I've been discharged!

I am resting comfortably in a hotel room right now! Dr. B discharged me from the hospital around 4 p.m. today. We're not home yet because my parents already had their hotel room tonight near the hospital so we decided to stay here for another night.

I can't believe I'm already out! Originally we were told 2-3 days, and it ended up being only one.

I'm doing really well. I feel great and my pain is under control (taking vicoden and advil). They moved me to solid food around eleven this morning and I've been eating ever since. I was totally looking forward to that! I didn't expect to have solid food today, I was just hoping for full liquids. Boy, I savored that food. And I vowed to never again take a meal for granted after having to starve for two days!

I am up and around and while my abdomen is kind of sore, I can move much more freely than I expected to be able to. Actually, in the middle of Dr. B talking to me, I reached down to pull up my sock and he stopped and pointed out that if I can do things like that, then I'm in really good shape!

My scar looks great. It's thin and narrow and I intend to keep it that way.

He also said that I really only have to be out of commission for like a week. I didn't expect to hear that! Well, I'm really not supposed to drive until I go to a follow-up appointment in two weeks, so I won't be entirely back to normal. But PPVI says you need six weeks to recover from a laparotomy, so this is definitely at a quicker pace. It's not like I'm going to push it though. It's not like I have a job and I don't need to do too much too quickly.

My surgery this time was also much less intensive than my last one. Last time it took around 3 1/2 hours and they removed my appendix, endometriomas from both ovaries, and lots of endo from around my abdomen. This time it was just one ovary and it only took like an hour and a half.

I'll update more later. Now it's time to eat some yummy non-diet food! One of the perks of recovery!