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Home - in stitches! (Slightly OT)

I got home on Christmas Eve, and my sister delivered the lad home shortly after. HE, naturally, had had a lovely time. Mine was less fun...

It was touch and go for a moment or three on the keyhole, as the stone was almost too big to allow it! As a result, I have 'Church Door' keyhole! The hole the stone came out through is over an inch long. 'Expect everything to take a little longer to settle', they warned.

Everything is settling down ok, though I'm still on fairly big doses of pain killers, and I have to take it easy for a few days more... GA's always take an age to wear off me - I wasn't really awake until midnight

- 13 hours after going down for the op! Yesterday morning was painful, but be last night things were better. The only trouble is that the GA has left me with a throat that is liable to produce dry patches and coughing fits at no notice, and coughing is the very LAAAAAST thing I want to do! OUCH doesn't begin to cover it! Still, all things considered, the copious gas eruptions included, it's not as bad as June! A lot less painful than having my wisdom teeth out, for sure!

The stitches are very neat and of the dissolvable variety, so will leave little scarring. Not that I care: wot are 4 small scars compared to the pain of gallstones? NOWT! I go back in 3 months for a check up.

I got most of the things I was supposed to do before Christmas done, as did DH. He also did a great job with the Christmas dinner. Venison and vegetables cooked to perfection! Yummy! We still have a few things to get ready for Yorkshire and the New Year, but most things are done.

I have the most elegant and sexy (NOT!!) surgical stockings to wear for the next 6 weeks as part of the NHS's drive to reduce post operative DVT... The leg bit fits OK, but how they expect me to walk about with

6" of fabric flappin' round me toes, I reeely cannot say! Shoes? NOT wiv these fings! And I'm supposed to wear them for all but an hour a day... Good stuff! They only gave me one pair! I shall have to see about getting a second pair, and a couple of pairs of Flight Sox fer evenings out! Otherwise washing them could be amusing... They might get a bit grey and wiffy!

Here's wishing you well for the season: if you don't see me as much as usual, it's probably because I'm still asleep! I also have a couple of new cookbooks to work through, a new kitchen gadget to play with (a Bamix wand mixer), and plenty of new sewing stuff, including some Fiskar's Dressmakers Sheers!

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Kate Dicey
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A speedy recovery for you! Don't forget the pillow trick for those coughs. It should work. Just hug it tight to keep everything in place. The buttonhole incisions really do heal nicely - I can't hardly find mine from when they stole my cute appendix 3 years ago. The sock thing really is funny - and seems sort of stupid - they dry slowly because of the thickness and all that elastic. But they do get a bit gamey if not washed.

Glad Santa was kind to you. New toys are so much fun!

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Pogonip

Now, there's an interesting slip - buttonhole surgery? That'll catch on!

;) Trish

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Trishty

Hand stitched too! Tres posh!

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Kate Dicey

It's no wonder so many surgeons are women. ;-)

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Pogonip

almost too big to allow it! As a result, I have 'Church Door' keyhole! (snip)

next 6 weeks as part of the NHS's drive to reduce post operative DVT... The leg bit fits OK, but how they expect me to walk about with

6" of fabric flappin' round me toes, I reeely cannot say! Shoes? NOT wiv these fings! And I'm supposed to wear them for all but an hour a day... Good stuff! They only gave me one pair! (snip)

play with (a Bamix wand mixer), and plenty of new sewing stuff, including some Fiskar's Dressmakers Sheers!

Hi Kate. RELAX! and BEHAVE YOURSELF! Mah sugah daddy (dh) had his gallbladder removed back in March, with very similar surgery, and he is close to two decades older than you!! He came out well, but was highly disconcerted to find out just how little energy he had. I pointed out that, regardless of the fact that it wasn't dong him any good, he had still had an organ removed, and it was going to take time for his body to heal and adjust. Of course, being a man, he was convinced the office couldn't get along without him, and went back to work too soon, resulting in another bout of illness seven weeks after he went back.

About those stockings. They don't use them over here except for things like heart problems, but they DO emphasize that you should sit with your feet up - preferably higher than your heart. So, take over the most comfortable chair in the house, put your feet up and just read the cookbooks, don't try them out yet. Leave all the other toys alone except for very short periods, and get out a bunch of library books to keep you going. The more you rest during the next three or four weeks, the faster you will get back to your old self. Sit back and let dh and ds look after you.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

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Olwynmary

I'm doing just that! Even here at the ole 'puter, I have me feets up on another stool! And because of the pain meds, I'm being careful of the wine intake...

I have 2 or 3 stockings to make - if I feel like it! And I want to play with the mixer and do for myself the trick of whipping SKIMMED milk up like double cream! I've seen it done, but not yet tried it myself...

so far my biggest problem has been coughing (dry throat from the anasthetic), and getting Cornflake to lie STILL on my lap! This evening's typo's are HIS! He's trying to sit on my lap here at the 'puter, and there isn't quite room, so he keeps stomping about! Kate XXXXXX Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons

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Kate Dicey

and getting Cornflake to lie STILL on my lap!

Glass of water next to your chair, frequent cuppas, constant supply of hard candy (sorry, boiled sweets!). Don't have any good ideas about cornflake.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

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Olwynmary

A speedy recovery to you - hope you're back in full cooking and sewing form soon! Meanwhile, make the most of having everyone make a fuss of you and catch up on your reading.

Viviane

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Viviane

I never have a glass of water/juice/cuppa far from my fingers, and Cornflake just needed a few minutes hard cuddling to settle down in his usual blomph like fashion! I think he'd missed me!

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Kate Dicey

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