Sunday, March 18, 2007
SHOWERING WITH A SEXY MAN, SARAN WRAP AND DUCT TAPE...SOUNDS KINKY EH
Sponge baths are certainly better then nothing but there's nothing like a shower to make u feel clean. I have my first surgery follow up tomorrow. I am looking forward to seeing exactly what they will do. I believe there will be a weigh in and measurements taken etc.
I have lost 32.5 lbs as of today.
I also needed to get my hair washed. Leaning over the kitchen sink position would pull to hard on the stitches so....
We pulled out the saran wrap and duct tape. Chris taped the saran wrap over my bandage and we jumped in the shower. YES WE ARE WILD AND CRAZY ...all that was missing was handcuffs and babyoil? ....NOT!
So with the help of my sexy wet frenchman, I washed my hair while he held down the seams of the ducttape at the base of my neck. Soaped everything up and VOILA...
OMG I feel clean!!
Only 4 more days till my stitches are removed. He better not stick a new bandage on it and tell me not to get it wet..I swear I will lose it and start screaming so the ppl in the waiting room think he is torturing me.
I will post after tomorrow. Let u know what the follow up visit is all about.
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
THE HUNCHBACK IS NO MORE!!!
YAY! It's done!....The bells will tole no longer! As I was brought into the room by the nurse to change, the 2 nurses wanted to see my *hump* and were both surprised at it's size to which I replied, I am the hunchback of Montreal. They thought that was funny and as I was changing I heard them tell the surgeon who laughed heartily in the operating room waiting for me.
As I nervously made my way towards the operating table, I told them all, I had to get this done as I had started to have the urge to drag a leg behind me when I walk...They all cracked up and I felt abit more at ease by trying to be goofy to cut down on my nervousness.
The doc let me know step by step what he was doing. He drew a nice circle on my back, outlining the *hump* then proceeded to freeze the area with a needle all around. It stung quite alot...everytime he stuck me with it but half way around the circle he drawn, it subsided.
He explained that I would feel preasure here and there as he worked to liberate the *problem*. I honestly didn't feel anything..the freezing was doing a great job. However I could feel my body shake and I felt dizzy and told him so but he assured me it was caused by my own anxiousness. He kept me talking as he poked and proded.
At one point, given it's mass....I could feel his foot on my back as he gruntingly used a whalehook to pry it's gurth from me, with both nurses pulling on him for more leverage!
KIDDING!
But I did feel at one point he was proding alot lol. He explained that he had to make sure there was nothing left to better prevent it from coming back. I wanted to see what he removed oddly enough. As he was stitching me up he passed the bowl to the nurse to show me. Yes it was gross but I just had to see. Call me weird. It was just alot of fatty tissue, I would say more then half a lb even.
He did 3 layers of stitches. the 2 inner layers are the melting kind ofcourse but I have to go back next week Thursday to have the outer ones removed. They have totally bandaged everything up with a sticky plastic cover over all that I have to keep on untill I go back ARG!... No shower, can't get it wet. Washcloth baths and I will have to wash my hair in the sink untill then.
Monday, March 12, 2007
DREADING TOMORROW.....
It will be local, so only frozen ACK!...I was less aprehensive about the big surgery then this one, only because I knew I would be out cold for it lol. I know ...very silly.
I have a large lump/hump, behind my neck/shoulder...it started out very subtle..and has slowly grown over the last 3 yrs. It is apparently a sort of fat deposit..many ppl get them, and they can be anywhere. Luckily my hair has always been long enough to cover it up. I never tie up my hair though, it's to apparent. Up till now it's not been a big issue..I always had the intention of having it removed but now sooner then later.
I have started having a sore neck/shoulder area because of it, so it's now time.
But mostly, I have lately had the overwhelming urge to drag a leg behind me when I walk . I also feel the need to rasp ''MASTAAA'' in a lispy voice. Yes Mastaaa, No Mastaa....where's the bell Mastaa?
So as of tomorrow, the hunch back of Moon's house will be no more.
The good news is I will probably lose a whole lb tomorrow haha. Yes, its quite substancial. It should take about 30 minutes in all the doctor said. I am so NOT looking forward to it. Even if logically I know I won't feel anything, I will hear it all, and that kinda freaks me out.
So tomorrow morning around 9:30am..I will be in the operating room...getting a lb of flesh ripped off me...and I wasn't even a bad girl!! How's that for fair!
Wish me luck..or just pray I don't whine like a baby......for Chris' sake.