Lots going on. Most years (indeed all that I remember!) I have had a birthday on the 13th Jan. This year it is being postponed to Saturday.
Tomorrow I have the pleasure of going to the hospital for 7.30 in the morning. Not for me this time: P is having grommets fitted and adenoids removed. She has to stay off school for a week which is lovely timing as I am back at work next week for the first time since the op. Once…
It's a funny old time round here and I have just spent ages trying to decide what emphasis to put on the title for this blog post. I am a lot better than I was but the bottom wound is still sore (and a few tiny millimetres are still healing). This didn't stop us having some Christmas fun and the girls' excitement about the big day was really sweet. Santa enjoyed the mince pie they left by the fireplace very…
The past few days have been quite good. I overdid it shopping for some winter clothes and party shoes for the girls on Monday (glad to have done it though), and then slept a lot yesterday and spent hours finishing a great Maggie O'Farrell novel. Today: coffee in Stony and into the library to hand in a letter of support (it is threatened with closure in the cuts - it would be a huge loss to the community).
The good…
It's been a bit up and down in the past few days. I think I had been doing very well since coming home, but somewhere along the way I overdid things. On Friday I was looking pale, feeling cold, needing extra rests again and in more pain than for some time. I guess it wasn't a good idea to try and start reducing the pain killers I was taking but I had been feeling reasonably well up until that point. Especially after the…
I escaped ward 20 on Tuesday, seven days after the op. I am now making a really good recovery even if I do say so myself!
The op was performed by key hole so I was under general anaesthetic for around six hours: colostomy and then (I think it is called) AR resection. It seems to have all gone OK although old scarring from a tricky delivery during the birth of our second daughter meant that the surgeon had to remove a…
