with all the bases and a left outfielder who is admittedly not as far out in the field as he should be, I am not the coach so this time we will let it ride. Home base is having the glue lift up. The incision looks healed. I don't think I have to worry about splitting open and having things get gory..
Today had a lot of first's for me as a post surgical patient or someone recovering from surgery. . A tiny summer squash from the garden had been picked and hubby surprised me with a bowl of boiled summer squash with a hint of butter for breakfast.. Surgeon said I should practice chewing these next 2 weeks so this seemed very fitting way to start. We did giggle a little that it seemed sneaky cause technically I have to wait a few more days before solid stuff. I am getting the hang of chewing. I thought I had learned that long ago as a child but there is always opportunity to learn to do things better. Also relearning to drink fluids. Again something I figure I had graduated with the appropriate knowledge when my mother stopped giving me a sippy cup. Wrong. The thing to learn in this situation is to hold fluid a half hr before meals until a half hr after meals. The rest of the time is sip fluids slowly. So how much is to much?, how much is to little?. I learned the hard way that a couple of gulps is the wrong way.....chest pain is the tip off that I goofed. Small sips equal not getting enough liquid in a day. Oh its a dance, or in homage to the Olympics a bit of a balance beam routine. Some some told me sip,1000, sip 2000........ then stop for a bit. So far that seems to work the best.
Egg salad seems to be the best of salads, tuna is a no. Bye bye tuna salad unless its had lots of mayo...but doesnt that defeat the diet aspect of this journey? I was able to drive myself to Keene, I feel like such a grown up despite my child like food portions and food consistency. Funny thing about abdominal surgery you don't realized the muscles involved until its to late. It actually dawned on me today that I am actually starting to stand up straight.
Today's trip to Keene was to go to the phone store and get the upgrade that was due. Rest of us were also due so it was a volume new phone day. Hubby and I now have the same phone. different covers. I have the girlie pink cover and he has the manly black. I think this is great because as we get in age hopefully we will each remember something different about the phone so together we can be one knowledgeable person. The boys went and got lunch at the near by Burger King while I finished the phone business and waiting for my phone to have its contacts etc transferred over. Donated the old phone. The boys brought me a chocolate shake. So decadent. The part that struck me funny, not ha, ha, but interesting was the fact the shake was a small and I could only manage half of it. I remember the day, not so long ago where I would order a large enjoy it and still want more. I do marvel at the change in attitude, behavior toward food and some other things. I will admit that when I got home I pretty much crashed. Was very happy to sit and veg in the chair the rest of the day.
Til the next time,...
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