Hello, new here, looking for post surgery advice

Hi, I had cytoreduction and HIPEC on 2nd Dec ‘21 at the Christie hospital. The surgery went well but afterwards I had pneumonia and a paralytic ilias (bowel hadn’t woken up by the time I was trying to eat). I came home on 21st Dec and then had severe pain on Christmas Eve and was admitted to my local hospital with bowel obstruction. They think the obstruction was possibly from early forming scar tissue interfering with the bowel or because there was a loop of bowel in a little pool of fluid...apparently can happen after surgery. The bowel seemed to settle down and once I was able to keep food down and was passing bowel movements, they let me home...5 weeks in hospital bar the couple of days I was home before Christmas...so I feel like I’ve already had a long journey. When I got my diagnosis, I was told the recovery period was six weeks and that afterwards I could return to doing things I had done before. I think I took this a bit to literally as I’m really not there yet, I’m still in pain, which I’m not sure if is from my bowel still recovering or the operation or both. I sometimes wish I had a window into my tummy to see what is going on. I can’t describe the pain very well, it’s like a constant ache, and the painkillers don’t help. Sometimes my the surface of my scar is painful, so much so that I can’t stand a t-shirt touching it, but other times it’s fine (scar is healing well, no sign of infection). I’ve got 3 children (youngest aged 2 and wants my constant attention) and although my husband is working from home, he can’t help me as much as I’d like, Has anyone found something that helps with the longer term pain? I’m using a stretchy support belt thing that my husband was given when he injured his chest but I’m wondering if a proper tummy binder would help, has anyone used one? Thank you :)