Vlog | Preparing for Surgery - My Myomectomy Experience

[Music] good morning everyone it's Sunday and it's about 9:30 it's Easter Sunday as a matter of fact I'm happy Easter I'm on my way to Orangetheory to exercise I will be attending church later and my family will be coming over later for dinner and honestly by attending I will be attending it online which is a whole other story and I'm vlogging right now because I'm a couple days just before my surgery and my intention was kind of like vlog the process of all of that and my experience and so my experience right now these past two days yesterday and today I just have this feeling of an anxiousness like I want to cry but I'm not quite sure what it is I want to cry about I don't know if I want to cry because I feel like I have a lot of things to do or I want to cry because I don't know what to expect or I want to cry because I'm scared or I want to cry because I'm not looking forward to the recovery I'm just not sure like I'm not sure what the source of it is I do know that I something just felt like there I do know that I have a lot of anxiety so I'm assuming that's what that feeling is about which is why I'm going to Orangetheory right now in the hopes that when I finish this class that feeling of anxiety will dissipate some of what you see in the back is giving me anxiety to this these are all my picture books in my car I think what it is is that everything feels like it's out of place and disorganized and I feel like I only have a very short period of time to get them organized because I don't want to be trying to recuperate laying on the couch looking and looking at what I perceived to be a mess in my house or thinking about what I perceive to be messes in different places that's the truth and so if these are not organized and put away somewhere by the time my surgery comes and they're just haphazardly sitting somewhere that is going to cause me to be anxious while I'm recovering and that's a personality trait that I need to try and get over that need to have everything in the same place but that's hard so I I'm just feeling anxious like that's the one word I didn't think to describe it about a lot of things like I'm anxious about having a surgery about being in a hospital about how long am I gonna be in a hospital what's gonna happen after get out of hospital how long am I going to be in pain how long will I be like just useless in the terms that I'll have to display around is he really going to be two weeks will I be able to exercise what will I be eating bloody eating healthy will I be gaining weight like it just all this stuff will I be able to get everything done that I need to get done by the time my surgery's taking care of like a few things I need to finish bringing an intern and she's a great book I have a video that I need to film a couple videos that I need to know actually I do need to film them because people are depending on me for that all right I just got back from that workout it was an endurance workout I wish I had stats for you but I forgot my little wristband that tells me how many calories I burned and how many points I got I guess this person is not going to come out so I don't have that but it was a lot of running a lot of rowing so I think where I left off with my little fibroids fairytale his we found out I had fibroids the doctor that is going to be performing my surgery told me that really it was up to me at that time I could have them removed I could just monitor them so it was up to me and so I chose to just monitor them because I wasn't having that much discomfort from them with the exception of just feeling like pressure and not even the kind of person that made me feel like I'd use the bathroom all the time it's just the best way I can describe it it just always feels like something's in my abdominal area so that's been what I've been doing for a few years and then this past year I ended up participating on a game show called mental samurai that will be ere my episode will be airing on April 30th and you should see this before then so make sure to check it out it's Tuesday nights 9 o'clock on Fox and as a part of that I had to get medical clearance and so I had to have a doctor's exam by like their medical person and he was just doing like a general exam and then he was like pressing on my stomach and he kept looking he had this look on his face like I was looking at his face as he was doing it and he just looked really perplexed and then he looks like uncomfortable like he was trying to figure out a way to say something and for whatever reason I just knew and I said I stopped him I said I'm not pregnant I have fibroids and so he was like oh okay so I I think what he thought was I was pregnant and I didn't know I was pregnant he was going to be the one to tell me I think you're pregnant and you therefore can't participate on this game show but after I told him that he was just kind of like why haven't you had these removed and his wife was there because she was a medical person also she was like assisting and she kind of told me her story is like yeah yeah I mean these are pretty significant you're probably like the equivalent of being 15 weeks pregnant you should really look into it and so after that I just really thought like maybe I should be looking into this if a doctor is like to the point where he's thinking that I'm pregnant and just kind of surprised by it so I decided to go back to my doctor get checked and when I got checked they had grown slightly and I decided to have the surgery and I will say that first doctor's appointment where I initially was told okay you have five boys this is what you can do he did tell me that if I ever