The next step...

Now that I am out of the hospital, I feel much more free, a lot healthier and a lot more normal.
Every day I feel better. I overdid it a bit yesterday so I am a little sore today but I am not taking any pain medication so it can't be that bad.

My first couple days back at the hotel have been really good. I haven't been having many problems, I have been joining Alecia and all the others for dinners (even though I just have a drink) but we also went grocery shopping yesterday so I now have some provisions in my room that I can eat.

My only big issues with the room were more around the actual room. The first room we were put in when we got back to the hotel was 401 I think.. and the shower didn't have a handheld feature which newly post op is really important for me. The second room we were put in was 103 and I couldn't even fit through the shower door!!! I eventually requested we move to 206 which I already knew from presurgery was a room I liked and a bathroom that was suitable.

You really do need to make sure to really know what you need and have it, especially when it comes to the bathroom! Newly postop is not the time to be suffering with less than you need.

Alecia wanted to see WalMart so that is where we ended up getting groceries. I was sore and had trouble standing for long periods of time so the taxi driver Ana helped me pick out the right foods and put them into the cart. She put them onto the conveyor and bagged them for me as well! She was so helpful and sweet.

Afterwards we were going to go to Angelinis which is another grocery store but since we managed to pick enough up at Walmart, I decided against it. Instead, Ana agreed to take Alecia and me on a taxi tour of some parts of the city (mainly the Italian section). We went to the cemetery where all the burials are above ground in crypts. We went through a beautiful park where we saw the Capivari which is a huge rodent (similar in appearance to a beaver but without the tail). They reminded me a bit of Loki (my cat) but they of course were muuuuch bigger. (about the size of a warthog?) They are protected so they can't be hunted or harmed.

After a bit more driving around, we came back to the hotel and Ana arranged for the groceries to be brought to the room on the luggage cart. Alecia quickly put them away and I had one of the best tasting fat free/sugar free chocolate puddings in the world!!!!!!!!!

So today is the 30th and I am 6 days post-op. I am eating mainly juices, pudding, yogurt, jello and broth.. but I also have 10 fresh eggs in the fridge... soon, I will be cracking an egg into my soup or soft boiling it :)

Thank goodness we have a stove in the room!

So today will be a day to stick around at the hotel. I have a dentist appointment tomorrow early and Vera will be here soon to check on me so today I will relax and recoup..