Tomorrow will be 4 weeks post surgery & I just wanted to let all the wonderful women who responded that it went very well. I was in the hospital for 2 1/2 days & the nurses & doctors involved were excellent (all women by the way). The only minor complication was when it was time to go home the staples across my lower abdomen wasn’t quite closing towards the middle so I had to go see my gyno. the next day in which she practically duct taped it well & told me to leave it on 24 hours.
I have found that my energy level is down and I am always at rest, not necessarily in bed. I’m doing no housework because I don’t want to prolong my recovery plus I just don’t feel like it anyway. Many of you have told me to go at my own pace and don’t lift anything heavy (5lbs my limit) and I am doing that.
I just want to close by saying thank you for being there. I’ve found out other women before going in that have had this done namely the in-take nurse & the woman at the info desk daughter. It’s more common than I realized.
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p.s. There was 1 fibroid tumor that was bothering me for about a year & the size was 8 inches wide which means it was as big as my uterus. I told the doctor I wanted to see it & she took a picture of it—WOW!!!!
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Agreed. I never thought I was vain until I had a mastectomy at age 39. I was devastated and told the doc I wanted to wake up with implants. Now at age 60, I am lopsided and wondering if I was just avoiding the inevitable. You get what you get and you
Sounds very interesting.
How wonderful that you are progressing so well and taking the time for yourself that you need in order to recuperate, both physically and in terms of your energy.
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Be well.