Almost Time
I have two days until surgery.
I spent today getting all the items I'd need immediately afterwards to make my life a bit easier.
Gauze, pillows, vitamin E oil, arnica, coconut oil, water bottles, etc.
Tomorrow I go grocery shopping for the week (like usual for a saturday), only this time ensuring I have foods that I can easily open and eat without much prep. So, cheese sticks, salami slices, grapes, strawberries, might boil some eggs so I can eat those, sliced cucumber....just things that I can hobble in to the kitchen to snatch up, or have my oldest 2 go get for me without issue.
A friend is going to come over during the week and make meals for us. Monday is covered as we are having leftover potato soup. My grandmother is coming over Tuesday to drop off the kids and has suggested bringing dinner, but that would mean mcdonald's or burger king, and I don't feel like my stomach could handle something like that after this. Mostly because I puked up chick fil a after lipo and this is more invasive and that's a whole lot greasier....
I'm starting to get worried about how I will care for our dog. We have two smaller dogs, and they just go into the back with no issues and will stay out there for however long. They are good dogs. My other dog however, is an asshole, lol. Not really, but he gets excited and will run off. He's leash trained, so I could feasibly let my oldest walk him into the back, HOWEVER, if he sees a cat, his 60lbs will pull down my daughters 75lb frame and he'll jump the fence (he did it last time I was down). Soooooo. Not really sure he can go all day without going out, and I know I can't walk him the first week, maybe two. :/
Side note here, I really fucking love this dog. He's my buddy.
Last night I had a moment of clarity and realized that recovery may be as breezy as I was thinking.
Dumb, I know. I'm going to have a tummy tuck and I was thinking it would be an easy time recovering???
Well, I have had 3 cesarian births, so I am no newb in the world of abdominal surgery.
But.
I was lacking a large difference between the two....
Being that a huge gap of my abdominal area will be REMOVED. Cut the fuck off. No more. Gone.
And to make up for that gap, they have to pull my skin down to meet the top of my pubic area.
Um. Deeeeerp.
This is what I signed up for. And certainly what I want. But in my mental preps for this, I just kinda left that tidbit OUT. So, Monday (and for awhile after) I am going to be hobbling around like an old man. Because my skin hasn't stretched out yet :/ Oy.
I have been reading that most people don't actually stand fully erect until almost the 2 week mark. So they try to spend as much time sitting/lounging as possible.
Good thing I'm loaded up on podcasts, pandora is awesome, and have my netflix. Jeez.
Oh yeah, did I mention that I am going to have two drains? That they'll be stitched into me for anywhere from 2 to 4 weeks? FUN TIMES. And that they need to be (you guessed it) drained? Ew. Ick.
A friend messaged me this morning asking if I could do a practice run on their wedding cakes on the 20th. No. Sorry. I'm going to be in old man mode still, and probably crying from all the pain and irritation with these damn drains.....let's do it on the 27th, when I'm not being AS big of a baby and could at least bark orders at my husband on what to do in the kitchen while I grab my abdomen and complain about not being able to do anything and why did I feel like this was a good idea?
**Fun times ahead**
I'd get a drink, but I can't drink alcohol due to the surgery, between now and a month out. Good lord.
I spent today getting all the items I'd need immediately afterwards to make my life a bit easier.
Gauze, pillows, vitamin E oil, arnica, coconut oil, water bottles, etc.
Tomorrow I go grocery shopping for the week (like usual for a saturday), only this time ensuring I have foods that I can easily open and eat without much prep. So, cheese sticks, salami slices, grapes, strawberries, might boil some eggs so I can eat those, sliced cucumber....just things that I can hobble in to the kitchen to snatch up, or have my oldest 2 go get for me without issue.
A friend is going to come over during the week and make meals for us. Monday is covered as we are having leftover potato soup. My grandmother is coming over Tuesday to drop off the kids and has suggested bringing dinner, but that would mean mcdonald's or burger king, and I don't feel like my stomach could handle something like that after this. Mostly because I puked up chick fil a after lipo and this is more invasive and that's a whole lot greasier....
I'm starting to get worried about how I will care for our dog. We have two smaller dogs, and they just go into the back with no issues and will stay out there for however long. They are good dogs. My other dog however, is an asshole, lol. Not really, but he gets excited and will run off. He's leash trained, so I could feasibly let my oldest walk him into the back, HOWEVER, if he sees a cat, his 60lbs will pull down my daughters 75lb frame and he'll jump the fence (he did it last time I was down). Soooooo. Not really sure he can go all day without going out, and I know I can't walk him the first week, maybe two. :/
Side note here, I really fucking love this dog. He's my buddy.
Last night I had a moment of clarity and realized that recovery may be as breezy as I was thinking.
Dumb, I know. I'm going to have a tummy tuck and I was thinking it would be an easy time recovering???
Well, I have had 3 cesarian births, so I am no newb in the world of abdominal surgery.
But.
I was lacking a large difference between the two....
Being that a huge gap of my abdominal area will be REMOVED. Cut the fuck off. No more. Gone.
And to make up for that gap, they have to pull my skin down to meet the top of my pubic area.
Um. Deeeeerp.
This is what I signed up for. And certainly what I want. But in my mental preps for this, I just kinda left that tidbit OUT. So, Monday (and for awhile after) I am going to be hobbling around like an old man. Because my skin hasn't stretched out yet :/ Oy.
I have been reading that most people don't actually stand fully erect until almost the 2 week mark. So they try to spend as much time sitting/lounging as possible.
Good thing I'm loaded up on podcasts, pandora is awesome, and have my netflix. Jeez.
Oh yeah, did I mention that I am going to have two drains? That they'll be stitched into me for anywhere from 2 to 4 weeks? FUN TIMES. And that they need to be (you guessed it) drained? Ew. Ick.
A friend messaged me this morning asking if I could do a practice run on their wedding cakes on the 20th. No. Sorry. I'm going to be in old man mode still, and probably crying from all the pain and irritation with these damn drains.....let's do it on the 27th, when I'm not being AS big of a baby and could at least bark orders at my husband on what to do in the kitchen while I grab my abdomen and complain about not being able to do anything and why did I feel like this was a good idea?
**Fun times ahead**
I'd get a drink, but I can't drink alcohol due to the surgery, between now and a month out. Good lord.
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