Had less pain over the last few days and also reassurance from Clare the Macmillan nurse that what I do have is normal 5 weeks after major surgery. Did a bit of desk tidying yesterday, some laundry, some photo printing for a Discovery Centre enquiry and a brisker than usual walk to the paper shop and back today, and felt fine. By 6pm the pain is back and reluctantly have taken a co-codamol. The first for about a week. I hate taking them as they make me feel queasy and woozy. So its comfort food for tea (fish fingers!) and watching Wallander on BBC4 later from under a blanket on the sofa.
And progressing a little. 8st 12lb - yay. A co-poster on Macmillan’s forum had a liver resection in October 2008. She had a 22cm tumour removed. (Yes 22cm; that's over 8 1/2" to us pre-metric oldies. Mine was 1.6cm!). She lost the whole left side of her liver and a small portion of the right. Her liver has fully regrown. She lost a lot of weight after the op. At 5ft 5” went down to just under 7 stone but now weighs about 9 ½. I’ll get there in the end, hopefully quicker than 2 years!
ONWARDS AND UPWARDS - a diagnosis and treatment of Hepatocellular carcinoma (primary liver cancer) diagnosed August 2010, presumed caused by 30+ years of chronic hepatitis B. And a search for how to be healthy living with cirrhosis presumed caused by Autoimmune hepatitis (diagnosed April 2011)
Take it easy Fiona,
ReplyDeleteRest, enjoy the fish fingers and BBC4 and maybe just slow down a bit....
You had major surgery a few weeks ago and desk tidying; laundry can wait until you're much better.
There are people there that can put laundry in for you? The desk can/could wait - you need to put YOU first...
Go easier on yourself and yes, you'll get there. One step at a time eh :-)
I hate co-codamol - they give me the weirdest nightmares imaginable :-(