Ugly Truths...

So I write this not only as a cathartic way to get out my own junk but on the slim chance someone I don't know will read it and find use for it.  (I intend on being blunt so please don't read if you have queezy tummy's)  So its time for the ugly truths.  Surgery hurts.  The medical folks give you opiates to combat the pain.  Opiates have a nasty side effect OIC, opiate induced constipation.  Basically your entire digestive systems shuts down.  Its normal peristalsis (movement of the muscles & hairs) stops.  This gets pretty painful.    No poop, no gas, not nothing for days.... So now I am having 2 different types of pain, gas & bloating plus the actual surgical procedure.  Another by product of OIC is that any food I consumed past a certain point, can't digest.  So yesterday I vomited dinner from Thursday.  Asparagus looks like green beans when it comes back to say hello. As if all this wasn't bad enough...wait I am also female, so what should show up now??  My period.  Now I have 3 different types of pain, menstrual, bloating & surgical.  I can not honestly say I don't know what pain it what. Its all very uncomfortable.  I am using the stuff that people are given before a colonoscopy to keep my digestive tract moving.... fun (*sarcastically*).  I think I may break out the heating pad for my poor uterus, and I keep ice on the incisions.  I keep thinking it's got to get better.  I just have got to get through this 1st week.  So I will keep doing what I am doing and think about the light at the end of the tunnel where my mid section feels normal again.

I am 33 I had cancer and my body is a wreck!

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