As promised, here’s a look at my stomach. It was very hard to get a good, focused, well-lit photo with my crappy camera, I got the bright idea to hold a mirror to my stomach and shoot the reflection. I make no apologies for my stomach-I had to sit in an awkward position in order to get them all in one shot, so go ahead and snicker at my two-pack abs.
Here are all four of the incisions, nice and gauzed and taped:
and here’s the main ones-if you see a little pink scar below the top bandage, that’s from my appendectomy last year. I’m very surprised they don’t hurt.
Welcome to my ordinary (and sometimes not-so-ordinary) life. I live in my own little world. But it’s okay, they know me here.
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May 29, 2007 at 8:19 am
Sandy
Hey Janet! I “lost” you there for awhile - didn’t realize you’d moved to WordPress. I’m glad I found your blog again!
I’m sorry about the gallbladder surgery - I had mine out last July and all I can say is - take it EASY for a couple of weeks! The surgery may be routine but it does take a lot out of you, so to speak. But I’m glad you’re healing well and glad you can eat bacon again! What is life without bacon?
May 29, 2007 at 8:24 am
Janet
Hi there Sandy! I’m starting to get restless and eyeing the grass wistfully. I’m glad I can eat bacon-not as much of it as I used to, but I couldn’t live without it once a week, cholesterol be damned!
May 29, 2007 at 11:13 am
Sandy
Bacon once a week is a must! Maybe not more often but once is great!
TOAST CRUMBS! YAY! I just knew your book blog would be “somewhere!” I didn’t see a link on your main page but probably didn’t know what I was looking for! Anyway, so glad to have found it - I love reading your book reviews - I’ve found that we often - not always but often - have similar book tastes!
May 29, 2007 at 12:55 pm
mark
Holy smokes! I’m MIA for a month or two and when I return you’ve been under the knife‽ I had to look back and see what happened - I’m glad you’re on the mend and I wish you a speedy recovery!
May 29, 2007 at 2:18 pm
Claudia
Hey Janet,
I could not comment on your desperate booksellers as I
am so sorry but I ain’t no bookreader. I just never took to
reading for some reason, however, I am very familiar with
bellies (our’s sorta favor), therefore first I am still trying to figure out how in the world did you take the picture! (Remember I tried to take a pic of
my new tooth). Second, it looks like it would be very tender
and sore. So I do hope you get back to normal soon. A sick and
po’ed Janet must be miserable for you. Hurry and get well.
I will be thinking about you
May 29, 2007 at 7:58 pm
QofD
Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Here’s to a speedy recovery, I guess I’m a wimp because that doesn’t look like fun at all.
May 29, 2007 at 9:20 pm
Janet
Thanks for the wishes!
I took off the bandages of the two on the side and the one below my belly button because when I took a shower tonight they got waterlogged somehow in spite of the plastic tape. The pamphlet said not to worry if they fell off, so whoops, they fell off, I’m not worried.
The grass seems to get higher every time I look at it but Mom says not to even think about the lawn mower. I’m not up to it anyway but it would be nice if the Lawn Mowing Fairy came.
May 29, 2007 at 10:23 pm
Jay
So if I had to have my gall bladder removed they’d have to shave my chest and belly? That would be interesting. LOL
May 30, 2007 at 12:43 am
LeeAnn
Isn’t glue wonderful! (I am assuming that’s what they used to close you up)
May 30, 2007 at 2:53 am
Cindi
It’s amazing that they can do that surgery now with just the little holes and not have cut you open. One of my girlfriends had the type of surgery you had some years back when it was a new procedure. I think the recovery time is a lot better than with the old way they used to do it.
I hope you don’t push it and get out there mowing too soon. Maybe your brother-in-law or sister can mow it for you? I couldn’t remember if your sister was married or not.
May 30, 2007 at 2:57 am
Cindi
Oh, I wanted to add….you commented on my blog about Notes on a Scandal. I haven’t read the book but after seeing the movie, I looked up the book and added it to my “to buy” list on Amazon. When Mom and I watched the movie, after the first few minutes we kept having troubles understanding some of the British slang. Mom thought it was her bad hearing so we restarted the dvd and put the captioning on. That helped tremendously for both of us. We realized that some of the words we couldn’t understand were just slang words used by the Brits and it helped us to figure out what they meant! It was a very good movie.
May 30, 2007 at 7:09 am
Janet
Jay-no, they’d WAX your chest and belly. That’s right, they’d rip those hairs right out of your skin. And they’d take pleasure in doing it. hee, hee, hee.
LeeAnn-eww, I’d rather see dissolvable stitches than Elmer’s glue. They probably use some kind of Super Glue but still, eww.
Cindi-Many years ago I had an ovarian cyst removed and I have a long horizontal scar at what we’ll call my bikini line. I think it took a while to recover from that one, but I wonder if the little holes make people think they’re better before they really are… like me, for example. Of course, I’m too old to bounce back in two days instead of two weeks, like I probably could have twenty years ago.
And my mom has relied on captioning for a long time since before her hearing started getting worse, not just for British shows-she says a lot of actors don’t enunciate. I’m interested to see how closely the “Notes” book resembles the movie.
May 30, 2007 at 7:42 am
Carmon
Hey Janet…better watch out, someone will flag you for those racy belly shots! Glad you are continuing to improve and stay smart about your activity level. One thing about lawns, they aren’t going anywhere!
May 31, 2007 at 8:25 am
jackiesgarden
Still giggling - you said you’d do this - but I didn’t think you really would! LOL
Believe me, Janet, this scope surgery IS WAAAAY easier to recover from than the conventional surgery. I had three c-sections and a hysterectomy where they cut straight down from my belly button to there - and I was lots younger then, than when I had my gall bladder out two years ago with the scope surgery. With the scope, they aren’t cutting long incisions through all your layers, just small holes…way faster healing.
But DON’T mow the lawn yet!
May 31, 2007 at 9:43 pm
Velvet Sacks
I’m impressed that you’re doing so well (but don’t overdo, you hear?) and even more impressed that surgeons can remove a gall bladder though such tiny incisions. Most impressive of all is your creative mirror photography.