got to the point where I wanted to have them removed I would not be able to have like any sort of laparoscopic procedure because of the location of them the size of some of them and the size and I think maybe the amount I'm not sure but I just knew that if I were ever to decide to do that I would not have be able to have a laparoscopic procedure it would have to be a full-blown incision and then there's another procedure where you can have them shrunken down that's less invasive but if you have that procedure and I can't remember what it's called I want to say and little ism is a part of the word but if you have that procedure where they go in and like shrink them down you have to be at a place for you either done having kids or you do not want to have kids and I told them despite the fact that I'm older I'm just not ready to completely shut that door of my life so I went ahead and said I'll have surgery and what I made that decision he was like yeah it's time like you don't want them to get be bigger [Music] or travel or cause any other problems so here we are they gave me my surgery data I did not think the native my surgery so they told me after having to wait for almost two months to find out when the surgery date would be that your surgery will be April the 24th and then we just kind of went from there so I mean it worked out in terms of having subs the long-term sub I'd prefer to have it happen at the end of the year as opposed to right in the middle of the year so that all worked out and all that so that's the back story of my surgery which leads me to today feeling anxious and just wanting to have things organized and in place so that I'm not having to think about that while I'm trying to recover so my plan today is I'm actually on my way to target to get some things I need like make sure I've water sorry like this notice acnes my laundry away get my last minute our little random pieces of braiding that I need to get done done I need to finish putting in some math plans for my sub as I told her I would and I'm just gonna try and relax tomorrow I have some errands I need to do I have a couple of meetings that I need to go to just around personal use and then on Tuesday up my pre-op appointment at that point I guess I'll find out what time my surgery is on Wednesday I have surgery and from there so that's where I'm at I might check in with you later on today but I'm just my goal is to kind of have this vlog be reflective of how I feel going into it I don't know if I'll be vlogging afterwards have no clue what I'm gonna feel like but it but at some point I will obviously check in after the surgery so this kind of sort of says what my mind frame or state of mind was going into it so do you think's just about a lot of things so that's it I'm gonna go to Target get what I need and I'll talk to you guys later [Music] good evening it's almost 11:15 way past the time that I need to be in bed because I am going to a 5:00 a.m. Orangetheory class tomorrow but in the name of sharing my journey with this surgery I wanted to check in and close up this day so the last thing I recorded I think was me putting my laundry away so I have successfully put all my laundry away I watched the Easter service online while I was doing that my parents came over we had dinner a little dessert I got some random grading done that I needed to get done got those entered into the computer cleaning my closet up because that was a hot mess got all my picture books out of my car and that is pretty much it like got all my bedding washed and everything I just I feel like I think the term is nesting I feel like that's what I'm doing I like I just want everything to be freshly washed cleaned or whatever so I'm getting ready to see the genesis downstairs I just finished taking a shower and then I need to go to bed because I need to wake up at 4:15 to go to this class I need to go to the early class tomorrow I have some things I need to do and take care of in the morning pretty early so I think tomorrow is my last 5 a.m. class for a long time so that's good but I just wanted to check in to say good night I will check in with you guys at some point tomorrow after I finish all my early morning stuff but um yeah so still feeling a little anxious not quite as anxious Oh after Orangetheory I was going to go to Target but target was closed because the it's Easter so I didn't get any of that done so that's on my list of things to do tomorrow so I need to make a list of what I need from Target and what I need to do before I go to bed and then I'll be ready for it tomorrow so good night see you there hi guys let me at the TV so that you can hear me um it's Monday um hold on a second here even though the TV's on me I just don't want it on on the news we're really struggling let's try that a third time okay it's Monday at 6:45 I have been up since 4:15 I went to Orangetheory and after that I came home I got dressed I handled the business I needed to handle earlier this morning and then the highlight of the day was I did actually get to go visit the middle school that I will be at next year I met with the principal who I I don't think we've it I think we've met but never really conversate it the assistant principal who I know pretty well oh my gosh Genesis Genesis Genesis Jenny who I know pretty well and um one of the assistant principals I should say the other one was busy so I didn't really get to talk to her I an I got to sit in some eighth grade classes I just reached out to the principal as soon as I found out what grade level was gonna teach and just asked if I could spend some time before I go out on leave just I just want it to be in some eighth grade classrooms just