1 week + 4 days post op

Sleep, sleep, sleep. This seems to be all that my body wants me to do at the moment. I cannot believe how much I am sleeping!

I am getting a fair amount of pain in my arm, and a little bit in my shoulder. Also, my back and neck are beginning to hurt from wearing the sling so much of the time. Because of this I have spent a lot of today just lying down without a sling on and trying to rest my arm and my shoulder as much as possible. I also have a slight headache this afternoon.

Occasionally I have signs of being a little bored. I have a list of things that I can do during my recovery period which I prepared before I had my operation, but I'm feeling so tired that I haven't managed to do any of them yet. But at least I'm beginning to think of doing some things.

I think that my husband is beginning to feel the pressure of having to do a lot more at home than he's used to doing. And certainly the tensions are running a little high at times in the house. My 17 year old son has also done a lot at home last week and this weekend - on the positive side I think he's learning to do some very useful things such as cleaning, cooking and putting the washing on. This recovery period would certainly have been impossible without some people at home to help me do even some of the most basic things.

And by the way, this is being typed up using Siri because my typing with my left hand is incredibly slow. Ah, the benefits of modern technology!

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