I made the switch from opiates to Tylenol easily. But the Tylenol is messing with my stomach really badly. But I can’t take iburophen and I’m still in pain from the surgery. Not opiates type pain but just the achy kinda stuff that Tylenol takes care of. I’ve been sipping on ginger ale since midnight and I just had some saltine crackers now. So I feel kinda ok now. We are now for sure going to my home state for thanksgiving. I guess I’m ok with it. There’s just this one cousin I don’t want to see but I’m not sure she’ll be there. There’s a few grocery stores I like to go to that I can go to on Black Friday. Grocery stores are empty that day. But I don’t really have a choice about going or not. My mom won’t leave me alone during Thanksgiving and I don’t want to be difficult just because I’m worried about one person.

I went to Walgreens this morning to get some more Tylenol and some flavored waters. I also got witches brew Kit Kat’s which are marshmallow flavored. The trip was kinda difficult for me physically. So maybe my recovery isn’t going exactly as fast as I was thinking it was going.

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Edit: after the saltine crackers my stomach is better. My pain is still there but it’s not as bad. I’m still just concerned about the whole bladder prolapse thing. But I’m not having any pain from the incisions and I’ve been wearing cargo shorts that button all day. My stomach isn’t big and I like lifting up my shirt to see my top surgery scars and how everything is gone and I like looking at my hysterectomy incisions and feeling so good about myself. And feeling like who I really am. So there hasn’t been a lot of post op depression today.

I’ve been focused on eating healthy lately. I think maybe my hysterectomy boosted my self esteem. My issue lately has been watching my sodium. Yeah something may be 120 calories but it can often have 900 milligrams of sodium. But I’m trying to get out of the “I can eat whatever I want and be skinny just long as I don’t eat a lot of it.” mindset and focus more on foods that are actually good for me.

My 5 year old nephew is having a meltdown because he dropped his ice cream cone that he can easily get another one from the freezer. Yeah this is why I didn’t hesitate signing off that I never wanted to have kids.