Week 4

I've made it 4 weeks post op from my LPAO! Thursday will be exactly one month from when I went under the knife. I've stepped down from taking Norco 10s and am now taking Norco 5s. Unfortunately I'm having to take them almost every 4 hours and I'm starting to have some sleepless nights without my giant pain pills. I also started having nausea over the weekend. On Sunday I ate a fried egg sandwich at 9am and then didn't have anything else to eat until 7pm that night because I was so nauseous. That is way different from how I had been. I had a healthy appetite before then. Last night I tried to take 2 tylenol PM in place of my Norco to see if I could sleep better and it didn't make a difference. I still laid in bed for 2 hours before I fell asleep and was wide awake at 6am. So this morning I called the doctor's office to request something to control the nausea. Hopefully that will help me some. I have a headache right now from not eating right and the tylenol PM hangover I always get.

I have made some progress in movement. I am sleeping on my good side a lot more often. Also, this morning I was able to roll onto my stomach and sleep for about an hour, but I had to put a small pillow under my bad hip to support it. I've been out and about more hanging out with friends. I still can only sit on a hard chair for about 2 hours before I have to move. Sometimes this is frustrating for my husband because he wants to stay somewhere longer, but I'm ready to go. I hope to drive a little bit in the next week. We have another wedding coming up on Friday and I will probably not use my wheel chair at this one. But I will probably use my wheelchair Saturday when we go to little Nashville because it is hard to park close to where you are going.

Scar Picture at 4 weeks (you can see where they scoped too)