to get a feel just to see what they look like how big they are and they are massive and I had a really good time I saw a total of three different English are three different language arts social studies classes and met quite a few members of the team and I just have to say just the couple hours that I was there was just so refreshing to me I just felt like I can't even describe it I just felt like I belong there I felt like I was meant to be there I just felt very positive there all the team members that I met were just so friendly and open and welcoming I just got a really good bye from all of them I felt like we were all going to mesh well I met my teammate so I don't remember exactly how many teachers are on the eighth-grade team but I don't know if it works this way in every district or every state but where I work you teach two subjects as a middle school teacher you're either teaching math and science or you're teaching social studies and language arts so I'm the social studies and language arts teacher and I met my switch partner which is the person that teaches math and science and I think her and I are gonna get along really well she has some of my former fifth grade students and I talked to her very briefly today because she was busy and she told me that she's had numerous or I won't I don't numerous sounds very dramatic multiple students over the course of the past few years tell her that she reminds them of me so I was like okay that sounds like we have very similar styles so that'll be cool I saw my classroom and it just felt good it just felt right if I were to be honest the last two years have just been challenging to me in different ways I never fully felt like I was in the right place at the school I was that even though I had friends and met some great people and met some great families and all of that there was always something that just felt like it was missing for me and I couldn't put my finger on it and it could just be that I was meant to be at the middle school level already or that this school was where I meant to be and it could be because this school reminds me a lot of the school that I had I came from the school that I came from before feeds into this middle school which leads to the other part of the day that was great I got to see so many of my former students and to just be comforted by the fact that they are now eighth graders and they were still excited to see me and they came up and gave me hugs both some of the girls that I had and some of the boys it just really means a lot to me because that means that they had enough of a connection with the heat with me the year that I had them that they wanted to like come and say hi and especially there was a student that I had who I mean he was challenging behaviorally wise but he was one of those kids that although he was a challenge behaviorally he really I really feel like he really wanted to do well and be good and be liked and just every now and then he would just be a little off and so I got to see him and he was happy to see me and I you know I just had like the briefest of conversations with him but even in those couple minutes I was just so fulfilled so I'm just excited I almost wish school was starting tomorrow because that's how excited that I am but what I saw the feeling that I got around my teammates and my switch partner and all of that so I did that for a couple hours then I went to Liza's school because one of her colleagues was nice enough to prepare some meals for me while I'm out on surgery I visited what Liza for a minute met some of her students watched a very entertaining geology lesson that was put on by her principal then I came home I filmed a video I needed to film then I went to target then I came home the first time that I ate today was at about 4:30 and I wasn't even starving I think I was just so busy that I didn't have time to eat or think about the fact that I hadn't eaten and um so that happened and then while I was eating I realized I totally forgot I had a massage appointment today I had a 90 minute massage scheduled and I forgot luckily they're not charging a no-show fee then I went upstairs and edited the video that I filmed because I need to get that done before my surgery and um Here I am at 6:45 I need to go back out and get some popsicle sticks because I need to drop some supplies off to Ginny so that she can give it to my long-term son so I'm gonna do that and then I'm gonna come home and take a shower and just work on some stuff that I need to do some last minute I still have some greeting I need to create the writing portion of the last Wonders assessment I need to adjust my plans for the long-term sub and hopefully tomorrow will feel less hectic I mean I really just feel hectic right now just going down the list of tasks that I need to complete I haven't really had time to breathe I I don't even know what I was trying to say just now so in terms of surgery I have my free op appointment tomorrow at about 10:20 at which time I'm assuming I'm going to be told what time the surgery is going to be scheduled for that's as far as I know I I don't know guys so I think I think I'm just kind of trying not to think about the actual second I'm having surgery and I'm very well distracted by all the other things I have to do but I feel like when Wednesday comes my I'm gonna be feeling real nervous or even tomorrow when he talks to me about like the logistics of everything so that's where I'm at I went to Target and used to give card that was given to me by one of my students I got some really cute school supplies to kind of start taking some notes I know on some previous vlogs I think last week and the week before I