After the surgery I feel like the hostile alien mother/command ship has been destroyed and any runaways I will flush out on my own, since now I am aware of the possibility of their presence. My guards (headed by Locke from 'Lost') will shoot them down as soon as they are spotted.
Here is a picture of Me and my Irondawg Candy surrounded by well wishes - great energy from family and friends.
It is the 4th day after my surgery and I am off the pain meds, thought I would do a self-systems check and see what the current state is without any interference from the addictive stuff. I also wanted to be aware of all the signals my body was giving before seeing both surgeons tomorrow. I only will be taking 2 tylenol PM's at night to help me with the sleep.
From a scale of 1 - 10
1 - really bad
10 - Stellar
Overall physical feeling : Sluggish but peaceful like one feels after the flu/high fever. I would say 6/10
Fatigue level : See above, energy levels are kind of low. 6/10
Pain when not moving : None
Pain when moving left arm : Substantially better than yesterday but still painful. ( pain level 5/10)
Biggest problem : Sharp pain in lower end of sternum when doing deep abdominal breathing especially after lying down and when raising the left arm.
Sporadic light headaches ( could be due to dehydration and less than optimal ! nutrition)
Tightness on left side has been gone after doing deep breathing exercises couple of times a day.
Breathing : I think I am still not breathing 100% so am working with the contraption -Incentive Spirometer- that they gave me from the hospital.
I am scared to cough or sneeze although nothing hurt when I did so.
My chest area is totally numb to the armpits.. very weird feeling that one gets after icing an area and touching it. I was told by my breast friend Melody( who is about 6 months ahead of me ) that the feeling will come back slowly.
I kind of freaked out yesterday when I could not move my left arm ( my left armpit hurt) so did a test to see whether there was a damage to the muscle or nerve.
Test: If I tried to raise my arm above heart level while standing the armpit hurt like hell.
But when I bent to a 90 degree angle from my waist and brought my left arm to the same angle to my torso,... no pain.
Conclusion: if the left arm goes above heart level I think there is more swelling on that side towards the armpit thats whats hurting and there is no damage to the muscle. range of motion.
Yey !!!!
So I am mastering doing a pony tail while bending from my waist ;o) Got2 be creative right ?
Action plan: baby that arm ( actually both of them ) give them time to flush out and regenerate. work on draining/detoxing the surgery area using visualization and self affirmation statements.
Start the exercises given by the surgeon for post-surgery once I get the go ahead tomorrow
Nutrition:
Although I have not hit the tempting 'binge wagon' full force I have allowed myself 3-4 servings of desserts on a daily basis which has contributed to a 'tire around the waist' that my younger daughter tactfully blurted out yesterday. 'mom you look fat !' Fred was trying to stop her but did not succeed. Wake up call.
From now on minimal 'empty' calories if I consume it, it must do my body good. Focus on detox foods and good protein. Fresh vegetables.
(Famous last words before I probably will hit the incredibly delicious banana cream pie in the fridge)
Forced myself to take 2 30 minute naps it is hard to sleep when one does not feel tired.
Tomorrow is an important day I have the post-op appointments with the Breast and Plastic Surgeons. I hope my pathology report is ready for the Sentinel Node Biopsy and the results are GOOD !
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