It strikes me as rather odd how muscles you never consciously used before are so imperative for your daily life. The muscles that the surgeon and his staff cut through to do my surgery for example (and you have seen the incisions) are abdominal muscles. While I sort of recognized that I use these muscles on a fairly regular basis, I never realized just how often that regular basis was. I mean these suckers hurt! The muscles around the incisions and the abdominal region in general actually hurt more than the incisions themselves. They burn, ache, and almost feel as if they're stripped of whatever toning might have been present.
I never realized that I used these muscles for so many activities. Laying down in bed, turning over in bed, reaching for the refill rolls of toilet paper stored above my toilet, making tea, walking! Walking! Of all the things I use my abs for walking? I mean these muscles seriously burn like lit match being put out on soft flesh. Oy! I just picked up a cup of tea and that made them flex.
How are these muscles supposed to heal and recover from the trauma if I am constantly using them? This doesn't seem logical.
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So I've been on a clear liquid diet for more than a week now and I am sick of this crap! I want food! I'm tired of peeing all day long! I'm not even taking my water pill and I still pee constantly. If it isn't peeing its the other end. It's really good that I don't really have anything that technically needs to be done, because I'd never get it done.
I'm really looking forward to the pureed food section of this diet, which I hope will arrive on Wednesday. This will mean a whole new variety of happy foods like yogurt, cottage cheese, ricotta cheese, pudding, the pureed cantelope and white peaches that have been staring me down. I'm really looking forward to the tomato bisque soup, cream of chicken and so forth that is in the cupboard. It's not so much insatiable hunger that is the problem it is the fact that having to consume 30cc's of liquid every half hour can get awfully boring when your food choices are limited to clear liquids alone. I also would like to get more protein in, I know it will help with my healing, but how can I get in more protein when I'm on clear liquid? I know that there are nutritional supplements, but I haven't been able to find them in the stores. I suppose that I could order them from the internet, but at this point I'm not sure its worth it. When I'm on the cusp of the pureed food stage of the diet and I can mix the Cookies and Cream 100% Whey Protein from GNC in with the pudding, cottage cheese, and so on; I just don't see the purpose of buying yet another protein supplement.
Anyway, I should find out by tomorrow if I can move on to pureed foods. Might even be allowed to start driving. In fact, I think that I have taken my last dose of Roxicet. I'm switching to Tylenol to kill the healing pains. That way when they say that I can start driving as soon as I've given up the prescription pain meds, I can start driving immediately. Going stir crazy??? Yes...just a bit. I need to go to the library. I want to go knit with my girls at Natural Stitches. I want out of this self induced prison sentence called an apartment!
Better get going. The home nurse is coming in an hour and half or so. Need to make sure I'm ready.
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