First Day Driving
07/15/13 -5 weeks out - I drove for the first time today! Very liberating! I just started feeling a bit like myself about a week and a half ago. Light house work, running errands with hubby...I push it to 4 hours but I really am exhausted at about 2. It is still better if I do not try to walk and talk at the same time. Still get very out of breath but if I am sitting and calm I can have a bit of conversation without the heavy breathing. But get me moving a little bit and here it comes. Off and on I get sharp chest pain but it always goes away. My recovery from the Hysto took longer due to the Coumadin, so I just stopped bleeding also.
My intestines have not been happy for 5 weeks! I wonder if it is because of the Coumadin. I have been prescribed a probiotic for that and iron for anemia brought on by the Coumadin. So with those two meds the symptoms have been masked. I am not complaining. I cannot believe it...time has flown..yet I do not feel as if I am completely myself. I will take what I can get though!
My daughter needed a bit of time to herself...she had to process everything...I understand. She said she needed to not see me sick. She was wonderful while I was in hospital...she stayed nights with me as Hubby could not sleep on that little reclining chair they had in there. Again...I wish my 24 year old didn't have to see me like that. I guess I just felt kind of thrown away once I got home. Not really though, it was just...that...that was the time...when everything calmed down....that I started being scared. Goodness, germs...will I ever be normal again...is my Husband getting sick of me being sick...Doctors...do they really know what they are talking about?....Germs...can't get sick again...and on and on it went. Again...I can breath....I can do it....I will NOT live in fear!
As I am still out of breath my Doctor put me out for another month. My FMLA will be up by then and they do not allow part time. I hope I am up to going back full time right off the bat. I work for an ENT...with sick people....I am getting stressed just thinking about it!
My intestines have not been happy for 5 weeks! I wonder if it is because of the Coumadin. I have been prescribed a probiotic for that and iron for anemia brought on by the Coumadin. So with those two meds the symptoms have been masked. I am not complaining. I cannot believe it...time has flown..yet I do not feel as if I am completely myself. I will take what I can get though!
My daughter needed a bit of time to herself...she had to process everything...I understand. She said she needed to not see me sick. She was wonderful while I was in hospital...she stayed nights with me as Hubby could not sleep on that little reclining chair they had in there. Again...I wish my 24 year old didn't have to see me like that. I guess I just felt kind of thrown away once I got home. Not really though, it was just...that...that was the time...when everything calmed down....that I started being scared. Goodness, germs...will I ever be normal again...is my Husband getting sick of me being sick...Doctors...do they really know what they are talking about?....Germs...can't get sick again...and on and on it went. Again...I can breath....I can do it....I will NOT live in fear!
As I am still out of breath my Doctor put me out for another month. My FMLA will be up by then and they do not allow part time. I hope I am up to going back full time right off the bat. I work for an ENT...with sick people....I am getting stressed just thinking about it!
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