referenced making these videos for picture books I feel like I'm going to scrap them and redo them because now I think what I would like to do is be a little bit more meticulous about what books I share with you in the sense that I'd like to share with you how I've used them in elementary and some specific and defiant thoughts with how I'm going to use them in middle school now that I have like an overview of the units of study that occur in eighth grade so with that being said I'm going to go ahead and shut this portion of the vlog down for today I'm gonna go to Target or no I think I have to go to Michael's to get some popsicle sticks and then I need to come home and just continue to work on things I need to do so that's it that's my Monday I guess I'll give you a dog shot just cuz I don't know what else to do and you guys like to see them that's Riley some of you have asked why I have two dogs this is actually my mom's dog Riley Riley Riley there he is he's very sweet he's a little bit of a bully then their is this Jenny Jenny Genesis well she's being a diva that's what she does best so there they are anyway um good night I will check in with you at some point tomorrow and then we'll go from here so alright it is about noon I am driving back from my pre-op appointment the whole process took about an hour and a half the first set was just for the first part of it was just getting an exam by the doctor he called my fibroid situation impressive because I guess they he feels like they're growing just by like that quick exam and that they've like moved in position and just said I must be having a hard time fitting in my clothes well that may be true or I may just have acclimated to a larger size I just told him that I've just generally felt just heavier so he just kind of talked about the fact that this is a good thing that we're doing it and then I after the exam I met with him in the office he gave me just a quick rundown of what to expect the surgery should take about two hours I have a check-in time of 5:30 in the morning but I think the procedure isn't scheduled until 7 o'clock in the morning I'm apparently his first patient of the day I can do that some of the things I was anxious about is like will I have a catheter that will be removed will I be able to take a shower I could take a shower from what he said will I be able to go downstairs because my mom wanted me to stay in my room the whole time and I just feel like that's going to cause me to be more depressed or more anxious I can go up and down the stairs but like once a day which is perfectly fine what else was I worried about as far as exercising I can probably like after the first month or so he basically said the recovery the people that bounce back pretty well are the people that are not afraid to like move he did say that initially your first movement afterwards are going to be like you're gonna feel very like concern because it's gonna feel like spasms and he said you'd really be surprised how many functions you are how many things you do that involve abdominal muscles so he's like the more you're willing to move and kind of just try to react le'me your abdominal muscles to moving the better but if you just kind of sit around and lace a bow and don't do too much moving and that just kind of extends your recovery so that was good to know no driving for two weeks like I've said I could be a passenger if I feel up to it but definitely no DRI driving no housework all of that the recovery should be six to eight weeks in total which I already knew and then I left him went to sign some paperwork now this paperwork that I have to sign it this is the part that gives me anxiety and like really kind of put me in a state and I'm trying to keep myself out of that state it's just basically a forms of technology that if worse came to worse and there was like too much bleeding going on and the only way to save my life was hysterectomy that I'm giving them permission to do that which is sad and gives me anxiety because you know I don't have kids and if that were to happen then that that's the end of that so just to be faced with that like reality and to be reminded that my uterus is like involved and could be affected is a lot and I left that little signing appointment and had to stand around a woman with a newborn baby just to remind me that if something happens you'll never have a baby so that happened I'm just being honest these are the emotions that I've gone through and then I had to go get some lab work done I had to get blood taken which I hate I'm really it's not even the needle I just can't stand the sight of life losing out of my body and then being held in a capsule it just really freaks me out I don't it just it just really disturbs me so I had to turn away while she was doing that I had to give a urine sample I didn't have to they asked me if I could so it sounded like it wasn't necessary but I did and two things about that number one as I finished producing my urine sample there was an older woman there she didn't speak English I'm not sure what country she was from and she just kept like going like this to me as I was like trying to wash my hands and holding my urine Andy and the other hand as I was approaching the sink and I thought she needed help but I think what she was trying to do was ask me for my urine sample so that and take it out and present it as her urine sample I don't know why she didn't look like someone that was you know having a drug issue or was gonna have unclean urine I don't know if she just didn't understand the process or she didn't think she could provide a urine sample but that was a little awkward because I felt bad because it was like an