Recovering From Surgery
Saturday, November 21st, 2009 at 12:18 am · 7 views
The night before my surgery, I was a complete mess. My mind was in a million places and I was pacing the floor like a maniac. I could not focus on one thing for long. The twins were driving me crazy and nothing seemed to be going right. I just wanted a peaceful evening so I could relax and mentally prepare myself for the surgery. When all of the children finally went to sleep, I should have been in bed right after them. But nope. I found all kinds of stuff to do instead of sleep. I finished packing a suitcase for my hospital stay. I annoyed my husband a bit. I started cleaning the bedroom. I walked around our bedroom aimlessly.
Finally, my husband told me to get my ass in the bed. He didn’t say it in a mean way but he it was stern. I chuckled a bit on the inside then jumped in the bed. It took me a long while to go to sleep because I kept praying that everything would go well with the surgery. I don’t think that I had been this scared about anything in a very long time.
The next morning, I was a completely different person. I was not worried anymore about the surgery. I knew that everything would be okay because I left it in the hands of God. JT took the twins to school early that morning. I didn’t want them at the hospital with us because they would do nothing but worry about me and cry when they would see me after surgery. I thought to myself that I had put them through enough as of late. Also, hospitals are recommending for children to not visit hospitals due to the flu season unless they absolutely have to.
We left the house to go to the hospital late… and yes this was my fault. I should have woken up a little bit earlier. Then when we got on 270 North, the traffic was horrible, due to the rain. I tried to stay calm and not worry about being late to the hospital. I could tell that JT was panicking (on the inside). The hospital wanted us there at 7:30 and we arrived at 8:00. Not that bad right?


As I mentioned in a post the other day, I’m going to have surgery on Monday morning. This will be a diastasis recti and umbilical hernia surgery. Diastasis recti is a separation of the rectus abdominis muscle into right and left halves and was caused by my pregnancy with the twins and worsened with my second pregnancy. I also have an umbilical hernia.










