Gallbladder removed, but still iffy about Saturdays 5K with the Kindred Spirits :(

Quick update! My gallbladder surgery went smoothly, my surgeon said my insides were "unremarkable"...sheesh! LOL

I got to be the drop-dead gorgeous interns study! Just what I wanted to be~NOT! At one point I had 3, count em 3, surrounding my bed asking if I minded if they lifted up my gown to look at my stomach. In another life I would have responded differently to that question! My sister said they chose me cuz I am such a hottie~ we laughed so hard! I said yeah, if your idea of "hot" is a belly looking rather like oatmeal stuffed in a baggie! Oh to be 25 again...sigh

The only glitch was from the trach during the anesthesia. Not sure what happened, but I will call the surgeon today and ask. When I was still groggy in the recovery room, I could feel my lip was tacky/sticky. I touched it and I was bleeding! I have a huge lump and cut on the inside and outside of my mouth. Also, by the time I got home (YAY!) yesterday afternoon, my jaw line and neck were swollen, and I am bruised. all the way around the jaw. It seems to me perhaps the trach tube didn't want to come out, and they had to use actual physical force to remove it! That thoght freks me out in hindsight, and if it is indeed wha happened, I imagine it freaked them out too! But no one mentioned a thing...and I didn't know that my jaw/throat were going to be sore and bruised or I would have said something at the hospital. I had to keep an ice pack on all for quite some hours last night. It doesn't seem much better this morning yet. Not good for the ego to have eaten only non fat and then clear liquids for a week and come out of the hospital with my face fatter than when I went in! LOL

On to the 5K~ My uber-sweet, protective Reggie wants me to take it easy and NOT go! I know his heart is in the right place and I have been through a lot, but I want to go! I was so encouraged by the response from the RNs and the interns. They were excited about it, and said walking is the exercise of choice after gallbladder surgery. I was told to listen to my body, and perhaps walk at 60% of my normal pace, drink lots of water on the route, and STOP if I didn't feel right. A no brainer! I couldn't wait till Reggie heard that! So~ when the Dr came in to discharge me, and he was standing next to Reggie...I asked the Dr "permission" just knowing he was going to be impressed and give me a big thumbs up! Ya know the adage about assuming??? My Dr is in Reggie's camp! He made a big frowney face and said...."uh, I don't know about that one, Claudia. Saturday is a bit too soon to be considering that."
WTH?????

So I am in the doldrums. I will do what is best for me physically of course; if you ask those McDreamy interns ( tho my latest swoon is one of the guys on Trauma!) they will tell you I no longer have the body of a 20-something. It may indeed be too much, afterall.

So much for the quick update; it turned into the next chapter of my Great America Novel! Sorry about that!

I'll keep you posted!

Hugs,
Chen♥