Yesterday's doctor appt

The appt went well.  Nothing too exciting.  He took out my staples, one of which hurt, but they're gone.  YEA!  Then he said I'm in so much pain because I'd pulled a muscle in my abdominal wall from reaching too high.  He said it should heal fine on it's own in the next week if I don't do it again.  He said the tapes would fall off on their own in the next few days.  To me that translated to "you can pull off the ones that are buggin you."  So I did.  I'm very pleasantly surprised.  It looked like my incision wasn't healing much at all.  Come to find out it was just all the yuck stuck to the tapes!  I pulled them off and showered and hardly have any scabbing at all.  The top 2 inches of my incision is all that's scabbed, bleeding, and weeping.  He said it's caused by the dissolvable sutures and should pass soon.   I'm free to start bending a little, walking more, lifting a little (gradually working my way to 20lbs), but to continue with the binder for another week.   I'm also free to try just about any food except bread, rice, pasta, pork, and beef (except ground).  I had a soft scrambled egg for breakfast.  YUM!  I had Wendy's chili for dinner.  Also YUM!  Tonight I'm making white chili and sitting down to dinner with my family. He even told me I could have stuffing on Christmas even though it's made from bread because of how it's prepared. I'm pretty pleased!  I can't wait to be free of this binder and have my incision completely healed so I can take a bath and shave my legs!!!

Take care.. dont over do it...

Sounds like you had a good visit.  I was wondering about you.  This step is kinda exciting isn't it?? 

It is, but I'm a little afraid of the day that I eat something that DOESN'T agree with me.  It's sort of weird cooking things for the family now.  It's weird knowing that if I make spaghetti then I'm just going to be eating the sauce and meatballs.  Tonight I they're having rice with their white chili and I'm just having the chili with some cheese.  It's a whole new way of looking at things.  I keep hearing that old Schoolhouse Rock song  "exercise your choppers really chew chew chew, exercise your choppers on some good hard food".  I'm not supposed to have hard food but I still can't get that silly song out of my head.