One Week Post Op

***WARNING***
There will be a real life picture of my uterus in this post.  If you do not like seeing such things, please come back tomorrow


It has been one week since my surgery and I am doing better then I thought I would be doing but not as good as I want to be doing.

As far as pain goes, it has been very minimal.  Today for the first day, I can almost say that I don't feel anything.  I have only been taking Advil since I got home and I have not even been doing that for the past few days now.  I think it is pretty amazing considering a week ago, I had an organ removed from my body.  Yesterday my incisions started to itch, which is driving me crazy and making it uncomfortable to wear any pants (but don't worry, I am).

I want to be doing more.  It is really hard just laying on the couch, when there is stuff to be done around the house.  I just keep telling my self that I am healing on the inside and my body needs me to do my part, which is rest.

Before my surgery I asked my Doctor if I would be able to see my uterus and he said that he could take a picture of it.  And true to his word, he did.  Yesterday, Karen, a friend from church who is also a nurse brought us dinner.  She explained the picture to me a bit which helped. 

So without further ado...........here is my uterus!  Ta-Da!

Cute, huh?  I have no idea what the piece is off to the left but I will ask my Doctor when I go for my post op appointment.  See how nice and pink it is?  At the bottom of the picture is my cervix and that big fleshy looking bump on the right side of it, is the fibroid that was causing me so much trouble (severe bleeding and extreme anemia).

So there you have it folks-my uterus. Or as my brother Jeff has so affectionately renamed it: ute.  (Pronounced U-TE) He even made up a song about ute and played it for me on his guitar the last time we skyped.  I laughed so hard I cried.