Meltodown today

So I am 8 days out from my hernia/TT and I had my first real meltdown today. First of all, my brother is here with his girlfriend and it is extremely hard for me not to play hostess. Second, I went grocery shopping which took forever since I am not moving that fast. I got home and just felt sick. I told my husband I needed to go lay down in bed and I just started bawling. I am so used to being able to go go go, especially since the last surgery, and now...all I can do is sit sit sit. I know I am only a week out and need time, however it has just been such an adjustment for me. Third, my brother is driving me crazy! Love him to death and all, however he and his girlfriend are young and deaf....seriously. My husband about had a heart attack when we came home this afternoon and you could hear the TV before we got inside. So we turned it down when we got inside and as soon as that happened, they turned it back up....errr....I am so just...testy today....I hate it. Sorry I had this little breakdown but I figured if anybody would understand it would be you guys. Thanks for *listening*

Aw, Maghan! If they are visiting you this soon after you just had a big surgery why aren't they taking care of YOU? You need some rest, pampering and gentle activity, not frustrations. Family is wonderful but sometimes we just have to wonder about them. Hang in there!!!

I would tell them to please understand that you are not feeling well and to please behave like adults near a surgery recovering person or otherwise take a walk towards their own place. yeah, yeah, I know, it's hard but it needs to be done. You need to get your rest and why did YOU have to go grocery shopping? Your husband is the one supposed to do that-sorry but it's the honest true, you need to take care of yourself and let your husband take care of everything else and yes I know is hard, I like to do everything myself but sometime we need to let go and let others do it, they are perfectly capable.

Thank you all for your help. I don't know what I would do without this board. Probably go crazy. I will be taking it easy from now on. My husband also works with my surgeon and told him what all I did today and needless to say I got a phone call this afternoon telling me to quit. So I am going to slow things down and keep things quiet around the house and try to heal quickly. Thank you all again. You are wonderful!

Hope you rested today!!! It was cold and snowy and quiet here...all I did was try not to eat and ended up eating way too much anyway. It needs to be spring!

Well you know...today was a big football day and being that I still had company we had wayyyyyy too much food and I grazed. Makes me mad! I too need it to be spring. I did however manage to do abosolutely nothing! I feel so good today, other than the fact that it is one a.m. and here I am once again not able to sleep. Oh well....soon! It was very cold and snowy here also, however the snow was so beautiful and my dogs were so excited when they went out this morning that they pretty much spent most of their day in and out playing in the snow...it was so nice! Thanks for checking in...you are so wonderful and we, here in the December group, are truely blessed to have somebody like you here to help support all of us!

I cannot believe you are still awake....Dont feel bad about the grazing...Monday will be another day...Plus with all the stress of the football games---Darn Brett Favre and the interception that lost the game ! I could have chewed my own arm off. Good thing for the Giants Kicker though...i suppose if he would have missed a 3rd field goal he would have been F I R E D! Take care of yourself....continue to rest...there will be plenty of time in the spring and once you are 100% to RUN around..... dawn

Well sleep has not been so great since the surgery. It is like my body decides alright it is time to get up and do some moving...darn it anyway. I am trying not to feel bad about the grazing, but it is hard. Yes that was one stressful football game. I was so disappointed! Thanks for your encouragement. It is greatly appreciated!

I think the graze bug has bit all of us recently! Ugh the holidays and stress.. I started the 5 day pouch test yesterday and I already feel so much better and in control. Hang in there and know you aren't alone and have been through a lot recently.. remember its a day at a time sort of thing! *HUGS*