no longer MIA

here I am, sitting on my couch recooperating from my hysterectomy that was performed a week ago tomorrow. i am wondering when i will begin to feel 'normal' again. i am wondering when my house will be 'in order' again. i am wondering when i will be able to lift more than 8 lbs again. :) the bottom line is that i am alive and almost well again. that's what's important, right?

the technologies of the medical world still puzzles me. i can't get over seeing those huge lights in the surgery room, and feeling the warmth of the heated sheets wrapping my arms as i lay on the operating table breathing in whatever air was blowing through the pastic tube and face mask sitting over my nose and mouth. within a matter of minutes (or so it seemed), i awoke in the recovery room. i wasn't feeling any pain, i couldn't open my eyes for too long, but i could hear all that was going on around me. it was truly weird. but all in all, things went very well. i was in and out in the average time of two hours. and i was discharged from the hospital in just over 30 hours. i spent the first couple of days doped up on percoset 24/7 and either in bed or on the couch. but as i move on with the week, i begin to feel better and better each day. my full hysterectomy has been a success, and although the road to recovery has only begun, i can feel a deep sense of relief that the beginning of my new, pain-free, life has begun.

now...i have to get to work on my weight loss program!