What things around the home?

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I am a week post op (laprascopic Total hysterectomy and BSO)

Just wondering what everyone got up to around the house at this stage?

I know we have to be careful....

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    Hi Elaine I am due to have hysterectomy soon just waiting for date, the comments on

    here are so helpful one of my worries is that

    I live alone my sons & daughter in laws are

    close by but I don't want to be a nuisance, I

    just hope I can manage. I had a Rectocele

    repair in 2014 I wish that had done it all then, I'm 62 now & overweight but not un healthy

    really I work full time.

    God bless all the ladies on this site for

    supporting each other.

    • Posted

      I agree, they have helped me. At least we are not alone. Best of luck with your date. X
    • Posted

      It would be really useful to have someone with you for first few days at least day time to make you food drinks etc. You can potter about after then but saying that if hospital know you on own you may be kept in longer. I had op at 4pm and was kicked out 9am next morning! Good luck with op 😊
    • Posted

      How are you having the hysterectomy done? If abdominal then yes you

      May need help cooking etc, I had mine done vaginally, I was cooking the day

      I came out of hospital, I had bought one of those table top cookers

      To get me through so I wasn't bending down lifting things out, just so long

      As you remember the weight restrictions, i.e. nothing heavier than

      A kettle of water,

      this is what I did, of course it won't suit everyone.

      I was 61 when I had my hysterectomy, I'm a bit of a rebel, I was taking my dogs

      Out the day I got home, my neighbour almost had kittens when she

      Saw me lol.

    • Posted

      I am worried about being alone but

      my only choice is a sister miles away

      in Dorset. I have a 15 year old grand daughter but she may be nervous to

      stay at first. I guess if it comes down

      to it one of my sons will have to stay

      but its embarrassing to be honest.

      Thank you so much for the helpful

      advice.

    • Posted

      When I had mine done they asked me if I had somebody to look after me if I didn't they would of sent a nurse round
    • Posted

      you are lucky, you have to be dying here to get a nurse anywhere near,

      They just don't want to know.

    • Posted

      Hi Phoebe I'm exactly the same I'm

      also a bit of a rebel. I would prefer

      to be home in my own bed but i think

      you maybe correct & they will keep

      me in once they realise ive no one

      here. Its the curse of living alone &

      being independent which i love & at

      62 now I know i won't be capable for

      ever. I don't know yet till my meeting

      next week how it will be done. I'm

      terrified to be honest i can still clearly

      remember coming round after my

      rectocele repair & the pain was so

      awful i could hear screaming & didn't

      realise it was me. I'm sure its stuck in

      my head & freaks me out so I keep

      thinking this op will be much worse.

      But...things are so unpleasant now

      & having lost two cousins in their

      50s to Ovarian & Uterus cancers I

      should stop being a wimp & get the

      right mind set. Thanks Phoebe.

    • Posted

      Haha i was like you nothink can get me to rest was out as soon as i could and one if my friends she put me under house arest for doing to much lol
    • Posted

      Yes that should be how it is, I worked since I was 15, with a short break when I had my kids

      But no good dwelling on it.

    • Posted

      I'm sure you will be fine, I got the cancer diagnosis and the

      Consultant who told me was shocked by my laid back response,

      The odd thing is that I suffer horrendous panic attacks and am

      Agoraphobic, it was the trip to hospital that scared me more

      Than the diagnosis.

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      We have a huge copse at the back of our house, it's private but

      We have access to it, within about an hour of getting home I broke

      Out! Lol I'm agoraphobic so don't go more than 3 miles from home

      But I couldn't wait to get in the fresh air.

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