Phase One Complete

Today is the 14th of Feb, Happy Valentines Day!

It has been 9 days since my surgery, and 7 since I got to come home. :D Yay!

So there are many stories I can tell from the past 9 days. Let me give you the best and the brightest.
Monday morning went well. I got into the OR nice and early, on time in fact. :D It seems all went well. The incision went a different direction than the one I had done 2 years ago, this may have made a difference on the side effects of the surgery. And that is a good thing because I am not as "disabled" this time. I definitely have some recovery to do to get my arm back to normal (or as normal as it can be).
I think having surgeries close together is a bad thing for me. My body certainly doesn't like what has been done to me. LOL Plus I do silly things like insist that I am fine and then get bit in the ass (actually face) to prove I am not "fine". lol Nothing like passing out and hitting the floor to tell you you aren't "fine". So I think I made the nurses a bit jumpy, I was ok though, no major injuries, just some bruising of the body (and pride). :D I think I gave each shift, that first day, an interesting time. I passed out, I vomited, I loosened my IV so that I was bleeding all over myself and the bed.....things sometimes happen in 3's, I think this was my 3. I can't help but laugh over all of this. At least nothing terribly bad happened. *whew*

I stayed 2 nights and then got to go home on Wednesday morning, they wanted to keep me but I assured my doctor I could manage taking care of my drain and that I was very bored. He said I could go home. Once home I napped a bit, watched some TV, sat at the computer, sat even more at the computer....Relaxed and tried not to do too much. Had many impromptu naps, but it was all good.

Being homebound was good for the first couple of days, then I got to go out twice on Friday. Tuckered myself out a bit but I had fun. That is the main thing, the best thing. Stayed in on the weekend, it snowed a lot this past week, and a lot fell on the weekend. My mom and sister shoveled my walk on Thurs and Fri but no one came over on the weekend so on Monday I went out and took my time shoveling the snow. I got crap for it later, but I am not going to bug people to do what I normally do for myself, especially when they have their own piles of snow to move. Oh, and I drove for the first time since the surgery. It was a bit uncomfortable, my arm tired out quickly, but I managed to get some errands and groceries taken care of.
I have been to dance class, shoveled a bit more snow, and I am suffering the effects of some swelling. But I am fine, and glad I can do for myself. (independant streak a mile wide huh?).

Certainly, I am still a bit tired and my stamina is not back to where it should be, but it is getting there. I have dance again tomorrow night, I will have to take it easy, need the swelling to go down. Ice packs are wonderful things. :D