Oh boy, I haven’t been the best blogger lately, eh? Well, I have an excellent excuse: I had a 6 hour surgery 3 weeks ago. Stage 4 endometriosis excision surgery. They removed 2 tumors from my colon, and endo implants from my bilateral pelvic brims, bilateral pelvic and abdominal walls, bladder, ureters, liver and diaphragm…along with removing my Fallopian tubes. Yeah, it’s been quite the 3 weeks around here. I feel like shit, but less shitty than when I first got home. Your diaphragm is a muscle, so breathing was pretty painful the first 2 weeks. I imagine this might be what it feels like to be run over by a van. Just guessing.
I’m also taking 9 credits online at UMASS Boston. I know. I’m crazy. I’m way behind, but they are working with me, thank God. Today, I came down with a sore throat, headache and chills. Yay.
Tired of hearing me moan and groan? I am.
A great thing that happened this month, and also a funny thing, is that I got published again. What’s funny about it is that I have been so damn sick, I forgot all about it! I remembered TWO weeks after it came out! Ha! It’s in the American Journal of Nursing. If you’re interested, click here.
I’m hoping to feel better enough tomorrow to start catching up on my homework, but I have a feeling I’ll be plopped on the couch. Sometimes, you just gotta roll with the punches and let go of what you can’t control…something I’m working on in many areas of my life.
This post was written in response to Linda G Hill’s Stream of Social Consciousness Saturday
