I went for another nurse visit today. I knew the purpose of the visit was to remove one or both remaining drains, but I promised myself that I wouldn't get my hopes up. I didn't want to repeat my drain meltdown from Monday. Lucky me, she did remove one of them, but Dr. S wants to wait until next Monday to remove the last one just to be on the safe side. I can handle that. When I'm down to one drain, I just stuff it into my pants pocket instead of pinning it to my clothes. For some reason, that gives me just enough of a mental boost to tolerate a few more days with that last wretched drain.
Still not sleeping that well because it's hard to get comfortable. I've learned to get up and do something until I get sleepy enough to go back to bed. I'm careful not to nap in the day so at least I have a shot at sleeping through the night. I'm not worried, though. Solid sleep will come in due time.
Still not allowed to drive or stand up fully straight because I don't want to stretch my abdominal incision. I must say, I'm so pleased at how well my abdominal scar is healing. The parts of the incision where the scabs are gone are just thin pink lines. I guess that's due to the dermabond he used. It's only at the ends of the incision that there's evidence of suturing below the skin. Dang, he's good!
More on Monday.
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