Re: Having a hard time today (to Greta)

[Guest guest]

Hi Greta,

Thanks so much for your kind words! I've been keeping it together

pretty well during this process but every once in awhile it just gets

to be a bit much, and it's good to know it's normal to feel this way.

The verdict is still out on whether I'll be glad I went through the

surgery, but I'm optimistic. At least I've been able to start

sleeping on my side again some... ahhhhh, blissful side sleeping!

Beth

>

> > It's been two weeks exactly since my surgery. Overall I'm doing well,

> > but things just started getting to me today. I stopped taking

> > ibuprofen last night so I have a heck of a headache today, my lips

> > still aren't closing easily (which was among the reasons I had the

> > surgery), my stitches feel tight and it's still not comfortable

trying

> > to smile at all... and an email about an ongoing situation in

another

> > area of my life that seems like it will never be resolved just set me

> > off and the waterworks started a little while ago. My poor

husband is

> > trying so hard to be supportive and to remind me that I'm still

> > healing, etc., but it just got to me today.

> >

> > My stitches are supposed to dissolve soon (they said about 10

days and

> > it's beyond that), but they said I could come in and have them

clipped

> > if I'm unfomfortable. The problem is that I don't know what should

> > feel normal! Considering that I can barely stand to be touched

around

> > my mouth, I'm scared of having anything else done in there. I'm

going

> > to see how I feel after the weekend.

> >

> > OK, just had to vent a little to a group who might understand!

> >

> > Beth

> >

> >

[Guest guest]

Beth, honey... And Greta... Your bodies have been packed with

steroids. Now they're withdrawing, and trying to heal at the same

time. Blues, funks just are part of the process. The anesthetics do

that, too. It's nasty that anybody has to deal with anything else in

the middle of the raging hormones and healing. And a screwed up diet,

to boot.

My doc, just before I left the hospital, stopped and said, " And oh,

Cammie. There's one more thing. About the steroids... " And I stopped

him and said, " Do you mean the zits or the depression? " " The

depression, " he answered.

I said " I'm prepared. "

I wasn't, exactly.

But when it hit, I was glad and relieved to remember that it's

majorly biochemical. You're body is getting itself clean of all that

gunk you needed. It will look brighter, I promise.

Hope that makes you feel better, too.

Cammie