Trying to get the glue out of your hair and other things about hysterectomy recovery

[trainlady]

Hi my friends,
I am three weeks on the mend and am getting much, much stronger! My surgery was without any complications. I was in the hospital for three nights.
Everything came out as I had endometriosis on my uterus and cervix, one ovary was swollen and one stuck to my intestines.
I was very drugged and have little memory of surgery day. The last thing I remember saying was "oooohhhhhhhh, it's getting blurry" after the anesthesiologist saying he was going to give me something to "calm me down!"
I have ne memory of being taken to the operation room, no memory of the recovery room and then foggy memories of waking up later in my hospital room. Those were some GOOD drugs!
I was on vicoden until two nights ago, slowly weaned off them and was very, very sleepy , woozy and loopy on them.
Mom stayed with me during the day the first week as I couldn't walk without assistance. I can walk just fine now though still slowly and not far.
I am up to one block on my daily walk! Whooppee!!!!!
I had 15 staples across my lower abdomen and they came out after a week.
I was not able to read until just last week, 10 minutes of trying to read a book would put me to sleep so I watched a lot of TV and movies.

I cannot really see my incision very well because I am still swollen above it so I have to press my belly down to see it and THAT hurts.
Just last week my steristrips were removed and, well, everything felt sticky down there......
I spent TOO long in the shower tring to get all the glue out of my hair down there!
YES, You can laugh, it was as funny as it sounds!!!
My mom calls a little later and asked what I was doing and I told her "I was in the shower trying to get all the glue from the steristrips out of my hair down there!" Well, mom was just roaring in laughter and I was trying not to as it, at that point, still hurt to laugh.......... (Or sneeze, cough or hiccup)
We were joking about needing "goop be gone" from Home Depot to get the glue out when Mark walked in the bedroom. All he heard was goop be gone and said he had some and what did I need it for??!!!!!!!!
Well, both mom and I were dying then!!!!

Then, another day last week I tried to shave my legs. I was still dopey and, YES, I am using that as my excuse.
I sat down in the shower and carefully but quickly shaved my legs. I did not want to get stuck sitting on the shower floor and not be able to get up. I might also mention I am blind as a bat without my glasses.
I also needed to shave my legs because I didn't want to end up looking like one of my friends on Family Corner who didn't shave her legs for a long time. I will not mention her name but it starts with M and she lives in Australia........
Anyhow, I get out of the shower and am puttiin lotion on my legs and they still felt fuzzyhairy. I had shaved my legs with my pink Daisy razor with the cap still on it!!!!!

I still have hairy legs and don't really give a hoot!!

And then the other thing was my bed always felt crumbly because that's where I lived two and a half weeks.
The past three days I have sat outside, which feels good and then a nap in the affternoon and more TV in bed.
I ate a lot of cheez-its because that is what I was craving...........more on the next one

[trainlady]

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....................and so my body had orange crumbs and gunk (probably glue) stuck to me all over!!!
One day something was itching my back and it turned out to be one of those cute little confetti things you put in cards!!! Beware, we have an FC friend who has confetti for ANY and ALL occasions!!!!!!

The next three weeks will be resting still but not 24/7 in the bed. I will walk a little further everyday. I still cannot clean, lift, etc. (Surgery DOES have it's little blessings!)

I have communion brought to me every Sunday by a friend from church and that has been really nice.
I plan on going back to church Easter Sunday.
In the Catholic tradition we "give up
something" for Lent!
Well, since my surgery was done in the season of Lent I have told all my friends I have "given up" my female body parts!!!!!!
LOLOL!!!!!

I have had a couple teary nights with realizing the finality of it all of not being able to have children but then I couldn't have children anyway, but it still hurts the heart a bit.
I am on a very low dose of estrogen as I am now in menopause.
I will be crying happy tears in April when my first period is due and I DON"T have to go thru all the monthly pain! That will be a joy!!
There are NO tampons in my house!!!!

I want to thank all of you dear friends who flooded me with cards, tea, bookmarks, Dove chocolates, a Women of Faith book and Godiva chocolate covered pretzels!! Your love and prayers overwhelmed my heart!!

You are the greatest friends ever!

Here's my new bod!!!!

Love, train

[ellenmelon]

Train!!! How hilarious and I am so glad it is on the recovery side now! also good to hear you in up spirits. It was a long wait for us here to hear from you! But it was worth the long wait!

Spring is coming here too so being outside is so nice then isn't it?

[Bunny]

I am so glad that you are feeling better and that you can joke about things I had my hysterectomy 38 years and it took me about 3 months to do any thing sure hope that you are well soon

[Lee]

Train, Your a funny girl! Bet Marks face was red when you told him what you were talking about!!

I dont function well on Vicoden either, makes it feel like your a zombie and can do nothing but sleep. I dont understand how people can WANT to feel like that.

I can completly understand how you feel sad, I think thats perfectly normal. You know from getting to know you here at FC I think you would make a great foster mom. You are such a kind loving human being.

Take Care Sweetie!

[barbszy]

Train, you are TOO funny!!! I'm glad your recovery went well and your sense of humor survived intact

[debknechtel]

Donna my goodness I am sitting here laughing so hard I had to get up and go to the bathroom. Poor Mark guess he had no idea what he was asking. I am so glad to hear that everything went well and that you are able to look at it all with some humor. I think that sadness is totally understandable. Hope the coming days continue to get better and that you will soon feel like yourself.

Thinking of you

Hugs debbie

[danstigerangel]

Donna---Your story really made me laugh.

I was so happy to see a post by you. I hadn't been on here in awhile and I was wondering where you went. Then I saw some other posts and found out.

Great to see you back. I hope you feel better and better every day.

Hugs to you.

[megrayau]

Donna it is soooo good to have you back. I love your retelling of your experiences. I love even more your hairy leg story ~ hmm, maybe we can take the heat off someone elses legs! LOL

Let the tears and sadness happen too. Tears can be healing as well. Did you know that God keeps our tears in a bottle? How precious is that? Not one is wasted!

I bet Mark is glad to have you moving around and doing stuff.
Take it easy sweetie.

[megrayau]

Sorry about that squishy hug Donna, I put the wrong one in and can't get it to change! I didn't mean to squish you, cos that would hurt too much!