Endo Excision: Day 7

Recovery Update Day #7

One week ago, I was JUST getting out of surgery at this time. I can barely believe it's been that long. I have to keep remembering that healing (both physically and mentally) is not linear. There will be setbacks; there will be better and worse days.

Saturday night at around 9pm, I sneezed very suddenly and I've been back to feeling VERY uncomfortable ever since. I'd weened myself entirely off the Norco that day, switching to Tylenol and Motrin 800, but I immediately chose to get back on the Norco when the next pill alarm came around. I am still planning to stay on the Norco through today at this point. I was hoping to go downstairs at some point this weekend but I think that's out of the question until at least tomorrow. I'm still camped upstairs and in bed and that's where I'm going to stay.

On other fronts, my appetite is nearly normal. I'm hungry all the time and *most* foods sound good, minus anything spicy. We've ordered nigiri and sushi as well as Mexican yesterday (mine was ordered very bland but it sounded SO GOOD). I didn't expect to be able to stomach whole foods this quickly but I'm certainly grateful I can.

I think the bloat/inflammation in my upper abdomen is starting to come down quite a lot. Trish keeps joking that she can see a 'shadow of an ab', if you know you know. I can see it in pictures but it doesn't feel like it as the person living in this body. But overall, I think the inflammation is going down. As a result of that, I think my organs are now trying to figure out how to exist in a way they haven't in literal decades. So more pain, with or without the sneezemergency. Gravity is not my friend but at least I have a few days of Norco left to help.

I have been hanging out on Twitch all day as streamers I know and love have been helping us raise more funds here! It's been really cathartic and I'm just honored that so many people are willing to help us for this entire upcoming week. It's a nice reminder that people care. They do listen and want to do what they can. It's been a refreshing restoration in humanity, even though I know Twitch is so much more optimistic than most IRL or internet spaces.

I'm much more ok than I was yesterday, and again I say, for myself and for anyone who needs to hear it - healing is not linear. I'm ok today and that's the best I can do. I'm hoping that'll be true for the next day and the day after that, but we'll just have to see.

(If you want to keep up with the Twitch schedule of streamers fundraising for us, check my instagram/facebook stories!)