1 month post-op

I cannot believe it's been a month since surgery; last Friday was the exact month milestone. I've had the week-end to think about what it's been like the past month. Today, I actually walked for about 30- 40 mins around the store.. i was a little nervous that people may bump into me, but I noticed that I was standing up straighter and walking a little bit faster, and not shuffling like i was. My pain is more manageable now and I'm not taking as many Tylenols during the day as I used to.

Lessons learned?

1.  The pain does lessen with time; it's okay to take your pain meds to give your body a break.

2.  Take a nap when you need it.. it helps the body heal.

3.  Laughter is great medicine and stress reliever.. even when it was painful to laugh, we laughed. Even when there's infection and ugly scars, we laugh. Laughing really did help make me feel better.

4.  Don't sweat the small stuff... I'm still trying to learn this. Losing control of doing things is very hard for me. Asking for help for even the smallest things like putting on my pants, like getting up from the bed, etc, was hard in the beginning. Learning to allow others to help and not obsessing about the things i couldn't control is a good lesson to learn. 

5.  Be grateful and appreciate my blessings daily.  Whether it be family, friends, snow days, sunny days, homemade foods, beautiful flowers, gifts, money gifts, medicine, music, hot showers, being able to shave, support groups, nice clean painted bathrooms, visits from family and friends, phone calls, emails, blog comments, books, the Bible promises, doctors and medical teams who explain everything so well, my computer, Froy's camera and ipod, Valentine presents, scar lotions, cards, audio books, vegetable juice and a sister and husband who willingly juice for me...so many things to be thankful for. Thank you Lord for giving me so many blessings, for being faithful, for being our hope while we're in the tunnel.