Recovery

For the past week since Randy's surgery he has been slowly recovering. We were told that his incisions would have seepage and that has been true. Not much thankfully but he has had a little bit of blood and some watery looking stuff as well.

The first couple of days after the surgery were rough. Partly because we were traveling home and also because those first couple of days are the worst ones after surgery. He was on a lot of pain meds. Which reminds me of the night right after the surgery...

We had to set alarms for when he had to take pain pills because once you have a lapse in those it's hard to get the pain back under control. So we both set our alarms for the 2 times he'd have to wake up in the night to take them. The first alarm went off and it took a little bit before Randy finally woke up enough to take them. The next time the alarm went off I think he was pretty delirious. I had pressed snooze on mine just in case he took just as long as the first time for him to take them. When my alarm went off again and he still hadn't taken them I nudged him and said that he needed to wake up and take his medicine. He said that he would. When he still didn't, I nudged him again and told him to take it and this time he pretty much yelled at me saying "CHILL, I WILL TAKE IT!" Not quite an actual yell but he was not happy lol. (he rarely if ever yells) It took him probably another 5 minutes and then I finally heard him sit up and take his medicine. Once he had I asked him if he remembered yelling at me. He said kinda but not what he said. So I told him and then teased him about it because it was so out of character for him.

He went back to work last saturday and he attempted to wear normal pants. Not the best idea ever. He complained to me half way through his shift that it was rubbing his incisions and making them hurt. He had to suffer through it til the end of his shift and then he immediately took his pants off when he got home. He wore sweats to work for the next few days. When he finally wore pants again I asked him when he called me how he was and the first thing he said was hungry and then immediately after that he couldn't wait to get his pants off! (They had been rubbing his incisions and he couldn't wait to get into sweats)

Randy's incisions are healing up slowly but nicely and he is not using as much pain meds as he was at the beginning. He will soon have all his restrictions that were given to him at discharge lifted and he'll be able to live a normal life again! He's felt bad because he has not been allowed to lift anything heavy and so our sidewalk has suffered snow drifts for a week. (They have now been cleared thanks to Randy) He got frustrated and took a small shovel and did small scoops of snow until it was cleared (or so he says - not sure if I fully believe him about the small scoops) :)

Overall we are both just grateful that he is healing so quickly and so well and we can't wait until we see what the doctor has to say in his follow up appointment in a couple months!

Til next time!
Becca