Day 25

Day 25 of my post-op recovery from a laparotomy/abdominal myomectomy:

When my sister saw me today, she remarked wow, my walking was much better, much faster. (She hasn’t seen me since Day 10.) Pleased, I said, yep, I’m walking just fine now. She watched me carefully and said, “Yeah, you’re *almost* at normal speed now.” Her reply took me by surprise – I mean, it was true, but I had thought I could pass for normal speed and no one would notice. I guess she really is my lifelong sister.

Even though I hadn’t had any Advil for over 3 days, which technically meant I was allowed to drive, we decided she’d go ahead and drive me to my doctor’s appointment, since she was here anyway. No, not to see my gynecologist/surgeon, but to see my primary care physician. My eczema is DRIVING ME UP THE WALL.

This was the first time my PCP had seen me since she gave me the results of my CT scan and I learned this mass was a fibroid. She said she had been wondering how I was doing and was very happy to then receive my gynecologist’s report that the surgery was a success and the pathology report came back benign. She asked if my uterus had been saved, so that I would be able to have kids in the future. I had meant to bring pictures of the fibroid and its crazy blood vessels to show her, but unfortunately forgot.