Day Four

Friday

I got to eat food today. The last thing I ate was a egg salad sandwich on Tuesday for Lunch. My body didn't get anything from it since I had to do the pre-surgical purge that night. Before that I fasted in case I had to do tests. Monday night was the last real meal I had.

So I ordered eggs, toast, bacon and raisin bran for breakfast. It was oh so good.

The Surgeon came in today at 9:00 and checked me over. She said that all was good and I could leave today if I felt up to it. She also told me that I would be coming to see them at the Mayo every 6 months for 3 years. No skipping yearly exams for me!

They took out my drainage tubes today. Holy Shit. Not a very fun event to mark in my emotional journal of experiences. Patricia asked me if I wanted the easy one or the hard one done first. I told her to just pick one.
I laid down, she clipped the stitches, advised me to lay back and take a deep breath. Zippyblipblub she took out the one that ran subcutaneously up my abdomen. Blech. Then she said "okay this one is going to hurt more" she clipped the stitches on my deep side tube. This one goes down into where the ovary was removed. This one came out quicker (shorter depth) but I could feel it pulling back through my intestines and them making way and then settling. Didn't hurt as much as the first, but was more unsettling. She cleaned up her gear and left. I just laid there in the semi-dark room trying to center myself. Tom left shortly thereafter to go pick up our stuff at cousin Jacquelyn's and to leave me to take a nap. I was restless, but finally got in a 30 minute nap.

Time to think about packing up to go. Wasn't sure I wanted to at that point, tube removal and all. We got all of our gear together, said our goodbye's and I got my first wheel chair ride down to the entrance with a short stop off at the pharmacy.
Tom stopped off at Jimmy John's to get me Vegetarian sandwich no greens for the drive home.

Mom and Isaac were hanging out at our house when we got home. Jen had been there earlier and completely cleaned our house for us. THANK YOU JEN!

It is nice to be home.