Road to Recovery: Day 2 and 3 Post-Op

I should've expected recovery wasn't going to be as nice as Day 1 appeared to be.

Day 2/3 were a lot more painful. I was not up and walking as much, and I am now reliant on my crutches to get around. I was on my pain meds every 4 hours on Day 2 and was changing my ice every 4 hours as well. It was pretty much in and out of sleep, with very little to eat the entire day. When I got up to eat dinner, I thought I was good enough to eat at the table with my family but 2 bites in I had to rush back to the couch and turned into a very sick, pale ghost.

After I started to get my color back, my mom took off my ace bandages to reveal my incisions - a process that still seemed too much for my stomach to handle. It was cool to see, but my legs literally look like a truck ran them over. Both legs are all bruised up and down, and my feet are swollen, making my legs extremely painful. Aside from that pain, like I said, I have been extremely nauseous the past 2 days, and get very light-headed when I sit or stand up - all from the pain meds I had taken like candy on Day 2. So I have been relishing in my sleep, as that is the only time I actually feel okay. Since I am now off of oxycodone, I am just taking tylenol for my pain - although it doesn't do too much. I also take a baby asprin every morning, per doctors orders. I just feel a lot of pressure in my legs, right one is worse than my left, but they look like they are healing really well.

As of now, the only thing I can't stand is the nausea, because that feeling is just altogether uncomfortable, but it should wear off sooner than later because I have stopped the pain meds, so now my body is just getting adjusted to healing without them. Ice, powerade, water, tylenol, and sleep continue to be my best friends!

Starting to remove the ace bandages - right leg