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Abominable Abdomnials

Earlier this week I had an emergency surgery on my appendix. OUCH!!! It was caught before it ruptured, thankfully.

The recovery hurts like hell and i just have three small incisions. I hear all this "too posh to push" crap and all I can think of now is how is must be to have a c-section and try to care for a newborn!

Has anyone out there had an apendectomy? I'd love to hear your stories and any tips for recovery.

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I had mine out at the end of July. I also had the laproscopic. I thought it totally sucked. I really think it was worse than my c-section. Sounds crazy but after the c-section I had S to occupy me. After months of anticipation she was finally there for me to hold her and love her up. Secondly, as a newborn, S weighed just under 8 pounds. She was 16-months when I had my appendix out and she was a 25 pounder then. Way harder to pick up! Plus, she is way more wiggly now and I took a couple of sharp elbows to the incision when we were trying to have quiet time with her sitting on my lap.

It took me a full two weeks to recover from the appendectomy and the bigger of the three incisions still hurts sometimes.

Take care of yourself!!!!

  • By SunshineDaydream at 09/22/2005 - 1:09am

Don't pick up the kids!

Don't pick up the kids! Don't vaccuum! Don't push a stroller!

REALLY! I heard all of that after my c-section, did all three, and wound up with popped stitches and an incision that WOULD NOT heal for months.

Take care of yourself, feel better, and many thanks for mentioning all of us c-section lovelies!

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  • By mamasusie at 09/21/2005 - 7:00pm

ouch

That sounds painful! I will be very careful. They said 6 weeks before I should lift anything over 20lbs. Really, no pushing the stroller? That was the one thing I was hoping would still be OK but I now that I think of it, that does used lots of abdominals doesnt it. Crapper.

Thanks for your good wishes mamasusie.

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  • By Boomalicious at 09/21/2005 - 7:04pm

ouchie!

i know that pain! (from my cesarian) i think it's funny too how there is this idea that women who have cesarians are somehow avoiding pain - ummm, try standing up after major abdominal surgery. ouch!

take it easy, boomer lady.

  • By Lucy Pinball at 09/21/2005 - 6:24pm

I really can't imagine

I really can't imagine having a newborn to take care feeling like this! It must have been so hard.

Thanks Lucy Pinball.

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  • By Boomalicious at 09/21/2005 - 6:49pm

Thanks Gigi

It is so hard not to pick them up! But I just can't. They have been pretty understanding so far (but I've only seen them about 6 hours since Sunday) Sad We will be doing a lot of cuddling in bed to make up for it.

How are you doing today? Still feeling awful?

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  • By Boomalicious at 09/21/2005 - 6:52pm

youch!

Yeah, I've heard c-sections are a bitch to recover from. People don't think about that I guess. Do you have any family to help out? Hope you feel better soon.

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  • By sugarhiccup at 09/21/2005 - 4:39pm

My husbands parents live

My husbands parents live near where he works (and where the hospital is) so they have had the girls for three days in a row. Luckily, they are retired so are flexible and have been so enormously helpful. I have to think of a nice way to thank them.

Thanks sugarhiccup.

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  • By Boomalicious at 09/21/2005 - 6:54pm

Hope you heal

quickly, boomer! (No appendectomy advice or stories here.)

  • By Sobriquet at 09/21/2005 - 4:14pm

Thanks!

I'm working on it. Lots of sleeping today Smile

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  • By Boomalicious at 09/21/2005 - 6:54pm

ooooh ouch

never had an appendectomy, but i did have a c section. one thing i learned, listen to the doctor who tells you to take it easy. it hurts like a bitch to pop one of those internal stitches. (do they use those in appendectomies?) let it heal a good long time before you're doing the hardcore pilates.

hope you feel better soon.

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  • By Fart O. Zelinsky at 09/21/2005 - 2:18pm

Ok, I will take it easy. My

Ok, I will take it easy. My kids are at their grandparents for the day so I am just going to try to heal today. I don't know if I have interntal stitches. I was so anxious to get out, I didn't want to ask any more questions!

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  • By Boomalicious at 09/21/2005 - 2:30pm

if it was laproscopic

then they may not have needed to cut you, therefore no internal stitches.

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  • By Fart O. Zelinsky at 09/21/2005 - 4:43pm

there are three 1/2 inch incisions

And there are stitches on the outside but Im not sure of the internal ones. You are right, probably for such small incisions they don't have internal ones. Although, I think they put internal stiches in the colon from where they removed the appendix.

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  • By Boomalicious at 09/21/2005 - 7:00pm

ouchie!!

Yes, the fantasy world where birth hurts and is dangerous but surgery doesn't and isn't.
So sorry!! I wish you a few pain pills and and a quick recovery!

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  • By sunflower at 09/21/2005 - 2:12pm

I love your new tag line

Thanks I think we should have a new thread of Yoda of the Vagina quotes.

MMMmmmm....pain pills (said homer style). I am very thankful for percocet today.

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  • By Boomalicious at 09/21/2005 - 2:28pm

thank punk mama

Ovulating you are, horny you will be, hmmmm?

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  • By sunflower at 09/21/2005 - 2:58pm

Ha ha

Good one.

Here's my version:
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  • By Boomalicious at 09/21/2005 - 7:09pm

I hope you feel better soon!

I hope you feel better soon! How awful for you! but good that they caught it before it ruptured.

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  • By Trula at 09/21/2005 - 2:07pm

Thanks Trula.

I am glad we got to the ER before it ruptured, too. I didn't think it was that serious but my husband remembered his Dads appendix erupting so he really encouraged me to get it checked out. It's a miracle I actually got somewhere early Smile

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  • By Boomalicious at 09/21/2005 - 2:22pm

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