Gall bladder recovery: status report

[redbird]

Instead of running a bunch of errands after work Friday, then coming home and doing something (anything) interesting with my time to myself, I abandoned the last two errands, came home, made a cup of tea, and then took a 2.5-hour nap despite the caffeine. Saturday was a rest day, and I'm taking things moderately easy today as well.

The areas around the incisions still hurt in what seems a semi-random fashion. Yes, more likely if I sit up for long than if I'm lying down or reclining. I think, but am not sure, that standing intermittently eases things. And yes, more if I'm wearing pants, with a waist that can press on the incisions, than if I'm wearing something that doesn't press, or nothing at all. Aspirin helps some. Vicodin helps some, but it makes for a slightly fuzzier redbird. [It's a pill containing a narcotic and acetominophen.]

I had something with wine in the sauce for the first time since the surgery, for dinner last night; when cattitude suggested the idea, I decided it had been long enough since the previous Vicodin that there was no risk to speak of.

I'm deliberately not making plans for next Friday afternoon, because I really do need time alone while awake, and if I can use the half-days that way, it makes things significantly easier on Cattitude.

Comments

[amaebi.livejournal.com]

Yow. :/

Thumbs held for your patience and recovery.

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

It's nice to have the Friday afternoons to use that way. Don't push yourself.

[redbird]

The tentative plan is to use a few of them to go visit adrian_turtle, a few as alone time, and a few possibly for social stuff or for around-the-city things like extra trips to the zoo. If I have the energy, a nice but not incredibly lengthy lunch and a few errands gets me home at a time that gives me a few hours alone before cattitude gets home from work, long enough to be restorative.

[celestialabyss.livejournal.com]

Do get better soon! Rest is the best component of restorative. I'm glad the surgery was a success. Hugs! (Gently...)