Recovery week 3
Tomorrow begins week 4 post surgery and I gotta say, I'm doing pretty well! I got the ok to start standing up a little straighter, which I am so glad about. My lower back is still hurting, but it doesn't hurt NEARLY as bad as it used to and I'm able to stand up for just a little bit longer now. I feel like I'm getting stronger every day. Thank you, Lord! I had my follow up with the plastic surgeon last week and it went really well for the more part! Everything is healing well and they even removed the two drains up at my chest. I still have the ones on my hips, but one will be removed probably this week. The other is not even close to being ready, unfortunately. The drains don't hurt or anything being in and up until a couple of days ago, were not really even a big deal to take care of. A couple of days ago though, one started leaking and I started to panic. I talked to the nurse and it turns out it was just clogged and I had to strip the tubing until...