Post operative query

[liz2mac]

Hi all, have any of the rest of you found that its taken you longer than you expected to get over an operation? I had a parathyroid gland taken out last thursday and fully expected to be almost back to "normal" by now. However, my cough (you know the one, the ever present friend) has made the recovery from the post operative sore throat really slow.
My brain seems to have gone on a permanent holiday and all in all I'm truly fred up. Got any cheering ideas for me?
Liz

[slf]

Hi Liz
Sorry the post op blues are getting you down,but it's good you're over it at least,and back to a flourishing forum with plenty of bright new members,and our facebook 'like' count is rising. The topics on this forum are so wide now,PID is certainly a massive and very tech subject,but we all suffer from certain common problems so it's good that ukpips is the home for comfort and help.
My message is that you and the trustees have set the ball rolling for good
take care and rest
Steve

[glowing]

Hi Liz. Oh dear poor you. It's rotten for you feeling so low but I do hope you feel lots better very soon. Just sorry I can't do anything other than send you lots of get well wishes.
Glowing

[liz2mac]

Thank you both. One of my biggest frustrations has been my not being able to get on with UKPIPS work, but hopefully I'll be up and running pdq! Glowing, you don't know how much your good wishes mean to me, not being isolated anymore makes it so much easier to bear!
liz

[mali42]

Hi Liz
I had a few ops a couple of years ago and it took ages to get back to normal,

At least your brain will come back from its holiday mine is on one permenantly.

Treat yourself to something you wouldn't normally have.
Malcolm

[liziJ]

Oh Liz you poor thing - bad enough to have to go through surgery without this miserable fight back to normality. So you want something to cheer you up? How about this:

When PiA declined and then folded I felt incredibly sad and anxious. So I contacted my immuno clinic to ask if they had any ideas as to how I could be involved in forming a new patient group - and they told me someone had already started. You have no idea how happy and reassured I felt to find you'd taken the helm - and how impressed I've been by everything you'd already achieved. Liz, you need to know how grateful I am for your incredibly hard work; for the endless hours and limitless energy you seem to be putting into UKPIPS despite health and family problems to contend with. You've provided hope and reassurance for us, and have brought so many of us together already.

If that doesn't cheer you up a bit I recommend chocolate.

Lizi xx

[liz2mac]

Oh thank you so much. I don't know if you realise how much all of your support means to me and how its helping me to get back on my feet.
I'm eyeing up the remains of easter eggs as well though! lol.
Liz

[gilliem]

Hi Liz. People without PID are often warned that anaesthetic takes 6 months to really get over, so I think we're allowed to vector in a bit longer, don't you? I know that's terribly frustrating, but it's true. I wish you a speedy recovery.
Best wishes,
Gillie.

[liz2mac]

Gillie,
Thanks for that. I'm very hard on myself I know and John (husband) keeps telling me its the anaesthetic, so now you've said ity as well I'll let myself believe it! I'm so frustrtated though as there is so much work I want to get on with for UKPIPS and I am beinf SO slow! Had a good meeting on Monday though which should prove very helpful to those of us with bronchiectasis. Very [pleased with that. (more in the newsletter when we get it out)
Liz

[john]

hi liz,
i didn't have an actual operation for my bleeding, a sort of investigation with a repair procedure, but the experience has totally knocked me over, and i'm finding it really hard to get back my life.
everyone says let it take the time it needs, but i think that most of us are impatient and don't understand that we are "damaged" by hospital stays for whatever reason.
the gastro consultant told us that we go into hospital for tests, ops and observation, then we go home to get better. TRUE WORDS!
get fully well soon
john