Post by willow82 on Oct 20, 2012 11:28:14 GMT -5
I'm certain my story is pretty common, and would love to hear how other women have dealt with this during their recovery.
It's been 2 and a half weeks since my surgery, I feel better than I have in months! I can't wait to get out there and take on the world! But, I'm not all healed up yet. I'm in that place where I can act now, but I'll have recovery aches later.
For myself, I've been back at my very hectic job since Monday. I'm a mobile professional so I drive to appointments (6-8 stops a day, 2-3 hours on the road), and during appointments can be doing just about anything from hiking into the woods to find someone, grocery shopping, to walking endless miles of hospital corridor.
I was amazed that I was just tired my first few days back, but by Thursday started getting achy again (Gee wonder why?). For my job I'm on good behavior, not bending, not lifting (nice getting out of a few weeks of carrying groceries > ), no romping in the woods I'm also well behaved when I get home, I lay down and take pain meds if I need it.
While I know it's normal, it FEELS disheartening that the pain isn't all gone. Meanwhile I FEEL so much better than I did prior to surgery it's hard to be responsible and slow down.
And when I do hurt it is in almost all the same places as before (which of course makes total sense since those spots were skinned!), but at the same time part of my brain turns on warning bells going "Oh NO you're hurting THERE again!". The pain though is much less, different, and clearly my body healing.
Just thought it'd be nice to swap stories, share sage advice on how to slow down, and remind one another that our insides need time to get better.
It's been 2 and a half weeks since my surgery, I feel better than I have in months! I can't wait to get out there and take on the world! But, I'm not all healed up yet. I'm in that place where I can act now, but I'll have recovery aches later.
For myself, I've been back at my very hectic job since Monday. I'm a mobile professional so I drive to appointments (6-8 stops a day, 2-3 hours on the road), and during appointments can be doing just about anything from hiking into the woods to find someone, grocery shopping, to walking endless miles of hospital corridor.
I was amazed that I was just tired my first few days back, but by Thursday started getting achy again (Gee wonder why?). For my job I'm on good behavior, not bending, not lifting (nice getting out of a few weeks of carrying groceries > ), no romping in the woods I'm also well behaved when I get home, I lay down and take pain meds if I need it.
While I know it's normal, it FEELS disheartening that the pain isn't all gone. Meanwhile I FEEL so much better than I did prior to surgery it's hard to be responsible and slow down.
And when I do hurt it is in almost all the same places as before (which of course makes total sense since those spots were skinned!), but at the same time part of my brain turns on warning bells going "Oh NO you're hurting THERE again!". The pain though is much less, different, and clearly my body healing.
Just thought it'd be nice to swap stories, share sage advice on how to slow down, and remind one another that our insides need time to get better.