5 Days Post Procedure

The pain has its ups and downs. There are certainly times when I'm in a significant amount of pain and other times when I forget I had the procedure all together. I decided to take the pain meds regularly as a preventative so as to not allow my body to hurt so bad that when I do take the pain meds, I felt little to no relief.

I did notice that the pain was the worst when I had spent any amount of time sitting. I had to run a few errands on Saturday and I definitely paid for it Saturday night. I wore jeans and even though they were loose to a certain degree, they still cut into my mid-section something fierce. When I got home and took a shower, I noticed that same bulge in my mid-section where it seems like the jeans push up any excess and just leave it there. This scared me because I noticed it happening last time too and I question if it was the cause of my problems. In my infinite wisdom, I decided to buy a pair of maternity jeans to wear to work. This way I won't have that stiffness of the jean material cutting into my mid-section. I bought the following pair at Target this afternoon for $32.99.

Moving onto the healing progress. I think that I've come a long way in the past five days .. even just in the last two .. you can judge for yourself ..

I have a follow up appointment with the doctor on Tuesday. I'm looking forward to it. I think she is going to be very pleased with her work! I know that I am :] I joked with my boyfriend today that I think I will get the results this time that I was hoping for last time and how nice it would be for him to have a girlfriend who isn't so insecure anymore!

More to come ...

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