Crabs!

May 17, 2013

In case anyone is interested or hasn’t noticed, I am crabby! Try this on for size...keep your left foot above your heart 23 out of 24 hours a day. Said foot must be iced (not the incision sides) 20 minutes out of each hour while you are awake. Drink plenty of fluids and then be prepared to run to the bathroom frequently. Lift the seat, turn, sit and after doing your business spin around again, stand on one foot to balance while pulling up your drawers or scoot around to prop against the sink to wash your hands. By the way, you are also uncomfortably constipated due to all of the medications you are ingesting so munching prunes constantly and swallowing stool softener are in order as well. The fan should be turned on every time you go to the restroom…just in case you get lucky! Isn’t this fun? Timer is set for every four hours throughout the night to take the three medications which you also have to take with food, if you can find those snacks in the dark. And plenty of water, which makes you “go.” You will be leaping over three sleeping dogs to get to the bathroom so that is always a joyous obstacle course. The laptop cord occasionally scoots out of socket and you lose all of your work since the battery isn’t charging properly and it is an inexplicably ghastly long time to reboot. The cell phone doesn’t ring since it is not laying on the correct edge of the comforter to get reception. Texting doesn’t come easily due to large fingertips so bear with me. This is my life! I am definitely crabby…for another six to ten weeks time. Yahoo!