I’m going back to work today 😭😭😭 Second guessing this decision as everyone IRL I know who has had this surgery went back at 4-6 weeks and I’m at 2 weeks, 2 days.My dr said they’ve had people go back at 1 week with drains. He wrote the original note for 2-4 weeks. Everyone is different in their healing.
I don’t get a sub so all my work is waiting and piling up. I did schedule things around this but I need to go get things started and make up things I’ve missed. I do have I think 5 more sick days...but H is leaving for a month for the military in 3.5 weeks and I need to save them for the kids. I’m scared about that! I can’t lift DS anytime soon.
A gossipy judgmental coworker is grilling my friend for information and being really awful about it. She got mad at her for not telling her what’s going on and asked her again this week. I will see her today. Part of me wants to say it’s personal and for the principal of the thing not tell her anything. But realistically she will press people or talk behind my back until she is satisfied so I’m probably going to say it’s a hernia. We are on good terms but I see through her and She is not a nice person.
I’m not in pain, as my abdomen is numb. I move slow and carefully. I can’t engage my abs. Like can’t bc of the stitches and bc it’s still not possible. I haven’t needed Tylenol or Motrin for like 4-5 days. I’m a little hunched still. I’m TIRED though. Slept like crap last night on the recliner. Had a great dr appt yesterday. Everything looks perfect.
I asked my surgeon how many stitches I have and without skipping a beat he said “hundreds”. 😳
campermom- good luck!! Can you go with “I had to have surgery to correct an abdominal problem” and answer follow ups with “it was serious but not life threatening” and “it’s really not something I am comfortable talking about but it means a lot that you were concerned.” All true without actually saying anything, lol.
mommyatty, That sounds excessive. DS is in 2nd grade. And we are supposed to read for 20 minutes a night, and then we get some math homework sheets on the weekend. I actually like the weekend math sheets versus school night ones, because he can sit down for 15 minutes and work on them while I am doing something else, like filling out school paperwork or answering email. In 5K he brought home small story books that he had to "read" to us. Some of which he had totally memorized, and then we had some weekend homework sheets.
campermom, when I had my hernia surgeries, I found bringing a small pillow to press against my stomach for support helped immensely when I went back to work. People knew I had been out for surgery, so no one really questioned it too much. Good luck!
Post by HeartofCheese on Sept 26, 2019 10:09:25 GMT -5
campermom, hope you heal quickly. And I would tell the nosy witch that you were out for medical reasons and have no desire to discuss it at work. Then - b/c she's a jerk - I'd tell her if she's going to insist on finding out, she's going to have to do it the old-fashioned way, i.e., by violating your privacy.
sandandsea, my DS also wants his hair combed directly forward and if it was recently cut, he totally looks like Lloyd (Jim Carrey).
Vent: I decided to take advantage of my landline by using it as a direct line to my kiddos (so only my parents and ExH have the number), but I've discovered the phone jack doesn't work. Is there even any such thing as a phone jack technician anymore??? Will he come to my place peddling his van with his feet and then hit the jack with a club? If I grab the phone to answer it, will a dinosaur spit in my ear? I'm so put out that the ancient hardware in my house isn't working... XD
campermom, co-workers are not allowed to talk about other co-workers medical stuff. Pretty sure there is a law on that, Hippa? Telling nosy person would be a violation, her asking might be as well. Sounds like it might be good for administration to remind everyone of that.
Post by erinshelley21 on Sept 26, 2019 13:32:22 GMT -5
mustardseed2007waverly I dont know what the big deal was. There was a miscommunication a couple of weeks ago over how to do the re-wire in the bedrooms. When we were talking about it DH said he wanted more time to think about it and the part of the convo that I remembered was him saying he was fine with it in the bedrooms, so I told the electrician to go ahead. So that's probably it. He seems to be able to keep up with things by communicating on the fly and I am not keeping up since I have to manage our lives outside of this house and he basically just has that.