Just a quick update.

I'm healing, quickly even! It's much more refreshing to feel like I'm "bouncing back" quick! I usually have in the past (aside from September's 2 surgeries!) I can now say it was a nice little stay in the hospital - especially since I didn't have to have anyone elses blood! (I was a little paranoid!)

But things are going well. Stann's definitely earning sainthood status - pulling his weight at work, home, my weight at home with the boys, and filling in for everything in between! He's even been pretty patient with my newfound shortcomings - the hot flashes, mood swings, crying jags, everything. He's the best!

Physically, everything's healing well....I've cheated a couple times and lifted Joshua twice. (BIG NO-NO!) My staples were removed on Tuesday (27th of May) - all 22. Stann stayed by my side and was a little disappointed Dr. Nak didn't ask him to remove some of them. :( (Next time Stann...wait....I don't want there to BE a next time!!!) My incision now has steri-strips on them...and it itches like crazy! Good sign, I know, but it drives me crazy in the mean time! I get to switch my hormone patch tomorrow...I LIKE that....I hate all the sticky fuzzies I get from the adhesive rubbing up against my garments! YUCK!

Psychologically, I'm getting there. It's a big adjustment to life as I knew it at 32. You just DON'T realize (or at least I didn't) that there are soooo many things you have to now consider, change even down to sleeping habits, eating habits and so forth. It's a challenge, one I'm not sure I was quite ready to take on! I'm trying to acknowledge my issues of anger, fear, frustration, towards myself, God, the irony of genetics, etc., and somedays I feel like I slip. I try very hard to see the humor in things....like the fact that I now own real estate in my freezer, I have a favorite niche, to combat the hot flashes....when I'd always be sooo cold before! AND....its become an effective weight loss tool. I'm hardly hungry anymore. I also hardly ever drink caffeine - something I'd tried to quit for awhile! And you can now find me dosing and measuring vitamins like its goin' outta style! Everything from additional folic acid, multi-vitamins, fish oil, flaxseed, calcium, etc., making sure I at least get SOME of the nutrients that my body will now need even more of! I've become a health-nut! And I swore THAT'D never happen!

I got the pics from Dr. Nak of my organs (after surgery) and they're GROSS. So gross, that I don't want to offend anyone by posting them on my blog....but, should you feel the need or have the curiousity, I do have them at my house. My right ovary was easily the same size as my uterus. My cervix looked beat all to heck. It's fascinatingly gross. Pathology still hasn't come back on my organs, but I go in for my 2 week post-op check up on June 6th. (Sarah's B-day...Happy B-Day Sarah!) I should know more by then.

In the mean time, thanks for the prayers, text, calls, everything. It really, really helps, more than you know. It helps pull me thru the crying jags and those nasty ol' pity parties that I give in to every once and awhile. :)

(Will post pics of surgery ONLY IF the general consensus is they're not too gross....)