I keep getting emails asking about my recovery. I feel like it should be dramatic since everyone is acting like I’ve been receiving treatments from a network of highly skilled doctors from around the world and I’d only been given 3 days to live.
Sorry to disappoint, but it’s nothing that bad. For everyone who knows about my painful discomfort from Ilia’s birth, this one is nothing. Saturday, I was walking the halls of the hospital and the nurses kept commenting on how shocked they were that I had given birth that morning. Sunday, I didn’t feel any pain initially, but later that day the weird pelvic pain I had been experiencing for the past 3 weeks came back. I thought that it would go away with delivery, but it’s Wednesday and still here. I have no idea what it is and Adrian wondered last night if something is dislocated down there. It’s hard to explain, I don’t feel it when I’m sitting, but standing up and walking is horrid. It’s most painful if I close my legs–it feels like my bones are being pulled apart. If I’m laying down it’s magnified–rolling over, getting up, doing almost anything brings on the pain. I’m going to call the doctor today to see what’s up with that. Maybe all I need is an adjustment and a massage.
Other than that, I’m pretty fine. The places where they stuck the IV in my hand and the needle for the epidural in my back hurt a bit, but not enough to complain about. Extra Strength Tylenol is helping and I’m trying to move as much as possible to get rid of the baby weight and regain muscle control.
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