Six weeks on from having a part of my body sawn off and taken out to be replaced forcefully by items from the periodic table I'm doing OK but as my teacher once said (OK not once, every school report) could do better.
It's almost 3am and here I am again replying to posts on this forum, most of which won't see the light of day due to either the site being rubbish or my iPad deciding that because it's older than four years it has to stop working and shut itself off to remind me that Apple products are not for life, just a few Christmases then it's time to replace.
When I'm not on this forum I'm playing games meant for six year olds, my fave at the moment it AlphaBetty - a "fun" spelling game for really little kids. Well I'm on level 25 and can't get past it. Some words it actually accepts even though I'm sure they don't exist but it makes me smile as it does accept all forms of swear words so I try to do as many of those as possible just to humour myself until the iPad crashes again.
I cannot get comfy in bed. My geriatric Persian cat who has not once sat on my lap voluntarily in the 15+ years we have had her has decided that she needs to be near my scar at all times day and night. Very sweet apart from the fact that she takes up a fair bit of room as she has to lay at a certain angle and as she's my only child I cannot possibly move her or wake her. When I'm laying on the sofa she gets on top of my operated hip and her full 14lb weight will contentedly purr away, again a bit sore but can't move my baby so hint at daddy having sweets for her and as she's greedy after a while she will seek him out. Most of the time she wants to kill him and he regularly has a bitten or scratched hand/face, although to be fair he does deserve it most of the time (shouldn't cuddle so tight).
Went for a walk around town with my mum today, first time out without any walking aid and it was great for half an hour then I started doing the Pengiun walk and got a bit sore. I'm surprised no one threw fish at me, I do rather a good impersonation. We then met my sister for lunch which was lovely as the sun was shining (so we had to sit in the shade because of my mums "tropical moments". I was looking forward to getting some sun on my lily white legs as they have been incased in the bloomin stockings for the last six weeks. Anyway lunch was lovely but sitting on wooden slats didn't do me much good as when we left I had changed my walk to monkey. I was glad to get home and rest.
That's another thing - "rest". The week or so following my op the other half was fairly good at helping out, you know - warming up a ready meal and acting like he made Christmas dinner from scratch. Washing up (how does it take him 35 mins to do what I can in five ?), hoovering (scaring the cat so she will take a swipe at next available opportunity) and changing my stockings. Yep he did ALL that and still managed to do his day job. Well now I'm doing everything again, cooking, cleaning, washing, dressing myself and I'm meant to be resting. It's like he had an out of body experience that won't be repeated. I'm sure he has vision that doesn't see dirt. As I couldn't get in the bath I thought I would wait and see how long it took him before he cleaned it - well let's just say I did it around the three week mark as you could have done graffiti in the mark around the side. Now I'm able to get in the bath again it's bliss - I won't take that for granted for at least a month.
So I'm "resting" my pain in the a*** and my aching leg in between my zoo impression walks and yes it's getting better day by day. I now have some sleeping tablets to take to try and break the cycle of being awake at this hour playing crappy games that make me feel thick (not taking them until Monday though - it's the weekend and I prefer wine to sleep). This forum and the amazing people have helped immensely and I couldn't imagine going through it without the support.
Anyway I know what you're all thinking - how have I managed to type such a long post ? Well I type it into Notes then Cut and Paste into here. Wish I'd thought about that ages ago so that I could have offered more support and a friendly ear. Honestly the witty remarks you have all missed because of the technology crashing are such a waste.
I will put the money I'm saving by not travelling to and from work towards another overpriced iPad - oh no I won't, sorry wine, I will put it towards wine. See can do better
Sarah X X
, but now I use a society in a town close tome which means I can go and pick up some lovely bin ends.