Recovering....

Yesterday was my gallbladder removal surgery and it went textbook smoothly! I am a little sore today, very gassy from all of that air pumped into me! hehe my parents and little sister drove all the way from my home town to be with me, along with my husband. It was so comforting having them all there with me, I did feel better for that. But of course the extreme nerves really kicked in when I was in the O.R. I started crying uncontrollably and shaking like one of those newborn puppies. But the anesthesiologist then gave me what he called "the good stuff". It burned at first going into my vein, and then my body felt so heavy and I felt so loopy and I remember saying "wow....that stuff really is good, you were right doc...." and the very last thing i remember saying something about my etsy shop since my anesthesiologist asked me about it, and then that was it....I was unconscious, but what felt like maybe seconds for me was 40 minutes in real time, I opened my eyes and was in a different room (recovery) and my golly my shoulder was hurting real bad. (the gas pressing up on my diaphragm and causing nerve pain on my right shoulder ) and it also felt like I did over 500 sit ups! I asked the nurse "didn't they finish my surgery?" hahaha she laughed and said yes they did, you were under for about 45 minutes...but I got out of recovery very fast and left the hospital at about 1 pm! (I was only there for a total of almost 8 hours!) my mom got me a get well surprise, she got me this beautiful angel figurine holding sunflowers (my home state's flower) and a lilac candle reminding me of my mom's lilacs back at home, and of course a lovely card with kittens on it (I am a sucker for kittens)...when my parents and sister were at my house, I told my mum to go upstairs and pick out a finished pillow, she picked out a joel dewberry damask one, great choice! I was sad to see them all leave, but they had a long drive back home, I sure know how long that drive is...and my hubby took all of yesterday off from work and watched over me and helped me do everything. I am walking around even better today, keeping my incisions clean, took a nice hot shower this morning, I was awake most of last night with a very raw throat (side effects from the breathing tube and the general anesthetic) I am excited to get back to crafting and walking and riding my bike, jogging, going on many errands without feeling those gallbladder attacks, I am so happy to start living my life and for everything to be back to the way they were before....I haven't had any pains in my chest and back since the surgery, just pain from where the gallbladder was attached and the incisions of course. I feel so much better!