Day 4 - Recovery

Yesterday, Lisa finally had a BM and something very strange started happening. She seemed to get her period! How is that possible? So, she called the emergency number and they said, yes, she could be getting her period. I was extremely tired and ate some prunes and had myrolax so I could poop and still nothing but bloating.

Tom & Tina stopped by with an edible arrangement and they handed it to me. Heavy!! I was falling asleep as they were visiting. I was feeling so tired. Then, I was noticing burning as I was peeing and it was getting harder to pee. UTI? Great! So, I waited a few hours

and at 11:30 pm, called the emergency number to try to get antibiotics. No luck. I had to go in at 9am this morning to pee in a cup at Roswell. So, in the middle of the night, I woke up with a splitting headache and chills. I took an oxy and woke up at 7am sweating. When I got up to get ready for the hospital, I was nautious and still had a headache. I forced in some coffee and cereal hoping that would help. I got to Roswell and they wanted to “Streamline me” to save me the cost of a visit. So, they took urine at pathology and Craig was upset because I didn’t push for results that day. It’s going to take till Monday (today is Thursday, and New Years Eve). So, I’ve got to wait a long time for the results. When I got home, my mom went to Walgreen to get a dipstick test so we could nip it in the bud. It came back negative. So, maybe I’m just having trouble and that’s normal.

Then, Lisa decided to go home. This made me very emotional. I started crying. She was my partner and was abandoning me! I realized that I was being selfish. So, she said I could come over tomorrow and spend the day with her. I drove with mom to bring her home and then mom and I stopped at Tim Horton’s for coffee, the dollar tree for a screwdriver set to fix my watch and then Tops for some NYE food. That was a little more than I could handle. I went to the bathroom at Tops and I was spotting and cramping. I felt like a monster. No shower, no makeup, no hairdo, gross. So, I got home and ate tripe with mom and took a nap.

After my nap, I put on some makeup for the first time since surgery and fixed my hair. This seemed to help my spirits a lot. Craig got back from fixing the tires and mom made steak, potatoes and peas. We all ate and then had sticky buns. We watched sopranos and toasted with some amaretto at midnight. I was spotting more now. Chinks of brown, red and black.