I've returned to the land of the living.. my body is doing well with it's healing...
I still get fatigued over the day...yet it is better than I thought at 2 weeks (post surg).
It's quite amazing how I recover from an physicial assault to my being...
I've observed a few distinct stages I seem to have gone through.
Oblivion: when in the fray of the appendicitis... pre-occupied with pain, nausea, a vagueness etc Actually took Bruce's prompt of ..."lets go to emerg..please" ...
Blind acceptance: when the plan for intervention is struct, usually by a physician to deal with the event..meds, further tests, surgery etc.
Fogginess: immediately after surgery....use of meds to help with the pain and assist with the creation of the 'fog' .. no untoward oops's happened...phew!
Gentle repair/Care: time to test out the system and find the best and worst positions... time to embrace family/friends kind words, gestures... care
Lagtime/convolesence : mind wants to do more..body says..nix.. body says lets do more and mind says nix.... not in cinq
I need more time to get better co-ordinated b/t mind/body, so I return to work tomorrow, Thursday...for a few hours and see how I do.
(surgeon said 2 weeks off work post-op is now the 'norm'...used to be 4-6 weeks for an open appendectomy...hmmm ..the procedure is the same...as it was 10 years ago... why the difference?)
Potential problem: me doing too much ...too soon.
My new learning: not to.
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Entertainment:
Went to the Tom Thomson gallery night at the movies on Sunday and really enjoyed a quirky...family type (dysfunctional albeit) movie
"Introducing the Dwights"with Brenda Blethyn... as a chatty, outrageous, driven woman, single mom...with a wonderfully insightful CP son, and hardworking caring older son...and all their drama's...
I shed a few tears at one point in this movie...because it was about a mother loosing her grown children to the world...and how she will need to get on with HER life now....without the " on- duty" responsibilities she had always had for 22 years.....
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1 comment:
hahaha funny how the recoup time can change in a decade when the procedure hasn't. It is a North American problem of not allowing ourselves time to heal I think. Go slow these next few days.
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