I'm doing so much better now, it's 2 weeks and 1 day since my op. i can now walk 1.6 miles at a time, yesterday I did two walks like that to build up my strength, one in the morning and one in the evening - I'm getting to know my local area loads!!!! I started driving on Thursday, although I could have done it earlier I think.
My incision on my lower right hurts the most, it has ouzed a bit, e.g. This morning I didn't have any dressings on when I showered, I then put one back just on the lower bigger one, but after a Sainsbury's trip my white vest was a bit stained around it, it looks fine, but I have bunged a plaster on it for good measure! The lower one I am keeping a dressing on because it it is right where my waist band is, and quite vulnerable given my lovely previous fat belly overhang under my belly button (I'm about 6 stone lighter than I was 2 years ago!). The small cuts the surgeon made are nice and neat, the drain one is a bit more weird shaped, definitely a round hole shaped scar there, the lower one I think I will have a knobbly raised bit, unless that settles with time, but it's not quite flat. That was a bit yuck today, there was a blob of dried blood hanging off, I had to cut it off, as I think a bit of the stuff they sew you up with inside was sticking out and the blood had congealed around it - but I snipped it off and I hope that now I'm exposing it to water when I shower it will dissolve!
Last night I started lying on my front and right side for periods of the night, was a bit sore, but felt so nice as that's how I usually sleep!
Today I went into work for 2.5 hours, with a 30min drive each way. That was fine, back tomorrow, will be at School by 6.30am and I'll see how long I manage to stay for. In my mind I'm not doing any teaching this week, my head wants me to not teach for the rest of the term, but she has an ulterior motive as there is tonnes of stuff she needs me to do! Tomorrow's focus will be doing lots of mini lesson observations around school.
On Friday I went and hit the shops for 4 hours (including driving between the 4 locations!) to buy new clothes for work, as I tried mine on and most of my dresses and jackets did not fit, I've lost 1.5 stone since the attack started on Xmas Day!!!
I'm now eating at normal times and have had no ill effects, I am slowly introducing more fat each meal time, e.g. Today it was chicken wrapped in streaky bacon with cheese on the menu for our supper. I really want to get back to proper low carb high fat if I can, as it was so successful for me in keeping my weight stable/down and killing the type two diabetes! Mind you I am enjoying the things I didn't get to have, as I started LCHF very suddenly and kept to it very religiously. So it's kind of like a last supper thing where I am eating things I craved - weirdly my biggest craving was for crunchy nut cornflakes with milk - all far too carb heavy for LCHF!
I do get tired more easily at the moment though, but I'm sure that will continue to improve. My head commented today that I looked so well, and that I had always looked white as a sheet when I had the drain in (and that was me with drain and no pain, compared to the had to stay at home tramadol induced haze painful drain leaking stage!)
Here's hoping for a continued positive recovery!