Okay, I’m finally online again and am recovering slowly at home still. To say the last six weeks have been a blur would be an extreme understatement, and I’m not sure where to start. First off, I have to say that I had no clue about the seriousness of the surgery (first one) and I clearly underestimated my recovery time. Marcia kept trying to tell me that I wouldn’t be back to work as soon as I had kept telling everyone that I would be.
So a quick review is in order. I went in for my colon resection and as everyone probaby knows, the day before I was due to get released, I had a couple episodes of my tachycardia, and they ended up keeping me a few extra days. Went home and had to go back on Thursday for my heart ablasion to fix the tachycarida, which was outpatient surgery, so I was home that evening.
The following Sunday is when I my colon burst and I was rushed back for emergency surgery. The pain was something that I’ve never felt and I hope to never feel anything like that again. So I have a colostomy but the plan is to reverse it in about 6 months or so.
It’s been painful to sit in front of a computer for more than a 20 minutes or so, hence the reason I haven’t been online. I plan on going back to work next week, assuming all goes well this week. I’m still rediscoverying the kinds of foods I can eat and dealing with nausea more often than not, but I’m getting my strength back. And I can’t believe I lost 25 pounds!
I need to say THANKS for all the cards, letters, emails, books, and magazines everyone has sent. Your correspondence means everything to me and I really appreciate it. And though it may sound obvious, I have to publicly thank my family for being there every day at the hospital keeping my spirits up. Sadly, I discovered that there are lots of hospital patients that don’t get visitors at all. And finally, Marcia has been my rock in all of this as she has had to deal with all the stress of trying to take care of me and still dealing with day-to-day job and home issues. We’re still learning how to change my colostomy bag, and she’s changing my incision dressing every other day as well. I can’t imagine dealing with this without her. She means everything to me.
