How long is everyone taking before they go back to work?

Lotusflower,

I too have been depressed. Yesterday I broke down after looking at my incisions. I must admit that I have had issues with depression in the past, but have dealt with it as best as I could. My husband had a valid point. food makes me happy and now that I cannot satisfy my needs with food what will I do? This will be work in progress. I can honestly tell you that I did not go to the mall today because of the Great Cookie (snickerdoodles). I buy them buy the half pound, at one time by the 1lb bucket. It is weird, I'm not hungry just obsessed with different foods. It may be churros, Cookies, ribs, cinnamon buns, etc. I have a terrible sweet tooth. I know it may sound a little nutty, but I really like food.

On a lighter note, the 10 lbs I lost is great. I can fit into shirts that would have otherwise collected dust. My goal weight is 160, anything smaller I think I will look sickly. Well, I am going to relax and enjoy my last day home.

LotusFlower, Just keep up the good work, It sounds like you know what the problem is and handling it very well..but not all is lost, Those foods that are so bad for you, you will be able to have them again! just needs to chew chew chew and not over do it. But we need to get the protein FIRST!

Congrats!:thumbup:

Kim, I will keep my fingers crossed for you! I think it is either people feel like they are a little sore or they are in terrible pain - nothing in between! Also, it seems women handle it better (maybe because we are used to monthly menstrual cramps). Either way, Good luck on Monday - I will keep my fingers crossed for you!

I tried going back to work today for a little bit. I just wanted to see how I would do. I got there about 10:30 and it was just a mad house. Lunch came and I drank my soup, then I just had a bad sinking spell. I tried to wait it out til five but no way. So I headed out and got home and slept 3 hrs. So I don't know what I am gonna do when Monday comes around. I hope that work is gonna work with me, cause I don't think that I can handle 9 hrs. I guess I will see. I do feel better today.

Allison

I had my surgery on the 6th and felt good pretty much immediately. I definitely didn't feel "normal" but felt really good. I took my pain meds for about 36 hours regardless of the fact I wasn't in pain...I mostly just wanted to sleep. I never had any gas pains or any problems. Every day was a significant improvement from the previous day with day 3 being fantastic! I went camping 4 days after surgery and didn't have a problem at all. I've been more sore for the past 2 days than I was for the previous 2 days because I did some hardcore sweeping on Wednesday and that worked all the muscles I shouldn't have been working. I had my post-op appointment today and like I told the doc, "it wasn't a big deal at all". I had my surgery on a Thursday and was definitely back to my old self and would have gone back to work on Monday had I not gone out of town.