Creative Meanderings

My ramblings and wanderings through life

  • Things are looking up in terms of returning to a “normal” way of life. I’ve been to the doctor again for an ultrasound check. Unfortunately, this revealed there is still some inflammation and liquid in my large intestine from the operation, but she didn’t seem overly worried about it. So, I am on some more meds to help with that and will go for another check up at the end of the month.…

  • Two weeks. It feels like the longest two weeks ever, yet my healing is coming along so nicely that I can see an end to the slow days and movements not too far in the near future. These days, I have been up and about more in the mornings. This is when I get house chores done, and try to create some sort of normal in our dust-filled, mid-construction home. The end of…

  • It’s been just over a week now since O-day. Overall, everything seems good in terms of the healing. I’m still generally off the pain meds, but still taking some arnica montana 30c a few times throughout the day. However, the mood the last couple of days has been less than stellar. Probably, my insides are healing as the pain has been a bit more unpredictable. The gas and bowel movements are still not…

  • This picture pretty much expresses how I have been moving the past week. Tomorrow will be one week post-hysterectomy-operation. Today, at Day 7 (surgery day = Day 1), I feel pretty good, all things considered. It’s the first day that I have taken a mere 5 pellets of 30c arnica montana and nothing else. So, that’s my highlight. Over the weekend, I made sure that I stood up and walked around regularly. The…

  • Well, at the end of my last update just over a month ago, I promised to keep this space informed. Since things happened quickly in between other life activities, I am writing now at home – post operation. First, let me just say to women, who have had c-sections and then needed to care for a newborn, I bow down in so much new respect to you! I mean, my goodness, wtf?! OK,…

  • Some months ago, I was invited to visit Barcelona. At the time, I surprised myself as much as anyone when I said, “Sure!”. Usually, when I say yes to something I regret it later, but I just didn’t think about it this time and when the time got closer, I embraced the potential experience. To also help diffuse my potential anxiety, I asked a friend to join me. Initially, she wasn’t sure if…

  • It’s been a busy week to kick off the new month of May. Every day, I find myself saying that it’s temporary or that in a couple of weeks it will be slower. Yet, I have finally accepted – yes, just today after all these years! – that each day is a game of balance and it is going to be different than the one before or the next one. Consistency is not…

  • Yikes, the time has flown by and April is already almost over. I hardly know how the time has passed, but life is good. I am always in a state of trying to balance all the things I want to do (which is a lot) with what I have to do (which isn’t that much). Then, it’s also about not stressing about not getting that much done in the end. Sometimes, I think…

  • Some years ago, my mom or someone gave me a book about walking on trail as a kind of pilgrimage. I’m not quite sure why it stuck in the back of my mind over the years as I’ve read a lot of books so far in my lifetime. Even though now I cannot remember the title of the book, I recall the idea of it. Then, there came an uptake in the spread…

  • So, back in February when I wrote about my fibroids, I was told to go for an MRI with some unremembered-named injection. Following that, I was also asked to go do my blood tests for any uterine cancer flags. Even with the results of those seemingly OK, my doctor continued to insist that I needed to seriously consider surgery – and the sooner, the better. Due to the language barrier, I’m not ever…

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