Hello all my friends ... Ooh it is nice having a gathering on my thread.

Just to let you know I am joining the gym. Well, actually I am joining for the swimming pool, jacuzzi and steam bath and sauna. Am joi nig as from today until July so hopefully I will be able to build up some strength and hopefully enjoy myself too.

Past. Ladies .. Do you know about swimming after a hysterectomy?

Hi Saffy
 

I was in the gulf of mexico about 4 weeks after my surgery. Also had a bunch of other stuff down there taken care of. I was sore, but loved being in the water. No problems with infection. Just trouble getting back up the ladder into a boat. Water is good for PT. Have a great time at the gym! Sounds like fun to me! ginnie

Saffy...
 

So good to hear you are so upbeat and thinking of the future and the good times ahead.

Of course, much to be done before that; but looking ahead to good times will keep you in a much better frame of mind. Also, helps much with the healing; mentally and physically.

We're all in your corner and praying. Keep going girl !!! You are a delight !!

Gerry

Hi Karen
 

Hi Karen,

Good for you and why not, did you have the suction hysterectomy or did you have to have the surgery? I think you can swim once your Dr agrees. How has your back pain been since they removed your Stim? I love swimming myself and it is fun, enjoy it, enjoy the weightlessness.

Take care hun, chat soon

Sinéad xxx :)

very good and wise advice

thank you gerry

Sinead..
 

I would put the dash in your name; but don't know how to do it. You have so much to deal with yourself and are so concerned about others. God love you !!:hug:

I think Karen is going to have her surgery around the middle of May. She had mentioned, a while ago, that there would be some small incisions.

Take care. You are in our prayers as well. Was so glad to see you posting again. What is your status at this time?

(Gerry)

Hello All
 

I will not pretend to know or have experience with the finer points of the surgery you discuss; however, I know when my beloved had such surgery I remained with her night and day until she was discharged. Nurses [Please forgive me Pooh] in that particular floor of that particular hospital were useless. Oh, they did the obligatory writing of the name on the board at shift change, but other than checking vitals, I was my wife's nurse. She needed something, I obtained it. She needed help to the restroom, I helped her. Water? I got it. Ice? That as well. So, up close and personal, I remained at my wife's side until I could take her home.

Now as for something I may help with: Gerry, that delightfully beautiful name of a mutual friend can be reproduced by you merely highlighting her name on a post and copying it. Then when you are ready to print the name of our dear friend Sophie, place the cursor wherever you desire and press the right cursor, and paste, then, voila Sinéad appears! Just like that.

We remain here in NC, DIL refuses to take any of the guidance you all have suggested, or that my wife suggests, so, it seems she lays around knowing full well she is not a bed rest patient in order to interpose delay. Fine by me, since Samson's birthday was predicted as May 20. The odd thing is, she has spoken out loud about her hope he does not come on 16 May, the date of the stillbirth last year. Something seems awry with her method and the declaration of Lily's passing. Attention is at issue, methinks. I pray for my wife, our children, and our grandson hoping all remains well through the process. Doc appts for her tomorrow and the next, verifying the status of the baby, who still seems quite healthy.

I return home on Saturday, a blessing in itself, as I have been fairly consigned to the guest room to avoid upsetting the young mama.

Blessings to you dear ones all,
Praying,
Mark56:grouphug:

Gerry
 

Hi Gerry,
Thank you for such kind words and I think Karen will be pleased with the sound advice you posted earlier.
I'm to meet a surgeon next week to discuss my options. I have tons of pain at the Sacro iliac joint, lower back into my bum, my hips hurt like hell and my left leg burns and throbs and is numb in places. For a long time they couldn't find what was causing my pain until the last MRI Scan I had which showed at least two disc protrusions and a whole lot of scar tissue pressing on the S1 nerve root and it is this scar tissue that next to get sorted. I'm desperately praying that the surgeon will agree to help me in some way as many have said no. Of course I had to have my SCS removed so I could have MRI and other tests but I imagine my pain Dr will agree to put another in. I still have the battery in from the last one.

How about your status, you've probably posted it already like me but I missed it. I hope your pain is manageable, I'm on so many strong meds and I hate them.

God bless and I'm sure we will chat again.

Sinéad
PS im not worried about the fada on the e in my name but ctrl alt e should work, I use an iPad and if hold my finger on the e letter I'll get é. or you could do what Mark suggests but I really don't mind if it's not there, we have more to worry about!

My my, we are all going through it ..but I feel our hands in one another's and know that there is always so,done who understands.

Have my hysterectomy, two prolapse repairs and to top it all, the lapascopic removal of my ovaries on 25th may.

I am hanging around here with not much to do, so thought i would join the gyms where I used to work. Don't worry, I won't be lifting weights. But it's a nice place to socialise and with that I am getting g off my bum and out of bed and doing something.