elderly woman and you want to respect your elders but I was like man would no we're not doing that and then the awkwardness I do not like walking in public holding a baggie that contains my urine so I just felt so embarrassed to be standing in a lobby where everybody's doing this so it's not like I'm the only person that's gonna be holding a urine sample but I just like walking around holding my urine sample is so mortifying to me that that happened and then that and that I left and so now I'm here right now I'm on my way to the district office to meet with the person to kind of make sure I know what forms need to be submitted for disability because they give you an off work letter but they only give it to you they give you a letter of intent which I got today and then they give you an off work release or letter the day of your surgery because I guess people have had those given to them earlier and then ended up not having the surgery and then ended up getting disability pay even though they were never really off work so some of the things they were referencing are not things that I've heard from my district or my disability rep so I just need to make sure I know what to do so I'm going there to meet with a person before she leaves for the day and then I'm gonna try my hardest to just relax and enjoy the rest of the day I do have some stuff I need to do I do need to film a video for a collaboration and there's a couple other things I feel like I need to do I have an appointment at 3:00 but before all that I need to eat I haven't even eaten yet which is not good so that was my pre-op appointment so I will check in with you guys at some point later on and then after that I'm not really sure what's going to happen because I'll be going into surgery pretty early so I'll check in with you soon hey guys this is what I look like when I go to bed my hair is all wrapped and the scarf and I'm just checking and really quick to be consistent with the purpose of this vlog it's about 10:30 it's way past the time I should be in bed I know that I have been running around crazy trying to get things done today and the good news is I got a lot of major things crossed off my list there was I feel like this is not focused there we go there was a collaboration video that I needed to film edit and schedule I've done that there was another video that I was responsible for doing that I needed to film make sure that was done scheduled I've done that stuff around the house I did I left some notes for a mom because I need her to do some things for me ran an errand that took a long time so the good news is I got everything done that I really feel like I absolutely had to get done the bad news is I've not had a minute to rest and relax which I don't know if that's the best way to go into surgery but I'm getting ready to go to bed I thought I'd show you what I'm doing I am packing just a very quick bag just based on what I was told for my sister I'm bringing this very large Lands End bag that I've had for a long time has my name on it it's way too big but in here let me put the TV on mute hold on a second sorry I felt like I couldn't think so I'm gonna take this lands in bag that is bigger than what I need I just put some pajamas in here which is right here this is a gown from Target I was told that I wanted to get pajamas that wouldn't touch my stomach so I bought a couple gowns from Target about some baby wipes just in case I feel like I need to stay fresh I don't know my wallets in there my house shoes are down there this folder is in there that has the documents that I need for tomorrow so so that is what I'm going to be bringing the other thing that I'm going to be bringing with me I can't really put it in there yet because I need it is I'm going to pack a toiletry bag so we'll just have the basics I'm gonna have this hairbrush moisturizer face wash teeth great toothpaste and a toothbrush and I think that is all that I need I'm going to be optimistic and say I'm only going to be in the hospital for one night so I'm getting ready to take a shower go to bed I'm not even sure what time I should wake up tomorrow so that we're there at time I ate dinner got that done stopped eating as of 10 o'clock I can only have water and I think they want me they want me to drink some apple juice or Gatorade not red Gatorade some Gatorade a couple hours before surgery if possible supposedly that helps with any kind of nausea that I may feel is what I was told so I don't know when I'll talk to you next because tomorrow's the big day and I'm not sure when I'll be coherent enough to talk but this is me the night before surgery you know I'll probably check in in the morning so I'll see you bright and early in the morning in just a few hours [Music] [Applause] [Music] okay it's 4:30 approximately I'm I'm dressed this is what I'm wearing let's do an outfit of the day for surgery I am just wearing this dress because I've been told by people that had something similar done that you don't really want anything touching your stomach so I'm assuming when I leave the hospital I'm gonna be wearing regular clothes so I just put on this dress it's a very comfortable dress that I got from my room mom last year and some flip-flops so I'm wearing a hat because I didn't do my hair and I thought I'd tell you what I'm packing like the final pack so if this is my toiletry bag the only things that I'm bringing excuse the makeup MS or my toothbrush and toothpaste that drives me crazy it's a moisturizer deodorant a little thing a lotion headband a couple of rubber bands and on the other side is on this side here is my hairbrush I'm bringing this container this has all my makeup brushes in it but it's