Okay Now I am worried.
on 1/31/13 12:34 pm
Awesome!! I am glad you replied. How many weeks did you take off of work? This is what I am trying to decide. I have about a 20 minutes strip of nothing but other than that most of my clients are in nursing homes. Most of my contracted nursing homes are in a city area so I can find a gas station if need be. My longest drive is a straight hour but there is mostly cities every ten miles or so.
They never give us Hospice Nurses enough time off in my opinion. Five years with this company and I only get three weeks and three days. We need a week off every two months. They say Hospice Nursing is more stressful than having breast cancer according to the nursing board and educational tests I have taken. LOL. One of the highest stress jobs out there and I only get three weeks. =P to that. lol.
Nice to meet a fellow HN. I am up for any info you have on recovery while in the field and how long it took. =)
I had laproscopic surgery and at three weeks was starting to be able to take care of myself, get my fluids in and sleep a little bit. I couldn't have gone back to a desk job half time at three weeks. I was older so maybe that was it (50ish). I know other folks recovered a lot faster than I did but I wanted you to hear my story.
~Becky
44 here. I had an open ds 6 weeks 3 days ago. Still VERY sore. Reaching, bending, turning in bed causes a fair amount of pain. I have help during the day for my 11 month old, at this stage I could not lift him and chase him. If I do too much at the end of the day I am hurting A LOT! Getting in/out of my mini van causes pain and pressing around my incision hurts/tender.
Dr. says it is normal for this much pain. My incision is still open/draining and will need another three weeks to close per my Dr.
I have had three c-sections and I was pain free at about 7-10 days. I did not expect to have this much pain at over six weeks out with the DS.
