It has been six weeks since my surgery, and I will have to return to at least some portions of my real life. Here are some of the things I will miss about recovery:
- Getting dressed whenever I want, if at all
- Watching The Doctors and Everybody Loves Raymond reruns (and really guilty pleasures, the occasional Bewitched or Beverly Hillbillies rerun)
- Flowers, cards, gifties like tea, candy, and stuffed animals to hold on my belly, getting taken to lunch (some overlap in attention here in that my birthday occurred during the recovery period)
- Getting asked how I feel all the time
- Permission to be self-centered
- Playing with my scrapbook stuff (did not get many actual pages done, but played with my stuff a lot...organizing photos and supplies, cutting out things for future projects)
- Doing silly things like decoupaging wooden tissue boxes
Here are things I won't miss:
- Not being able to play with my dog
- Pain, soreness, discomfort
- The inability to find a comfortable position to sit or sleep
- Not being able to watch a comedy special or a funny movie because it hurts too much to laugh
- The Creeping Weepies
- Boredom!
So right now I'm in the middle...have not been officially "released" yet, but know I will be soon, and feeling well enough to participate in some, but not all, the stuff of life.
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