So yeah, it’s June and I just realized now that I forgot to post this several weeks ago. Oops! Sorry for the lack of updates. Next one will be long and bring you up to date. In week two, I’d made some bigly progress. My walks had lengthened from up …
April 21 – 23rd, 2024 Saturday night, I sweated through my clothes again. I think it was the acetaminophen in the Norco. I don’t know if this makes any real sense, but maybe I needed that so much the first couple of nights that I didn’t sweat, and now that …
It’s Friday after my TT on Tuesday. Drain update: I believe I mentioned that both drains would need to be putting out <40ml/24 hours for them to be ready to remove. . The right drain (which is collecting fluid from the horizontal incision) seems to be done, with less than …
Healing continues… In my last post, I forgot to mention one more medication (there are so darn many!): Enoxaparin, a blood thinner that I’m to inject subcutaneously for 7 days to prevent clotting. No one wants a DVT or PE, but dang if these things don’t give me bruises. Mind …
A little housekeeping note: I’m blogging all of this about three weeks behind reality – mainly because healing from surgery had me too busy to to more than make some notes to be fleshed out later. Though I didn’t get the best sleep that first night, I woke up feeling …
At my pre-op visit two weeks prior, I’d received a TON of instructions and a goody bag of supplies. I was to avoid a bunch of foods and supplements that could impact bleeding (who knew garlic would be an issue?). I really only had to modify things a bit, cutting …
