Health
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Doc Visit: Post Appendectomy
Everything is fine. My blood counts are good. No infection in the body. Have felt normal today. Still a little tender in spots where incisions are and where appendix was. But I’m more flexible, way less sore, and starting to feel normal. I may try sleeping in my bed starting the weekend. But I’ll still sleep on sofa tonight. I can tell my stamina is coming back 1 week out from surgery. I can’t believe it’s been a week already. I’m starting to think more, plan more, think about food, get excited about things, feel like doing things, etc. So this is good. Mom called me tonight with more that…
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Healing, and a Little Impatience
Good morning. Just a mid-week check in here. My goal this week, aside from getting well, was to get payroll done so my boss doesn’t have to. It was tough I will admit. Monday was longer of a day than I needed to be there. And then back at it on Tuesday. I had the offer to work from home Wednesday but honestly it was going to be much extra work for me and others to pull that off. So it’s easier just work shorter days and get some extra rest in, now that payroll is over. The hard part is not being able to lay down/lay back when I…
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Each Day Hopefully Better
Reading, editing, sleeping, petting the dogs, and doing laundry have been the to do items the last two days, following the appendectomy. I have a “grabber” that has helped with the laundry as I can’t bend too far over. Today was about 10-20 % improvement over yesterday. Not quite as sore, not as hard to get from seated to standing, not as painful when I cough. Morale better than yesterday too. Yesterday I felt like I was going to take forever to feel better. Today gave me hope. Yesterday was a bit boring as I didn’t feel like doing much and too uncomfortable to sleep, which had to be done…