The achiness of me

[annwfyn]

I'm awake. Slept for five whole hours last night which is actually quite good for me. Since the operation I've been having to sleep on my back, almost sitting up and seriously propped up. It stops my stitches from hurting too much. Unfortunately it bears no resemblance to how I normally sleep, and so what I seem to have been doing since having my breasts chopped off is spend a lot of time cat napping. I get tired, I doze, I wake up, I get tired, I doze. I can't curl up and get a complete night's sleep. However, I think I had five and a half hours in total last night, so I'm definitely getting there.

In general I'm doing OK. I've been a bit out of it, and a bit groggy. Yesterday was a fairly bad day. The painkillers I was on were making me nauseous, so I decided to try and come off them and spent yesterday moving slowly from nauseous to achey. It wasn't great, but at the end of it I'm feeling a lot better. Aching is vastly preferable to wanting to puke.

I also manged to hug jez for the first time this morning for a while. That felt good. Yay me!

I'm not on e mail vast amounts at the moment, so I'm sorry if it takes me a while to catch to up with anything. I should be having my bandages off at the weekend, and I may be a bit brighter then. Until then, I'm alive.

puddingcat - any chance of calling you at some point? I'd love to have someone who knows how I'm feeling right now. You around, darlin'?

Comments

[taimatsu]

Glad you're around and about. I know the sleeping-sitting-up thing - when I had flu a while back it made it completely impossible for me to sleep at night, and I only got cat-naps during the day.

Lots of good thoughts heading your way - looking frward to seeing you when you are well enough.

[bringeroflight.livejournal.com]

{hugs}

Good to hear from you...

[aardnebby.livejournal.com]

Glad you are feeling better, hope things continue to improve!

Will be popping round during the week if I can get a day off (I have more holiday than I thought, but it's difficult to get time off at the moment).

[nickys.livejournal.com]

Very careful hugs.

Glad to hear you're improving. It is a big thing to go through, so it's bound to take time to get back to normal.

[headinclouds.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear you're doing okay, hon. Am thinking of you.

*careful hugs*

[melsner.livejournal.com]

I'd love to have someone who knows how I'm feeling right now.

My mother is always available for rentals.

She said that coming off the anaesthia (sp) was the worst part for her.

[greebotrill.livejournal.com]

You have our UK number hon.. Give us a call sometime :-)

Glad you are well. Now that it's done, how do you feel? I hope better

[twicedead.livejournal.com]

Um, quick question: Multimap says there is no steenkin' Acorn walk..?

[evilwillow.livejournal.com]

*gentle hugs*

Hope you get back to feeling good soon my dear

Wends
xx

[cairmen.livejournal.com]

*Avoids hugs scrupulously*

Yes, sleeping sitting up is a total pain. I suspect you'll get used to it about in time to be able to go back to sleeping normally...