Things To Do When You're Recovering From Surgery

finally reached the part of the healing process where i start screaming angrily "BE NICE TO ME" at my partner
we're both exhausted and i'm not handling super well

what a fuckin' month!

Sorry to hear! I remember those when I was recovering from surgery. Lots of tears, I also nearly broke my phone a number of times from throwing it across the room in frustration

it is not fun! i am much diminished and frustrated by the presumptions of all nearby that since i'm awake and answering emails i am probably fine. definitely not fine, but daddy's gotta pay the rent.

I went back to work teaching undergrads only ten days after I had major surgery. My mom had to drive me to work for the first three weeks of the semester because my partner was working at the same time, and I literally couldn't sit up properly to drive without being in massive amounts of pain. It was a truly weird beginning to the 2019-2020 school year, which just got weirder as time went on lol.

So far: watch lots of prev unwatched shit from the 2010s, play with cats, wash catheter bags. This one is painful enough that just staying lying down is pretty nice.

in ongoing body horror updates, a weird nubbin of stitch located in my underarm that had been jabbing me in the side and occasionally even waking me up, just popped out of the scar like it had somewhere to be. I still can't raise my arm beyond 70 degrees or so but this represents a big leap forward in my well being.

it's the little things that count!

Nubbin repairs 4 U

imagine having a big splinter in your underarm that jabs you in your side all day every day for a month. that nubbin was a real thorn.