Hi floury - repeat what Sawyer said about housework/ pottering. I didn't do much of anything except lie around, have a shower, and eat during the first week. This is now the end of the second week and I've been able to do more - dishwasher, laundry, etc. Still not lifting anything heavier than the baby - although at around 25 pounds I have a feeling that is not what my surgeon had in mind... but he doesn't feel heavy to me!!
I'm in discomfort now rather than pain. Yesterday my mum and I did a shopping trip across the border to the States, and that was more walking than I'd done and by 4 pm I was good and ready to sit down. Even needed some ibuprofen and paracetamol. But felt loads better after resting a bit. I feel achy now (TMI alert) - sort of achy inside, if that makes sense, and like my labia are aching on the right. I had that after Jackbaby was born, as well, only much, much worse and according to my surgeon, the pain distribution indicates that the pudendal nerve, which supplies sensation to the perineum, is bruised/ aggravated/ damaged. But it does go away with rest, and especially application of heat, whether as a bean bag or sitz bath. I found heat so soothing after the op. I used ice once, I think, when I felt I needed it, but the rest of the time it's been heat.
On my surgical sheet when I was in pre-op it said that my surgeon was doing a "posterior repair" as well - I guess they just call it that when you have surgery inside the vagina? I suppose calling it a "right-sided repair" would have sounded funny, even though all my scar tissue & polyp etc was on the right wall of the vagina. It sounds like you're having the same thing done that I had.
On the subject of bleeding, I'm now 12 days post-op and have light bleeding. Maybe 2" x 2" on the sanitary napkin a few times a day. It's light reddish brown. I find I can tell when I need to get off my feet by the bleeding - it's heavier when I've overdone. I found that the first and second day post-op it was as heavy as the middle of my period. After that, it stayed moderate (sort of middle-to-end of a normal period) for about a week. The last few days it's been much lighter.
What I find really disconcerting about it is that I occaisonally remember that the bleeding is not my uterus ditching its contents, it's bleeding from a cut in my vagina! Yikes!! And then I wonder, shouldn't it be closed yet??? After all, it's mucosal tissue which heals very quickly! But I guess the internal environment (moist etc) means that an incision wouldn't close as fast as one exposed to air. And of course it wasn't a simple cut, judging by the surgeon's description of the depth of the nodule she removed, as well as excising the entire scar and undermining the tissue. (GAH!!!) I mentioned this to DH and thank God he'd listened to what the surgeon said, that the bleeding could go on for a couple of weeks. It has obviously slowed down, I had almost none last night, so I'm reassured.
I just wanted to bump a question that cyee raised a few weeks ago (or maybe longer - see, I was able to read that far back!!), which didn't seem to get answered as far as I could tell: have any of you conceived since your difficulties and operations?
It's not in the cards for us, I think - well, at least not for a while because I'd need to be completely recovered. And DH is really happy with just one child. TBH, even though I have been guaranteed a section for a second child, I don't know if I could do it again. My mind just shrinks from the thought right now. And I'm turning 40 in April so I don't have all the time in the world. And as DH says, we have perfection now [besotted parents emoticon]... but I just wanted to ask.