Home from the Hospital: My Recovery Journey

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trudel
Dec 15, 2010 11:04 am

Hi everybody, I got back home from the hospital last week and have felt pretty wretched most of the time. The time in the hospital was pretty awful and frightening at times. In the end, they gave me a hysterectomy, plus removed my cancer tumor that was pressing on my rectum, so they removed that and gave me a colostomy. In all, it was quite a terrible experience, but I'm home now, 3 weeks post-op. I'm still finding it hard to come to terms with it all, as I find it a bit disgusting. I am having antibiotics, so things are pretty loose at present. It's not helping that I'm at home alone at present as my other half is in the hospice being looked after because the chemo he last had knocked him about a lot, so I'm not strong enough to look after him, only able to cope with myself at the moment. I have a district nurse coming every day and a neighbor being very helpful. Anyway, I must be feeling a bit better because I didn't have the strength to come on the computer last week, but here I am now. I just have to learn to take every long day at a time; I must learn not to be so impatient.

Best wishes to all,

Trudel

Traveling Lady
Dec 18, 2010 2:23 am
What a horrible ordeal! Have you any other support, friends or family, nearby?
I'm just getting started but have already found that this community has been there when everyone else (though well-meaning) spout platitudes. Please let us all know how we can help.
Take care, Carolyn
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After I got my ostomy I found this site and got a lifetime membership. I have had so much help from the core members, things that even the wound care nurses didn't know. If you haven't been through this journey you don't know - only the people that have experienced this first hand truly understand what your going through. The support is enormously helpful getting through this. Afterwards when you start to learn how to deal with this new normal you can begin to help others.  ...mtnman. 

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