howdy sir Glen! praying for your wife this morning. sure missed conversing with you last week but real life and rejuvenation takes precedence..it will be wonderful to have you back though! God bless you guys and a very fast recovery for your wife!
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Hey, @janton.
Thank you for the well wishes and the prayers. She's been out of surgery for about 2.5 hours now and apparently all went well. When the surgeon got in there, she found to other much smaller hernias that she ended up sowing together as best she could. We've been back now for roughly 40 minutes and as long as we didn't undo everything they did in surgery getting her into bed, she should be okay. :)
wow sir Glen that is great news! now she just has to be super careful not to pull those stitches out right?
Hey, @janton.
The larger hernia has some kind of meshing inside of it, which I'm assuming helps it to close, or causes it to be tighter, and so I'm not sure what could happen to it or with it. I just know that right now, it's the source of most of her pain/soreness. The other two were so small that the surgeon just did some kind of stitch work and didn't guarantee that they would hold regardless of what we did.
As it is, our bedroom is upstairs and aside from a couple of couches that wouldn't let her prop up very well, there wasn't too many options for her to be, so she had to up the stairs when we got home and that's basically where she's been since yesterday.
So, getting in out of bed has been more difficult, and I'm not sure what she's managed to do or not do as she gets in and out. I think mainly it's the larger hole they used to perform the surgery with (three holes as opposed to cutting her open), that's ailing her the most now.
sir Glen..so hernia's are tears in the stomach wall? how long did they say she needed to stay in bed? or did they?
man it's so good to have you back, I missed talking to you everyday.
I'm not at all an expert on hernias, but it's not just the stomach area where a hernia can take place. It sounds like the definition is basically any time:
So, not sure what organ or tissue was primarily pushing through on my wife, but it wasn't her stomach.
She has a four week off full-duty restriction and potentially a two week where she could return to light duty if they had it. Unfortunately, she already knows there isn't any light duty. Plus, she's heading to Mexico to visit family three weeks from today which she scheduled at the beginning of the year, so she won't actually be back to work for five weeks.
So, she's not specifically bedridden for any length of time, just that it's painful to move around and probably will be for another 48 hours or so. She is supposed to do some walking, so we'll need to figure out how to make that happen.
re: good to have me back
It's good to be back, as much as I am right now, anyway. Doing this in between calls for one kind of help or another. :)
oh thank you for the explanations and information..as always! you know so much and are so good at explaining things sir Glen.
between calls..ooh yes..now your wife has a servant! lol. serve her honorably sir! haha, I know you will.