2 Weeks Later

Posted on | January 28, 2010 | 2 Comments

Today I am two weeks post-op.

In some ways it feels like the surgery was forever ago, but my still inability to do simple things like pick something up off the ground or sleep on my side, reminds me that it wasn’t really all that long ago.

The first few days post-op are blurry. That first night it took two nurses to help me out of bed, and it was crazy painful. They want you to walk as soon as possible after surgery to help with healing, but it’s ouchy. Last Sunday, my first night home, I had Aaron wake me up during the night in order to take my pain medicine. But by Tuesday, I was off the prescription pain killers.

I had all of these things I wanted to do while I was recuperating: make a scrapbook from our NYC trip last summer; update my online photography portfolio; get all of my photography-related receipts entered in Excel; read books. And I have done approximately 0 percent of the things on my list. I’ve mostly done a lot of tweeting, watching Pixar movies on Netflix instant and relishing in how awesome the Buffy series was.

I’m trying to not focus on that too much, since after all the point of recovering is to recover, not catch up on my to do list, but still.

I feel so incredibly boring. My days are repetitive. The biggest difference is which dog is going to cuddle with me and cause my feet to fall asleep. (Current snugglers: Scout and Montego.)

I’m ready to go back to work. I’m ready to drive (anywhere!). I’m really ready to vacuum. (But I can’t do that for six weeks!)

But recovering is slow. And it’s (super) cold outside. So it’s okay if I watch another episode of Friends first, right?

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