A Week To Recuperate

Last Monday, February 18, I went down to Methodist Medical Center to the Radiology Department.  I was having a procedure done like I had in September 2011.  My recollections of that procedure was it was a piece of cake.  I don't remember it taking me but a couple days to rebound.

Felt pretty good after the procedure.  They got me home and I went to bed.  Didn't fill the prescription for pain pills.  The next morning before work, Jeff got me the prescription.  I was very achy so I took one and proceeded to crash.  Before I knew it a couple days had gone by and I had been sleeping most of the time.  The pain in my side felt like I had been knifed in the liver.  The fact was, I HAD been knifed in the liver.  It still hurts to take a deep breath.

I now know that your liver is right below your breast on the right side of your body.  They went in through my ribcage and did a CT scan guided ablation.  I think they nuked it with microwave technology.  Whatever it was, it worked but left me hurt.  I called the nurse and told her the pain wasn't being helped by the pills.  They prescribed me more.

Now it is Saturday.  I'm off the pills.  I have a lot more left.  I guess that's good.  I have no energy so missed the retreat they were having at Alpha - a course my daughter Chelsea, and Jeff and I have been going to.  She made it.  (And also made Praise Team!!  So proud of her!)

So right now my body looks stable.  Still a couple spots on my liver and one in my psoas muscle on my right side.  Every time I feel pain I get nervous.  I live with a constant worry that something will happen.

I thank everyone for their prayers.  I'm sorry to my family that my get up and go kinda got up and went.  It's like the week is gone.  The week that never was.  That's how I felt when I had major surgery in 2011.  I often say 2011, for me was a year with 10 months.  I literally lost 2 full months.  I remember when Courtney came to see me at my moms house, and I said SUSHI!  I'll buy if you go get it.  That's when I knew I was better.  From not being able to eat a thing to moaning and groaning over really good sushi!!  I'm hoping Monday roles around and ta-da I'll be back to my old self!