Apple muncher's number crunching

Karmacat

apple_muncher wrote: »

Thank you, karma! Did you notice my failure to even hint at the other sort of fat...? Or weight...?! Or the dreadful bmi...

Step by step, apple - visceral fat is genuinely important!

This evening I have (re)discovered that those pesky 12 min workouts leave their mark. Not always immediately (apart from a red face), but several hours later, it's like the muscles go, 'Wait. What? What did you do to me?' And they start to rebel!

Awww. You're getting tough, though

Dd got home in such a state today that we didn't go swimming. An early tea with lots of food seemed to sort her out.

Adolescence. Girls have hollow legs as well as boys

apple_muncher

I am hernia-repaired at last. I was cancelled on weds and eventually 'done' about 24 hours later. So I am home and resting, but trying to also keep moving. Awake but also not-quite-there. So sleepy but not enough to doze off.


The joy of having a general!

Karmacat

I'm glad its done! How come you're keeping moving on purpose? How many stitches do you have? Remember that a general anesthetic takes about a week to fully leave your system ...

apple_muncher

I think that keeping moving helps the body repair itself. Also, as it's on my abdomen, then walking about means that the wound gets less scrunched up. Really though, all I'm doing is trying to drink a lot and then need the loo! I don't know exactly what they did - my discharge nurse was rather unforthcoming with info and I wasn't in a state to ask anything. I think they stitched the hernia gap together with permanent stitches and attached the mesh over the area (more stitches?) and sewed up the incision (too far form the belly button to go in through there) with dissolving stitches. So, I've absolutely no idea of the total!

I have had a doze during bake off and am now sat up until that's too much and I'll lay down again!

I did have breakfast around 8am, as I'd not eaten for 26 hours and thought that I should. Dh is currently boiling me some eggs so I can make egg mayo sarnies later.

Overall, I'm much more mobile than I expected to be. Thought I'd have real issues with getting from laying to upright. I guess that so many toilet trips in the night, when still under the stronger effects of the anaesthetic taught me the best way to do it... I'll keep on taking the painkillers though - they did give me a 7 day supply!

Karmacat

It sounds like you're doing great, and also that you're following your intuition, which is even greater :kisses3:

CathT

Wishing you a speedy recovery Apple xx

apple_muncher

Am hoping for fewer toilet trips in the night tonight... I know dh would appreciate not being disturbed every 75mins or so...

That new super super gym are raising my monthly fees. From about 26 to about 36. That is a lot. I had thought that existing members might be allowd to continue on their current price... Silly me! So I'll have to make doubly sure that I'm getting value from it, as I don't think I was getting my money's worth at 26... But that is a plot and plan for another day.

My quest for the rest of Jan is to start mending, eat well, and keep moving and possibly exercising the bits of me that I can. Though when the wound is on my torso and I can't bend, then I'll have to be creative! I'm also aware that it may hurt more over the next few days before improving... Ah well, I have nice painkillers .

apple_muncher

Nice painkillers! The included paperwork says 1 tablet every 4 hrs unless otherwise directed. I'm on 2 every 4 hrs for 7 days! Am feeling the need for them more today.


Realised that I have no instuctions on the dressing and the removal/replacement of it, so I've had a peek! What I thought was the dressing is a covering over the steristrip thingies (?) that are holding the would closed, I think. Prob best to wait until Mon and try to see the nurse at my dr's... and see what they say to do...



Am making sure that I straighten my torso more regularly today than I did yesterday. It does pull, but better that than being scrunched up. And I'll sleep with 1 less pillow tonight so I'm just that little bit straighter.

Karmacat

Apple, is there any advice on the NHS website about wound healing? How to make it as fast and neat as possible, that sort of thing? I hope you sleep well tonight

apple_muncher

Thanks karma - the websites all suggest '1-2 weeks' of this, that and the other. So I'm just going to try to be sensible and use common sense. Until I peeked, I had no idea whether they'd cut in horizontally or vertically, as they'd been waiting for the head surgeon person to make that decision. I'd worked out that they'd 'only' done 1 repair (they'd discussed maybe doing all 3) as the wound wasn't long enough to cover all 3. And I can see that it's vertical.


Anyhow, I'll find someone more knowledgeable than me to look at it and let me know what to do...:D