Day 6 (Thursday)

I am itchy today! Which is better than being in pain.

I slept for nearly 11 hours last night--a solid deep sleep, thank you Percocet--and woke up feeling incredibly well rested, and much less sore.

Visit from Opus

My incision sites are not tender on the outside at all today, but I so want to scratch them. Lightly scratching the skin immediately surrounding them is no longer doing the job (all of you know exactly what I mean, even if you've never had surgery - think mosquito bite, etc.).

Instead of giving into scratching, I am using the heating pad* Mom let me borrow. It is helping a little.

Opus has also been keeping me company, which is a nice distraction.

Just have to keep telling myself, itchy is a good sign....

[break]

While getting ready to post this, I sneezed. Most painful thing ever.

Mind is off itchiness.


* I don't think I mentioned before that I used the heating pad to ease the gas pain on Day 2. It was recommended by my nurse, and it did make me feel a little more comfortable.