4 weeks post surgery

4 weeks today since final surgery.Well the lomotil has definetly helped emensly. Very happy i can run around all day with very few bathroom stops, and push my body to get in shape.Yesterday was the first day since surgery that i worked along side my guys and it felt good.Slept like a baby last night.Hole was 3 1/2 x 2 1/2 when i got out of hospital and should be closed up in week or 2.Changing gauze myself now.So now just wondering when body kicks in a little more to create some form of solid stool if that ever happens.Valli,Song and others from class of 2018 i hope your all on the positive side of recovery

Quincy there's a line u need to be careful about crossing after any surgery. With surgery we had of course getting a hernia is something u need to worry about. I had a large Stoma hole that is closing well. So after hernia what should we be careful of??? Getting wind,endurance,strength back etc. My guys do all the lifting so I'm being careful there. Just working a good 8 hour day felt good yesterday. Now getting things done yesterday made today an easy day for me. Guys are working at job site and I'm running around doing things. When do we start pushing ourselves after any surgery?? I'm not saying running a marathon. Surgeon said 2 weeks after last surgery Is ok to work again. I think I've been safe about working again after all 3 surgeries.

My mom,wife,visiting nurse,most of female customers all told me to be careful. I have been careful but at same time I need to work. I would Quess most of u have disability insurance. That must be nice. I don't have it. It cost around $20,000 to run my buisness per year. I'm not going to push myself to the point of collapsing I take it nice and easy but I have to keep buisness moving.

Wow, Champ, you are doing well! It is so hard not to jump back into life full force, isn't it? I wrestle with that each day. And when I "overdo" I have more gas pain/cramp pains. Ugh!

I don't have disability insurance; I am the major earning in the house right now (and I work only 3/4 time!) So I, too, feel the urgency to be a the workplace. Luckily, there are parts of the job I can do from home or from a desk.

I'll be 6 weeks tomorrow. I should start my own thread rather than highjack yours...

3timechamp and song you both sound well. Glad your able to put in a full 8 hours , I too watch out for the lifting part. Like you champ I work for myself and have no disability insurance. Being Canadian I do I have the peace of mind all my doctor and hospital visits are paid for but that it . So if I don’t work I don’t get paid .

Today was the first day I felt 95% better . I didn’t push myself too much but I am able to do everything I was before the surgery minus lifting and long walks . Both of those I
am still taking a bit easy . Like you champ I worry about a hernia . My bathroom trips are still about 15 a day I am assuming it will lighten up . Tried the Imodium and if anything that did firm up my stool but it was a B.... to pass. I will stay with my 15 trips a day that are liquid. Drinking enough so i will not get dehydrated.

If everyday could be like today I would be thrilled . Going to wean myself off the percocets still taking it twice a day . Just worried because it’s also the only thing that helps with my arthritis pain . Wish me luck I am fully aware of the withdrawal symptoms will go easy.

Champ....i get the surgery aspect. Major lung surgery at a strong and fit 21 (open chest, excrutiating recovery, demerol was my best friend). I went too far 5 months later and paid for it .

Push is the word i was meaning...the concept connected to past experience and how I assume you seem to be.....somewhat impatient and an all or nothing thinking. Just concern as everyone is, nothing more.

Take good care....it's a process that the body rules, not the criteria of what you think it should be.

I'm happy to hear you feel so good at this point.

q

Champ the opioids have never affected my BM since the beginning of my three surgeries been on and off since December. Guess my body is used to them. I started to slow down a bit yesterday and today around 10 bathroom trips so far a day.

notsosicklygirl said...

Actually Keith mentioned doing aflac, which is really smart, and I wish I had known about it before my procedures. Unfortunately, everything came to a head for me in the middle of the year, and moving quickly was imperative, so I wasn't able to hold off and get an aflac plan. I wish I had been.

I received $300 a day for every day that I was in the hospital. It was all tax free on top of that since it was an insurance claim. I spent about 50 days in the hospital between my 3 surgeries and one blockage admittance. I walked about away with over 15K from the surgery to help with my bills.

The insurance costs less than $2 a day.

RE disability insurance: Champ, just FYI, am now retired but while I was working FT I had to go on disability at 2 different times with the same employer, who required it after 6 consecutive days on sick leave. While on disability I never got more than 2/3 of regular pay. (Better than nothing, but certainly NOT AN INCENTIVE to stay off work long-term!!!!!) / Old Hat (38 yrs with left-sided UC; presently in remission taking brandname Colazal)