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QueenB · 11-11-2005, 05:06 AM

You know I was definitley one of those who thought.....that's not going to happen to me. Well guess what? It's happening, all of it. My major issue right now is adversions to smells, one of those smells being my breath! It's pretty bad, my husband pointed it out to me too.....as if I didn't know. It's right there infront of me all day long. Then there are other peoples smells. Kris ate chinese food for lunch and he smells soo nasty. I begged him to have a shower before bed but he just blew me off. I managed to fall asleep but woke up feeling not so good shortly after and ended up sleeping on the floor in the living room for a couple of hours. I just had major abdominal surgery litlte more than 72 hours ago and I am sleeping on a cement slab floor? Something is NOT right. Then my poor son, Kaden-who is 10, finally got the flu bug that has made it to every child innmy house and my husband, last night. I can't help because I have a really bad issue with smells now and even before the surgery I had a hard time with gagging cleaning up stuff like that, I feel like I have abandonded Kaden, yelling from the hallway that I'll get his Dad to help him. Now also wouldn't be a good time for me to start heaving. At my pre-op I heard a story from my Dr of a woman who wreched her staple line open and nothing good came of it. I don't want that.

So here I sit at 4:45 in the morning on Friday wondering what tomorrow (or later today

) holds. I can't bear taking anymore childrens tylenol because of the taste. I don't need anything stronger but it would be nice not to be sore. I am not really in any kind of pain, per se, but I am a little tender in certian possitions so the tylenol would help. I am doing decent with my water, I think. I have been getting in my vitamins and Pepcid but even the thought of Tums makes my pouch turn......I think it has to do with the chalky consistency. And so the issues of GBS creep up on me but I have my eye on the goal......okay perhaps I am not that optomistic........I have my eye about 6 months out when I can get some sort of carb in a cure this breath mostly

So far I am not looking back but I can't say that as my life resumes with less and less help form my parents that I won't be thinking "what have I gotten myself in to" but i'd have to say I think I asked myself that about a month after each of my children were born. I don't think I am convinced there is anyhting in life worth sacrificing for that doesn't, at some point, lend itself to that question.

On a possitive note....my face actually looks like my avatar now and the upper part of my stomach is much less full looking.......now to get rid of the bloat