I'm Back

I know it's been a week since I've given you guys an update. Here's what has been going on:

Although I was in the hospital for only two days, this surgery exhausted me. I didn't have the energy to sit at the computer. Pretty sad when you don't have the energy to sit and type, isn't it? Also, this surgery hurt... a lot. Granted, it did not hurt as much as #1 last year, but it did hurt much more than I anticipated. Four 1-1/2" incisions; one in each abdominal quadrant. When I told Todd that I was surprised at the pain level (we were in bed) he explained it to me this way: Pretend this bed is your abdomen. Your abdominal cavity is the space under the bed. They had to blow your abdominal cavity up with air (like lifting the bed up) in order to give the surgeon enough room to work through those FOUR incisions he made. He tightly rolled up a 6"x8" piece of mesh to adhere to the inside of your abdominal cavity. So I have, not just one big incision but FOUR smaller ones that (when added together) are almost the same length as the large mid-line incisions you had last year. I love it and I hate it when he explains things in a way that even I can understand.