What No One Told You About Fibroid Surgery Recovery Time

Uterine Fibroids Treatment - today's podcast will continue from the first 3 days of my hospital stay where I spoke about my fibroid removal surgery experience.  This podcast I will cover the last 3 days of my hospital stay following the uterine fibroid treatment. Day 4 Hello ladies. It's day four. Well, today was a very interestingly tough day, for me, at least. The day started off with a visit from the physiotherapist. Although, they normally don't do physiotherapy visit for people who had a Myomectomy as their uterine fibroids treatment. My Gynecologist specifically ordered me, probably because of my past history with my pelvic floor muscle, but anyway. She came to me, went through a few things and then we had to do the climbing of stairs. Because she wanted to show me the technique of how to climb stairs when I get home because I have stairs in my house. Anyway, today I climbed two flights of stairs and when I got up, I was like, "Okay, how do I get back down?" Interestingly enough getting back down was harder than going up, which I thought would have been the other way around. Anyway, it was very helpful and very useful. She also gave me a leaflet on pelvic floor exercises, something I will address in another podcast for those who are interested. Next up was an echocardiogram. Yep, as soon as I got back to the room there was someone waiting for me to go to get an echo scan done. Went and got that done, and then I also had to get a heart rate monitor installed, I guess, is the word, or attached to my body for 24-hour monitoring timeframe. That, again, was a very interesting. Finally, while I actually was there, after getting my heart monitor scan, sorry, my heart monitor device installed, or attached to my body, I was waiting for the porter to bring me back to my room. I was given my patient chart, which I thought was an interesting read all together. Of course, some of the things I would have no idea what's happening in there, others I did. When I finally got back to my room, I took a few pictures before they took the chart away. If ever you get a chance to look at your patient chart, please do. It gives you a better insight as to what the doctors probably don't tell you in full detail, like the anaesthetic use, the exact start and end times of the procedure, the amount of blood that you lost, the results of all your blood tests, lots, and lots of information inside of that patient chart. Okay. Like I mentioned yesterday, I didn't have any appetite today, although lunch, I believe, was lovely. Anyway, when I got back to my room before I even jump to lunch, I had my breakfast, and I had to address the issue of still no bowel movement. A lot of people think that you should get a bowel movement a few days after, a few weeks later. My doctor, my consultant surgeon, wanted to get it going before I leave. I suggested, "Give me some prune juice," because I prefer natural ways of doing things as opposed to using meds. So I decided to try the prune juice first. Actually, while eating breakfast, like I mentioned, everyone in the hospital here partly gets blood thinners injection. So I got that done while having my breakfast like I had every other day. That made me feel a little bit upset and before I knew it, I had an unexpected increase in my body temperature. Excuse me. So I was given Paracetamol to bring it down. I'm sorry for the sniffles, but somehow I have runny nose today. So it seems like it's backward instead of forwards, but anyway. They checked again this evening, and it's high again, so I don't know what's going on, but it looks like I'm not going home tomorrow like I originally thought. Anyway, that aside, I struggled with the prune juice,