Ahhhhhhh.

Took longer to get back than I thought! The fatigue factor is pretty high and so is the mental lethargy from the anesthesia. My brain is definitely not at it's peak performance-- it feels strange, kind of like my thoughts are under water and I have to spend time fishing for them, as opposed to them leaping out of the water as they usually do.

I feel very very very good today. Tomorrow is one week post-op and every day really is significantly better than the last. I got up today (Rob is still helping me up from the sleeping position since my abs aren't cooperating yet)and I actually got dressed for the first time; by dressed I mean I put on sweats with a waist band rather than the long tee shirt night gowns I've grown to love during this process.

I ate a great breakfast (the Recovery Breakfast, as Rob calls it: egg whites, vegetarian sausage patties, juice with a vitamin C packet added to it, and a piece of toast) and then felt motivated to go out and walk around my (very small) cul-de-sac two times!!

It felt great.

All of my postural muscles are still not cooperating, so I put my belly band on to give me some support and to help reduce my bad-ass case of the dreaded "swelly belly".

Post-op my stomach was flat as a newly paved road, but the onset of sewlly belly makes me look like something between Humpty Dumpty and the proverbial "beached whale". Ahhhh this too shall pass.

The most amazing thing that is starting to happen is that I am more and more able to realize how much pain and discomfort I was in with such huge fibroids inside of me. I had adjusted so well, I didn't recognize abnormal. I already feel tremendous relief on my left side, down by my hip. It got difficult to lift my leg without an annoying tugging feeling-- that's gone!

I had a numb spot on my left foot, that's gone! The large fibroid that I had protruding toward my back must have been putting pressure on some spinal nerves...and I am very happy that that is now gone.

Imagine having a cantaloupe pressing into your rectum and putting pressure on your pelvic floor muscles; and now imagine not having that anymore. Yeah-- the whole bathroom experience is completely different!!

All in all I am feeling better every day and I am looking forward to tomorrow because I know I'll feel even better than I do today.