I been gone, been
gone so long…
Wow this month sure
did throw me for a loop.
Please note: There are parts of this post about my health
and recovery, please feel free to pass reading that and go to the sixth
paragraph down that is bolded and red.
As I mentioned in an
(earlier post-put in link), I had surgery in the middle of the month. After I posted my last post on Friday Jan 3,
I got even sicker. I ended up with at least
3 hernia's that needed to be repaired. I
ended up on bed rest for a bit. My
surgery was actually scheduled for the 15th and not the 18th that I said
before. Everything went well. He fixed the hernias, and some issues I was
having with my bowel. I did well
recovering and didn't have to stay in hospital long.
It was nice to be
home and recuperating. On the following
Wednesday, one week after the operation, I went to see my surgeon to have my
stitch removed. When my doctor does any
type of abdominal surgery he tends to close it with one running stitch. It was removed no problem and no pain so that
is always a plus in my book! LOL
Went home and took
it easy. I was sitting straight up in
bed, just watching tv, when without moving or leaning over I felt something
funny at the bottom of my incision. Well
it split a bit so I was now on my bed other than to go potty, or eat, and we
thought it would still be able to heal and close without having to take a trip
to the emergency. Slept ok that night
but the next day around noon, I felt a bit funny again and realized that I was
bleeding quite a bit so I called G and he was still in Toronto and would take
1.5 hours to get home. So unfortunately
I had to call 911 to come and get me.
They were all super nice, nice to see those hunk fire-fighters and EMT in
my home. Some were truly drool worthy
LOL
They used a
contraption called a "stair chair" and strapped me into it to get me
down the front steps and to the stretcher in my driveway. Note that we had a huge storm and the
snow banks were high. As they got to the
driveway my female EMT behind me slipped and fell onto the ground and I flew
backwards and fell on her leg on the driveway.
I felt so bad for the EMT I didn't realize that I had actually just
split my incision even more, including muscles.
It didn't take long
to figure out that this was a big oops, as I was being quickly prepped for
emergency surgery. It was a new
experience for me to be rushed to OR.
Mine are usually planned LOL. I
spent the night in hospital and begged Dr to send me home and I was home by 11
the day after my surgery.
I am still
recovering and taking things slow but am well enough to spend a few hours
online so I have been working on blog post ideas and still trying to get the
new domain all fancied up before I bring you all over there. I hope your year started off marginally (I used the wrong word here), exceptionally different than mine did. Talk about a
month lost. I got nothing on my to do
list accomplished yet. Except in the
spirit of keeping it real… I showed you the small dust collection I amass every
few days around here. My house is so far
from being the sparkling showcase houses we all drool over in magazines and
decorating shows.
Please subscribe to
the blog so you can go along for the ride on my 'real' and not so pretty
adventure to make this house a home… my home, including all the dust
bunnies. :)
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