Hey crew - its fantastic to be back home - FINALLY -

Had yet another turn for the worse / crash and burn crisis that set me back / : BUT it turns out to have been from too much Mestinon - docs had me on same dose post surgery as I had been pre surgery..... (60mg q3-4hrs)... I'm down to 30mg x 2 / day and breathing / moving fine.

No sooner get that straightened out (and breathing on my own again)... bodywide HIVES for over a week..... that did not respond to steroids..... 6 hours after getting the last staple out - hives disappear.... General concensus seems to be that even though staples are surgical steel, there is a minute amount of nickel... and I already had reaction problems to costume jewelery (usually made of nickel....). At this rate the list of what I'm not allergic to is going to be shorter than the list of what I am allergic to! - So no more staples for me - sew me up and make me look like bride of Frankenstein....

But regardless of the ups and definite downs, I'm glad I did the thymectomy - the initial path came back hyperplasia but no wonky cells.... but it was the sheer mass of the thing: 188g - surgeon told me "normal" is about 50g while mine was twice as thick as any he had ever seen or removed and he sincerely felt it would have only been a matter of time before it shifted .....

So now I'm home and trying to recover and follow doc's orders about doing very little while watching the pots and pans and dust bunnies collect - but I just keep reminding myself my family is helping the best they can and there are more important things in life than whether the sink is full of dishes or the floors are vacumed...

Sounds like things are getting better...very happy for you!! What a journey you have had!

(PS you have your priorities exactly right....dust bunnies etc. are not important at all)

So glad that you are doing so well!

And what SueV said - life is much easier when you learn to embrace the dust bunnies.....
(and everyone knows that dust is a protective covering for furniture, right?)

Here are some helpful hints about housework.

Vacuuming takes just as much time whether you've done it recently or not. So, it is important to let your house get very, very dirty before you vacuum it. It's so much more efficient that way.

Dirty dishes can only pile up to a certain point before they reach critical mass and set off a minor nuclear fusion reaction, which not only removes the dishes from existence, but also sanitizes your kitchen. So don't worry if you see the pile getting higher. It will eventually take care of itself.

Dirty laundry should be washed, but under no circumstances should it be folded and put away. Long before it reaches critical mass, people will start looking for their clothes in the clean laundry pile instead of in their drawers. That means that the more you put off the laundry, the smaller the pile gets.

Hope this helps,

Abby

OMG: laughing my silly head off- I love it.

Ravenred, I'm glad you are on the road to recovery. That's fantastic.

Seriously, Abby, you need to write a book of humorous stories. That was great!

Luv it, I might post that in my house