My body had a hard time shaking off the drugs that they used this time to knock me out. I had constant shivers and nausea that came in waves. I tried to flush it all out of my system by hydrating with water and tea.
I will contact the hospital next week and ask them to provide me with the drugs and dosages used in each of my operations, I am almost sure that something different had been used the last time or the dosage was a lot higher. The other option would be that since I had finished chemo recently my body had a lot harder time to flush it out.
Zeren came early in the morning to keep me company and brought an awesome homemade lentil soup, we brewed tea the old fashioned way with a double boiler and chatted along, towards noon I started feeling ill again and took my comfort corner on the loveseat covered by my quilt that my mom made from my race tshirts. Watched the Movie 'Sun Also Rises' on tv and dozed for a while. I ran a slight fever which worried me because I am not quite sure of how my white blood cell counts are after the chemo, I definitely did not want to risk getting an infection that would delay radiation.
Around 3 o'clock N brought all the ingredients to make her infamous scones along with a wonderful bouquet of yellow roses; hearing this of course, P and S also stopped by. I was still on the couch not feeling that well and was watching the parody in the kitchen during the scone assemblies which was a combination of food network,golden girls, sex and the city and desperate housewives (no offense ok !! ) I felt cocooned by the tlc that these gals were showing me, and the enormous sense of gratitude for having them in my life swept over me like it did so many times this past 6 months.
They stayed until the evening, we took advantage of the beautiful weather and sat on the porch enjoying the olive, cheese and apple scones along with freshly brewed tea. Although probably having friends over did tire me it also gave me an immense amount of recharge that overcompensated and made me feel really good. I felt myself slowly bouncing back.
That evening I still was not sure that going to Jacksonville the next day would be a start move. As far as I knew all my symptoms seemed to be stemming from the anastesia drugs used, so decided to tell Ferit that we were still going. I did not have any pain related to the surgery, just felt tight across my chest.
I know that several people thought that me going to Jacksonville to spectator a half marathon 2 days after surgery was not a wise move. I would have thought the same way if I were them. But this race meant a lot to me was counting on my body not to betray me and bounce back Saturday. And I was positive that I would be really frustrated if I did not go and stayed cooped up at home.
Took a Tylenol PM and was able to sleep for about 4-5 hours that night until 4 am.
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