slow recovery

This c-section nonsense sucks. What makes it even (slightly) worse is that I knew it would be bad and tried my darndenest to avoid one.

I've now had two incidents of incision blow out. The first being in a doctor's office, the second in my bed in the early hours of Wednesday morning. These are some freaky experiences - leaking a LOT of fluid from your belly - a place where you hadn't had a hole before. Like enough fluid to soak through gauze, nightgown, bedclothes, into the mattress... The first time I soaked through a whole bath towel and took a ride in an ambulance to the ER. On the upside, that saved me bus fair home - since the ER is less than a block from my house.

This time the fluid was darker in color. This time they seemed to take the incident a little more seriously.

I went back to my doctor for yet another round of antibiotics. I am feeling really frustrated because I'm not really sure what's going on, I feel weak and tired, and the drugs aren't kicking it.

I am trying to rest. I've been watching a lot of daytime tv. I find the shows I liked to watch in the 70s and early 80s the most restful: Quincy, Hart to Hart, I Dream of Jeanie, plus some Columbo and Perry Mason tv movies - still hoping to find a cache of re-runs of Love Boat and Fantasy Island on the cable.