Uterine cancer

Hi Margaret

yes her op was on mondayx

Hi Caz

Did you drive today I’m going to hate not getting out !

x

My partner Craig is my driver atm cos I’m not allowed yet!!! I don’t mind! Have to be able to do an emergency stop apparently! Maybe in a couple of weeks! X

My godness you remind me of me.

When i had just had my op I thought i was superwoman and was doing alsorts, all the wrong things too i am ashamed to say. But its easy done, i swear its the drugs!

I always say be kind to yourself , relax don't rush your healing, it doesn’t have to be done today tomorrow is soon enough.

Remember the golden rule which applies to us all when we have our hysterectomies no bending, lifting or stretching. 

Hi , and RollercoasterRide. I am i right your surgeries are next Monday and Tuesday? Just want to wish you both good luck, strong healing and best wishes for your ops.

sending you both gentle hugs

Hi GBear

yes my op is on Monday getting bit nervous now worrying i May forget the prep drinks, suppositories at 5 am etc lol x

I was wondering if your not allowed to bend over how did uget dressed x

I’ve been bending to get dressed & get those ted stockings on!!! X

I remember i was a nervous wreck before my op and yes i had the prep drink too that wasn't the nicest of tastes but was at least bearable. The one thing I realised was my op was no way as bad as I thought. I had it part abdominal part keyhole they had to cut into my bellybutton down to get my bulky womb out. But i was impressed that my scar healed really well. One the day of your op you will have been given a time to arrive you see the nurse for blood pressure etc and they measure you up for the stockings, ask if you can get two pairs so you can wash one, as you have to wear them for a various amount of weeks. I had them for six weeks in the end, you also see the anesthetist and you see the consultant who will go though the operation with you. The time goes pretty quickly. Once all thats done you will then get changed and if like me you will wait in a pre op area on a bed ready till you go in. As you go to the athletic they contact you up to the heart monitor and insert a cannula, once the anesthetisic is given to you they will put an oxygen mask on you as you slowly fall deeply asleep.  When i woke up i had a catheter in and was contacted up to a morphine drip and saline drip just for extra fluids till i came round enough to drink then i just had the morphine. The morphine drip was one where you press a button to get some morphine it was all explained in recovery where a lovely nurse was there looking after me and making sure i was ok, its all was reassuring. I was home the next day and was amazed how well i felt and walked to the car, not sure how i did it but I knackered by the time i got in the car. I had a pillow to protect my abdomen from the seatbelt that really helps. A cushion works just as well too. Some found that they had trouble sleeping at the hospital lots of moving about etc and earplugs are great and some reading material too.

good luck i will be thinking of you, imagine i am there holding your hand every step of the way as i do for all.

Dressing was fun really, I would seat on the bed and i bent my knees to put my stockings and I wore light fitting clothes. I was lucky to be fair it was summer so i put shorts on if around the house and some light tacksuit bottoms they were easy to put on without bending too much. Bending is more not bending to pick something off the floor though. At first when i was dressing i lay on the bed and used a coat hanger to pull my tacksuit or shorts up to where i could reach comfortably.