RTKR was Tuesday, and it is now Friday evening. I think I'm doing pretty good, and at least this time don't have the allergic reaction to the adhesive over my incision. They used Sheri- strips and some other strip to cover. However, with the bleedingekae I had on the first and second days, I am wearing a wound vac to suck up any excess blood. No big deal, and haven't even seen any blood go up the tube....so obviously, it must have stopped bleeding. I go in on Tuesday to have it all removed.
I seem to be managing my pain pretty well, and sleep well in my living room recliner. Hubby sleeps out here, too, and then helps me rise from my chair to go to the bathroom, fills the ice machine with new frozen water bottles topped with ice, re-wraps the tubing and pad from my ice machine, and resets the wedge pillow under my legs so they lay at a nice straight position, elevated to reduce the swelling, and with the ice temp on the 1 setting since I use I throughout the night. We also set our Echo Dot by saying, "Alexa, set a timer for 4 hours". When it goes off, I take my meds and reset the timer for another 4 hours. It all works like clockwork, no pun intended. I think in another few nights hubby can go back to sleeping in our bedroom. I think I can manage on my own once I don't require the walker. The most difficulty I have is filling the ice cooler and getting it back over to my chair when I have to hold onto a walker. We'll see how long it takes, but thankful hubby is willing to help me with this task.
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