The view from the other side
In the four days since, my time scale has been changing. For the first two or three days, I was living on ten minute horizon: the time till the next done of pain meds. How long until the Tylenol kick in (fever issues), etc.
my goals in the hospital were things like, walk 5 number of times, use the breathing aperattus 10 times per hour, etc.
Now, I am waiting for the pathology report.
This was my first major surgery. And I did not know what to expect. I do know I did not like it.
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The initiation
DHS1963,
Not fun. There is no way to sugar coat the sutgery. Things will get a little better each day. The odds are you are now cancer free. Was it worth it? Of course it was. Relax a little. You are enttled to. A few years from now you will even forget there was any pain. Not really.
Icemantoo0 -
I can definitely feel a day to day improvementicemantoo said:The initiation
DHS1963,
Not fun. There is no way to sugar coat the sutgery. Things will get a little better each day. The odds are you are now cancer free. Was it worth it? Of course it was. Relax a little. You are enttled to. A few years from now you will even forget there was any pain. Not really.
Icemantoo
Some subjective, measurements, and some are objective.
The objective measurements are from the Incentive breathing torture device (each day a little better; today I am up to 3000 ml). I am also using less pain medicine.
Subjectively, I am feeling more alert.
The Dr. thinks/is confident that he got it all.
I plan to treat myself to a toy when this is done. I have always wanted a ragtop, and plan to trade in the minivan for a Mustang convertable.0
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