Recovery is a process! That is a phrase I hear every week at CR, but for some reason I felt it would be different with my body. After all I have had a C-section, and I recovered from that surgery fast! Why should gallbladder surgery be any different? But it is!

When I groggily opened my eyes after the surgery I was being told, "Teresa, breathe deeply." I would take a few deep breaths and then pass back out and wake up to the nurse saying the same thing. I don't know what kind of anesthesia I was on, but my body loved it so much that it didn't want to wake up! Lol, or maybe I am a mom that doesn't get enough sleep, so I was enjoying the rest! Either way I was trying to stay asleep. When I was awake enough to bring to the secondary recovery room, I was dizzy and nauseous and so very sleepy!

I ended up staying in the room for 4 hours trying to wake my body up organ by organ. The nurses kept trying to get me to drink soda, which would help the gas built up in my body but soda was the last thing I wanted.  I couldn't seem to get rid of that nauseous feeling. So after my bladder woke up I was insistent upon going home. So as they wheeled me out I realized how helpful those throw up bags I grabbed were!

The ride home was awful, but we stopped and got Chick-Fil-A for later and I went home and went to bed. My first few meals were hard to get down and some came back up too easily, but all in all I slept most of the time.

After 4 days though I expect to be back up and running, but no dice! I am still dealing with clogged pipes and nauseousness, dizzyiness and hurting ears. I think this is another test from God. So patiently I wait and watch the world spin!