Your recovery, in certain ways, mirrors mine---my scars were uber-sensitive, and I had to be very careful as to what clothes I could wear---I also rubbed some lotion on it, but it did take some time to become desensitized.
I am having a very hard time going to sleep and staying asleep.
This, without a doubt, was the most frustrating aspect of my recovery---I actually began to dread night-time. I would fall asleep for a 1/2-hour to an hour, then WHAM!!! I would be awake.
It was not that I was in pain, per ce, it was more of the idea that I could never get comfortable. I would wander around the house, from guest bed to couch to futon---eventually I would throw the futon mattress onto the floor and collapse there. My one yellow lab, ever loyal, would follow me around and sleep next to me.
I was very much like Diogenes---but instead of looking for one honest man, I was, like you, looking for one good night's sleep. I actually found this forum on a late night foray on the internet! (I watched just about every late-night re-run of
Law and Order ever produced.
I returned to the classroom at eight weeks (too early, but that is another story), and I had about two hours sleep on the night that I returned.
I ended up taking Ambien for ten nights---that settled my sleep pattern down and I moved on without any other issues.
My patience, like yours, was taxed, but I reached deep down inside myself and found patience that I did not know that I had.
Hang in there---the BTKR is worth it---and, down the road, you will be able to look back and see how you mastered this.
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Good books, good tv, sit in the park and watch kids play baseball, see a movie, have dinner out, etc....
