January 12/2017

I just wanted to talk about the things that are difficult since my surgery. I still have very little feeling under my arms and along my shoulders on my back. My doctor says it is all normal. But it is making it very difficult to shave under my arms. I am scared to cut myself. With no feeling it would be very easy to cut me. Lucky for me I am not a very hairy person and I don’t have to shave to much. Because that would be nasty.  Lol 

I also was very excited when I found out I had a female doctor. I thought good because being a woman she will understand about my vanity…….. I thought my incisions would be very nice and neet. Not So….. My nurse navigator says not to worry once the swelling and brushing all go away it will look better. But I am 3 1/2 weeks in and it still looks pretty ugly. I still have very brused ribs. That is causing some of the pain I have. Although I totally have my pain under control..brused ribs even hurt just when I sit. If I slouch it is very uncomfortable. Hopefully this will cure me from slouching. I have also tried to wear my tank/ bras but they sit right at my ribs and hurt too. I know these are really small problems considering what I have been through. But I would like to get back to some kind of normal. But this healing is very slow. Slower than I expected anyway. 

I have had a pretty quiet week staying in most of it. Trying hard to get my strength back. I am also getting much more movement in my arms. Washing my hair is getting easier everyday. After my pelvis was broke I had very limited use of my legs for 12 weeks. I thought that was so tough. But no arms has not been very good either. Just doing little things has been so hard like opening a pill bottle, I had no strength to get the lid off. Today I opened my pain meds myself. I had trouble making my bed just pulling the covers up was hard.( I like my bed made everyday. Jamie has been doing this for me)  Yesterday I actually took it all apart and washed it and put it back together.Even cooking I had to get Jamie to lift the pots and pans for me. But I did it myself for the first time yesterday. I don’t mean to brag. But it sure feels good to see a little bit of success in all these areas. It is the small things like this that make me feel so good 

Finally I need to clear something up. I wrote a few nights ago about getting some of my things in order. I wrote that Mac wanted nothing to do with my china cabinet full of Angels. It kind of made him sound a little bit misserable. But really it is about me. I probably have about 5000 angels and angel stuff. Mac has no where to put all those angels  even if he did want them. It has kind of been a joke between us. That I take care of my angels so he dosent have too. So that is what I have done. Lol lol . Thanks again Danielle…Sorry Mac I know you love me Angels and all. 😇

One last thing. I have quite a lot of friends and family reeding my blog, and I thank you all. It has been so good for me to get this all out. It has been very good for my healing. But my blog company needs me to have followers. Which I only have “6”  so if all of you who are following me would go to the bottom of my blog and click on follow. It will prompt you to put your e-mail in. Then my blog will have followers. Thanks to anyone who does this for me. ❤️❤️

Beth 😇