Healing...at a Turtle's Pace

It has been 2 weeks since my emergency surgery. My incisions are healing up with new scars. My drainage tube area has a pink looking scab. I have been taking it easy, doing very little.

I went back to work this past week. Half days at my full time job, and I was on all week in radio. I missed my coworkers. They are very helpful with the few things I am not allowed to do yet. My radio family told me it is too hot for me to be at Bike Night and to stay home, so I have. But it is nice to be back to a regular routine. And the Red Wing Blackbirds sang to me when I got to work!

I saw my doctors for follow up visits. My surgeon told me to limit lifting anything more than 20 pounds for another month. My primary care doctor told me to walk, stay hydrated and try to eat more. I don't have much of an appetite but I try to eat healthy when I am hungry.

Last night I got off work, I was hungry. So I went to Frybread Mama's for a frybread burger. I got a deluxe and a plain frybread. I ate the burger and half the frybread. This morning I had the rest of the frybread, it was delicious. But later ...started this afternoon...I am in pain. Not sick, but major gas type pains as my intestines are moving that frybread through. OMG!!! I hope this is not a new side effect of my appendix surgery, I LOVE frybread!

I have been sleeping good, other than last night. I could not sleep last night. Oh well. and since I could not sleep.. I was shopping online, I ordered myself some essential oils for sleep. I take enough prescription medicines, I would like to get away from them. So...I will see if the oils help. And I ordered another muumuu. Yup...I will be that crazy cat lady who wears colorful muumuus. They are comfortable and don't rub against my healing scars.

My primary doctor also had labs drawn on me. Almost all of my bloodwork came back good. However, my CA 125, the cancer marker, has elevated, it is double what it was in May. This bloodwork was done a week after my surgery. It worries me, but I am not going to dwell on it. I know when I see my Oncologist in July, she will have more tests and we will go from there.

I will continue to take it easy. I am feeling better each day. I have taken rock climbing off my schedule or goal for this summer, I know I can't do it this year. But I will next year! No dancing in pow wows, none of my dresses fit, and I don't have the energy, but I do want to go and be a spectator.

Life has been testing me, a lot. I think I am doing a pretty damn good job handling everything that comes my way. I know I will get thru it all, because GOD never gives me more than I can handle, and right now, he wants me to be a turtle and take it slow.