I’ve had about a 4 hour nap in total today. I guess the last 2 days really tired me out. I did get some things done around here in between the naps. I’ve had a good day. Peaceful and quiet. The pain is just a nag with the occasional jab today rather than a continual jab like it’s been and that’s good. Tomorrow I get my stitches out.
Tag: sleep
driving
Note to self-Make sure your next car is an automatic, not a standard. Shifting gears is killer when your chest muscle is still healing on the shifting side. I’m really glad I have a ride to Abbotsford tomorrow. I’d never make it driving myself.
Surgeon says the incision is healing well, and looks good. There’s a little seepage and she put a new bandage on but says the plastic surgeon should be able to take it off permanently tomorrow. Let’s hope he thinks it’s healing well too. She was going to give me sleeping pills because I’m not sleeping thru the night but I reminded her that I have no life and can have a nap if I need to. No need for sleeping pills.
grumpy
I decided to sleep in my bed last night instead of propped up in my normal place on the couch. Bad move. Woke up at 4am because of pain. Guess I overdid it yesterday with my hoo ra’s over the drains gone and no more cancer to take out. It’s made me grumpy so I’ll be sleeping on the couch again tonight. Had to go get groceries today and it was really hard to not say something mean and nasty to my mom just cause I wanted to lash out. I’m so tired of being in pain. Can’t wait for that first day when there isn’t any. The stoopid thing is my sister and niece went and got their nails done while mom and I, the 2 gimps had to get the groceries. Poor mom had to pack it all into the car cause I can’t lift anything yet. We made the fit and now nail funky people pack it all into the house. No shopping cart for them!
they didn’t tell me
I am in a world of hurt. They didn’t tell me that the implants would be so painful. What the surgeon said they did is rip the muscle off my chest and sew it back over the implant. After she did the mastectomy. This is about a 7 or 8 on the pain scale and I will be taking pain killers. And I’m staying at my sister’s for a couple of days because I literally cannot move my right side.Sharing a room this time sucked. I didn’t get any sleep between the little old lady with a broken hip who kept calling out in her sleep, and the little asian guy who would go into the bathroom, come out and go right back in about 6 or 7 times in a row. My bed was beside the bathroom. I am going back to sleep now.
Connie's Breast Cancer Journey 