O.U.C.H !

Everyone told me that I'm going to be in a lot of pain after the operation - some even said that the pain is worse than childbirth and so on and so forth. bla-bla-bla.
Oh. My. Word! They were not exaggerating !

My first night in hospital was spent staring at the ceiling, trying to wish the pain away. When they brought out a morphine injection before bed-time I knew that it was going to be a bumpy ride! It didn't make the pain go away.
"Would you like a sleeping tablet Mrs. McDermid ?" I looked at the nurse and thought "Silly woman - surely the morphine will knock me out !"
And then came the longest night of my life. Every hour the nurses came on their rounds.
"Mrs. McDermid, are you still awake ? No Mrs. McDermid, you can't have more painkillers yet." When they came in at 2am with two painkillers I could have kissed them ! But I should have known that tablets won't take away pain that morphine couldn't kill in the first place.
I spent the next day crying (pain and no sleep doesn't go together.)
At 4pm the surgeon came around and it turned out that the cast on my left foot moved, pinching some nerve somewhere. He moved it and the relief was instantaneous. I was however crying so much that he sent a nurse around immediately with two painkillers AND a morphine injection. This time it had the desired effect and I spent the next six hours in some kind of unreal euphoria.
Then came bed-time and another morphine injection. I can totally understand how it can become addictive, I REALLY do.
"Would you like a sleeping tablet Mrs. McDermid ? " "YES PLEASE". No hesitation this time. Within minutes I fell into a deep, dreamless sleep. Total bliss!

It is now 10 days later, the original casts and stitches were removed yesterday and replaced with much smaller casts. Although it is hurting again, my feet (and heart) feel much lighter and I'm moving around easier. Yesterday I couldn't understand why they insisted that I have to take another prescription of painkillers, but by 8am this morning, Synap Forte tablets were once again my best friend !

So, right now I am really looking forward to tomorrow, because I just know that every day will be easier from now on. And in the mean time I'm enjoying my time off and I'm about to start the last volume of Stephen King's Dark Tower series. It is a rather thick volume, but I've got time.

Time to relax

Yay ! The weekend is finally here and we are having a fabulous time at Club Mykonos in Langebaan on South Africa's West Coast. We arrived last night and so far we have just been relaxing, and plan to do that for the rest of the weekend.
Our flat is situated right on the edge of the ocean, overlooking a small beach and some rocks. Oh how soothing it was to fall asleep to the sound of the waves, and, then again to wake up with it ! Fantastic!

Here is a quick layout with some photos I took last night. What a spectacular sunset. I always feel that each spectacular sunset brings the promise of a glorious dawn ....

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