It’s been 17 days since my surgery and I went back to work today.  It was a gloomy morning, which made going to work a little easier knowing it wasn’t going to be as sunny and gorgeous outside as it has been these past two weeks.

On Monday, I tried to make the most of my last day off.  Mirian came in the morning to keep Kumquat occupied while I purged my closet, went to the bank, did some grocery shopping, had a nice solo lunch with a magazine, and went to see the surgeon for my post-op follow-up appointment.

There’s something so satisfying about holding an actual magazine in my hand.  I have all the digital copies of Sunset on my Kindle but somehow I still enjoy flipping through real pages.

By the way, at my post-op appointment, the doctor showed me what he cut out of my body.  He said that there were little lumps of fat that were poking through the hole in my abdominal wall, which was causing the sharp pain and a funny lump at the top of my belly button.  When he went in, he cut them out and snapped a photo of it for his report.  He also emailed me the photo!  What a cool doctor!  I’ll spare you all the lovely photo of my fat blobs but let me know if you want to see and I’ll show it to you.  I thought it was a fun little souvenir from my first open surgery. 😉  He also said that the hole was small enough that he was able to just suture it back instead of placing a mesh patch.  Yay!  No foreign object in my body!!

So, I’m back to work with a 30-lb lifting restriction for the next two weeks.  It was nice to see everyone again but the work was just “meh”.  Oh I wish I could have had a few more weeks off…