I'm most thankful to be alive this holiday even if I'm not up to celebrating. Funny how life's bumps can change one's perspective. Now if I could just get back to eating like normal. I sure am wishing my stomach would tolerate turkey with all the trimmings. Maybe by Christmas I'll be to that point.
In the meantime, here's wishing everyone a great Thanksgiving and a wonderful holiday season to come.
I got home from the hospital a week ago, today. Unfortunately I came home without my pain under any reasonable amount of management so it's been a tough go. Mostly hurting too much to do much of anything, posting just wasn't an option for me.
Currently the pain is better but still not under control. I am also having problems because I am so thin that my nerves are pretty well shot. I have spent so much time laying or sitting that my nerves are screaming at me and I am experiencing numbness in my legs and my face. No matter what I do I can't seem to find a comfortable position or a way to relieve this. If anyone has ideas on something that might alleviate this situation, your input would be greatly appreciated.
I am also having issues with my eyes like I did after the last hospitalization. Once I get the other side of this, I will need to have my prescription redone so I can get back to working on my computer and reading blogs. I sure do miss visiting.
In the meantime I am living one day at a time and yearning for the day my life gets back to normal. I miss handling my horses more than I can say.
Sorry I thought Dave had post for me days ago but since that's not the case I thought I should at least give you some idea things here. My body hasn't been reponding any better to this surgery than it did tothe first one way back in June. I had a pretty severe reation to anything take by mouth and had to have a NG tube inserted to deal with the mess in my gastric tract.
Those tubes are only made in a one size fits all kind of thing meaning my litle throat did not take kindly to the invasion of that tube. I had problems with 3 very uncomforable presure point, one just inide the nostril, one at the top of my simu cavity and one at the opening betwen my mouth and nose. Swallowing was and still is difficult. talking nearly impossible and sleeping pretty much out of the question. I did push those limits but it was painful.
the tube was removed last evening and I am supposed to be on liquid today but the doc forgot to write the order. It looks like we're back on tract, at least for now. In the meatime I'm dying of boredom. At this rate I'd guess they might be done with me sometime by the end of the week.
Having issues with my eyes again and I'm not sure what to do. if anyone has thoughts on what might help might eyes cope with all this chaos, I sure would love to know. In the meantime, I'll be skipping the spel check and other option that strai y already watering eyes.
