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NaJoPoMo 2011 - 27th (Agapanthus is feeble)
Posted Nov 27, 2011
I just had a shower, and now I feel like I accidentally washed my vim right off. I'm sure that's not the effect showers are supposed to have.
I've had five general anaesthetics now, and the one thing I inevitably forget is that just because you've got sufficient strength back to sit on a sofa, drink tea, and knit, it doesn't mean you have the strength to stand for fifteen minutes, scrubbing away at yourself like a 1920's charwoman at a set of London front steps. OK, so I now smell nice and feel hygenic, but I am shaking like a leaf.
Idiot Agapanthus. This is why you were signed off work for a week.
Heigh ho. Needed doing. The shower, that is.
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NaJoPoMo 2011 - 26th (Agapanthus wonders)
Posted Nov 26, 2011
What on earth do I do now that the surgery hasn't done anything to mend me?
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NaJoPoMo 2011 - 25th (Agapanthus tries not to cough)
Posted Nov 25, 2011
I am lying almost flat in bed - most comfortable position right now - and getting in an extra dose of social life by rambling and ranting all over the internet. I feel quite well, if more than a little drunk (painkillers, anaesthetic hang-over. Not wine. I'm not allowed wine for DAYS). It's weird. I do feel rather uninhibited and noisy. Why this should go hand in hand with Unwellness and Discomfort I don't know.
Or, rather, it goes hand-in-hand with the weird hinterland between Unwellness and Discomfort (too much of either to do anything) and Fine (in which one can actually get up and do stuff). I have to stay in bed. Standing up is painful and makes me woozy. My husband is working from home today so he can make me tea and put up with my fussbiscuitery.
Anyway, I was expecting to feel a lot worse, so I am quite pleased.
Just no coughing or sneezing. Mustn't do that. OW.
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Agapanthus has been perforated
Posted Nov 24, 2011
The op went very smoothly, and I'm home again being looked after by Scrumph and my Mum. Alas, they (the surgeons, that is, not my husband and mother) couldn't really do anything about the mess they found in there. Probably the op went smoothly because all they did was open me up, pop the cameras in, say 'oh, BOTHER' and stitch me straight back up again.
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NaJoPoMo 2011 - 24th (Agapanthus is to be perforated)
Posted Nov 24, 2011
Dear all,
It's quarter-past-six, and I have already got up, showered, dressed, and had my last permitted glass of water. No breakfast, and the irony is that normally I'm never hungry when I first wake up and find making myself eat SOMETHING healthy before leaving for work a trial. The morning I'm not allowed to eat? Ravenous. I keep telling myself it's psychological but my stomach isn't buying it.
In a few minutes, Scrumph and I will be leaving for the Big Hospital - no, not that one, the other one, the one that's more of a pain to get to - and then Scrumph will take my wedding-ring, Oyster card, and any loose change I forgot to tip out of my pockets earlier and go home again, and I will change into a hospital gown and then I will WAIT.
I'm having a laparoscopy, you see. I've had one before, and the clearest memory I have of the entire day was the WAIT (with no knickers on. Nurse was stern about that. I didn't see why I couldn't leave them on until my turn to be loaded onto the gurney, but no. Despite the fact I got there at 7:30 and didn't have the surgery until 1:30. And I don't feel like a proper, competent grown-up without knickers) and the THIRST. I was allowed a cup of tea when I came round and it being NHS tea it was brewed to tar and normally I'd've discreetly tipped it into a bed-pan, but I was SO thirsty it was Nectar of the Gods.
Fingers crossed they find something simple to treat in there. I dread coming round to be told 'well, you need MAJOR surgery in another few months time...'. Even more I dread being told 'well, there's nothing in there we can actually operate on, so...'
I want a bacon sandwich.
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