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less red eye, part 3

I woke this morning with a much less red eye. YIPPEE!
Here’s a photo I took about 5 minutes ago. In my kitchen. With the overhead light shining in my eyes. Obviously, it’s not a great photo, but you get the idea. Less red, a little puffy, and still quite green. [...]

red eye, part 2

When I woke up this morning, my eye was still red. I called one of the doctors I work for and went in to his office at 11am. After staining my eye and peering at it with a black light, he said there’s no scratch on it. He then said it must [...]

red eye

I woke up today with my red eye almost solid red, very puffy, and with lots of sinus pressure behind the eye. By afternoon it had cleared up a bit (with the help of antihistamines and eye drops). Here’s what it looked like about 3 hours ago.

If it’s still bad tomorrow morning, I’ll [...]

better and better

I’m not sure if it’s that I’ve only had two caffeinated drinks since before the surgery (and couldn’t sleep on those nights - not doing that again anytime soon!),
or that I’ve not had aspartame (I think this could have been the cause of my headaches & constant tummy upsets.. either the aspartame or the cola [...]

healing

I’m amazed by how much better I feel. Each day I can see a marked difference in the level of energy I have. I think I feel better today than I have in years!
Each day, I have a bit more energy and a bit less pain (hardly any now at incision sites & [...]

visit to the doctor

I went to the doctor today & saw the nurse practitioner. She checked everything out & said I’m healing nicely. She said that the pain & the feeling that everything is falling out is normal for the procedures & repair work that I had done. The stitches are all healing nicely. [...]

appointment tomorrow

When I was talking with Mom this afternoon, I told her that my insides feel like they’re going to fall out if I’m standing up, walking or sitting up for a few minutes. She remembers feeling like this after childbirth, like I do, but said she thought I should call the doctor just to make [...]

Surgery

I had the surgery on Thursday afternoon. It was a 2 hour procedure. I’m now minus one large uterus. My doctor said a healthy uterus is the size of a small lime. My unhealthy uterus was the size of a large grapefruit. Ick! I’m thankful to be rid of [...]

it’s getting better…

I’m still tired, but the stresses are gradually being marked off my list.
I bought a car today.
3 days down & only one more to go this week with the 9 hour days.
Less than 36 hours until I get to hug DD11 again.
All that’s left is the hysterectomy - and that’s not going to be done [...]

ear candling?

Have you ever seen ear candling?
I saw it for the first time today.  I saw someone standing beside someone sitting in a chair holding a big wax funnel type thing that was on fire at one end. It looked like a huge cigar that was on fire. They did not use a protective [...]