Slowly but sure...I think?

Well...I'm sorry for the delay.

I'm on day 11 of healing and I'm still BAD! In fact, I got a little worse these last couple of days.

I saw the doctor on Friday and he did HORRENDOUS things to clean my nose (by far...the most painful procedure yet) and he said that while I was healing nicely, I had a very extensive, painful surgery and I should expect to spend a good bit of time recovering.

I decided to venture out today to Fresh Market and buy a tomato and had to rush back home before I passed out. Matt actually had to help me into the door.

I am pathetic....but apparently, "pathetic" is very common amongst patients of this surgery so I'm not letting it defeat me!

I'm refusing to read any of your blogs because I'm too jealous of your active lives and frankly, I'm just that petty!

I have a million ideas for thought provoking blogs since all I could do for the last week and a half is lay around and think but the task of typing them just wears me out!

So, for now...I'm still sick and hurting and bored and depressed and VERY TIRED OF WATCHING MOVIES, but I will survive.

Maybe.

One mother's dream-another's...

I don't know how to be sick.

I usually allow 24-48 hours at the most but this whole stay in bed for a week is crazy!! I'm completely bored!

I talked to my doctor today and after scolding me for blowing my nose (ouch) he informed me that days 7-10 will be a relapse of pain and then I should be ready to go. My sister threatened me not to do anything that will prohibit flying in three weeks and my neighbor told me some horrendous story about her husband trying to get up too soon and then being sent to bed for 8 weeks! WHA-HUH??

So, Sam vacuumed my room and dusted it to keep me more apt to stay in bed and I'm re-discovering the internet!

Thank goodness, my best friend is on vacation with a computer because I've been sitting here with my eyes peeled to my inbox shooting amusing e-mails back and forth with her! If you are wanting my full attention then NOW is the time to send me a letter. I thought of starting a "Dear Abby" blog so I could spend my days giving my opinion on situations of concern! That always makes me happy....

Any online gaming site suggestions are welcomed! There are only a bazillion to choose from and I don't know what any of these games are??? Anybody want to play cards with me?

I did enjoy an online makeover site where I got to look at different hairstyles and glasses and such...I'm pretty much sticking with my current beauty regime....yeah.

I'm thinking about forcing myself to watch Schindler's List again. That's one that will keep you from self-pity.

This may be one mother's dream but not mine. My garden is calling me and the sun thinks that I've gotten a conscience about safe skin care!

Five more days...Five more days...

Slow but Sure...and a little bit of hope from Josh!

This will be short and sweet.

I'm going into day 5 and am finally able to eat a bit. I went 5 hours without pain medication instead of 4 so yee-haw!

I was beginning to think I was a total wimp but this article by Josh Grobin about his own tosilectomy made me feel better. I've wanted to cry every other minute but I tried it on day three for 15 seconds and I couldn't breathe the rest of the night. The nose surgery has been just as bad if not worse than the throat. I would never recommend doing both to anyone.

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Recovering from tonsil surgery can be tough at first.

"I woke up and took a sip of apple juice," says Groban, "and it was probably the most painful thing I ever experienced in my life. I didn't drink anything else the rest of the day."

At the time Groban had his tonsillectomy, he had just had appeared on Oprah with strep throat. "I was so ready to get those out of my body that I was willing to have the pain," says Groban. "I woke up and said 'Thank God they're out of there.'"

"His tonsillectomy had a very short recuperation period — about two weeks," notes Romano. "Now he's back singing and his voice is better than ever."

"I was talking in three days," says Groban. "Vicodin can do amazing things. For the three hours that the Vicodin affected me, I could talk and I could eat even, but as soon as it wore off I couldn't drink one drop. So it really depended on how medicated I was. I ate soft foods again in three or four days. I was talking again comfortably in a week and a half, and singing again in two and a half weeks."

"Having my tonsils out didn't change the sound at all; in fact it really helped because it freed up my throat," adds Groban. "Having them out helps me to breathe and sing much easier. Now that they are gone a weight has been lifted off my shoulders. I don't fear that I am going to get a sore throat any more."

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Thanks for all the prayers, support, calls, flowers (and my beauiful new purse, Anne-You really know the way to my heart!).

I'd like to say that I'll follow up with one of my expected posts with all the humorous antics from my surgery and recovery but to be truthful, this has been the most physically painful experience of my life-and I've had two children. I'm not caring to re-live it in any way.

I had a reaction to two medications that I was given and have been pulled off my antibotic. Hopefully, I will not develop an infection. The same think happened when I lost my baby and spent four days in the hopsital on iv's.

If can happen to me-it will. *sigh*

Back to sleep now...

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