really I'm only bringing this because it has all my eyebrows stuff in there and I at least want to have eyebrows on because Latanya without eyebrows is not cute my phone with the charger got a message from spilling the tea with mrs. Reese or with Reese his 432 and my son won't turn it off speaking of which I have to unlock my phone because I do want the doctor to take pictures of my fibroids because I'd like to see what I've been carrying around so I'm gonna take these things guys down for a second I want to take these things and put them in my bag and I just want to say because they just got another message from one of you on Instagram I said I really appreciate all the support I feel like I have this huge support system out there wishing me well on my surgery I really do appreciate it I'll put this in the bag I am bringing my own pillow and now I'm going to hit this in here I'm gonna go downstairs get a cup of apple juice made and then we're going to be leaving so from this point forward the check-ins may be sporadic they may not exist at all but you will see me at some point I just don't know when so I might blog a little bit on the way there I'm not a hundred percent sure but I will definitely keep you guys post it if I don't see you wish me luck my what am I trying to say I need to check in at five somewhere between 5:00 and 5:30 my surgery is scheduled for about 7:30 in the morning it's gonna take a couple hours I don't know if I said all that and he said I'll be groggy for a while I'm gonna feel quite tired is what he said so I shall see you when I see you hi guys it is Wednesday Wednesday May 1st that's what it is it is about a week since the last time I spoke to you guys and but if you follow me on Instagram you've kind of seen me checking quite a bit through insta stories but for the purpose of this vlog I thought at some point you need to get back on there to close this vlog out and I thought today was the perfect time to do it because I had my surgery exactly one week ago today and today I have my follow-up one of my follow-up appointments where the doctor was just checking my incision to make sure things held well so I thought this would be like a logical to kind of end it and wrap it up so it's after 11 o'clock on Wednesday I'm in my pajamas I just took a shower and I'm just gonna kind of wrap this up and I'm gonna try to try to do it the best that I can so as far as I just start very quickly with recovery recovery has been good I think as good as could be expected I definitely move about extremely slowly because I can't move any faster B I shouldn't be moving any faster just to keep my incision safe in terms of letting it heal properly and just I need to take it easy like that's what they tell you to do and if you have this procedure you will realize like you are moving slow not even by choice but just because your body is telling you to move slowly but aside from just the slow moving and the needing a lot of help from my mom and my brother I feel fine the pain is not great and I could honestly I could have a high tolerance for pain that is very true so I never felt like I'm in a lot of pain it's just an uncomfortable feeling sometimes or an awkward feeling like right now it just feels it feels like I had a surgery like my body is trying to get its bearings again each day the discomfort or what I feel some is a little bit different right now like if I move a certain way it burns because the incision is like in the process of healing I do walk around the house as much as I can per the doctor's orders I only come downstairs once a day so I wake up in the morning I shower my mom has to come up and help me put on this like belly wrap that they gave me I get dressed I get whatever I think I want and I take it downstairs and then I'm downstairs for the day until it's time for me to come up come upstairs and then I try and get up and move about as much as I can but I'm not really doing any housework I'm not cooking or anything like that I've had some wonderful friends that have provided meals for me brought me salads for lunches texted me offered to bring food and then of course my mom has been here to help me with that so Recovery's been fine as far as if you're gonna have this procedure what I would suggest is definitely get yourself some downs so I got this nightgown from Target because someone told me that have some long dresses that you can wear during the day so that you're nothing's touching your incision I know it's TMI but you're not going to want to wear underwear because you don't want anything touching your incision try and drink lots of water the hardest part of recovery is has been me going to bed at night because to be comfortable I almost have to be sitting up a little bit or I can't lay exactly flat and the first few nights I kept getting these really like pounding headaches like migraine headaches and I don't know exactly what they're from I don't know if it's a reaction to the medication which it shouldn't be I don't know if it was a chain reaction of me not laying properly and then my neck is out of place and that's causing a headache but the first couple nights of sleep were not the most comfortable for that reason it's gotten better and so just be aware of that and and I'm swollen like I am definitely swollen I'm almost like I told the doctor I feel fatter now than what I felt like what the fibroids and he's like well you're definitely swollen your body's retaining water and all of that so as far as my doctor's appointment today the incision is healing beautifully he said he suggests that I put on I forget what it was but basically put something on the incision area to treat it to help prevent keloids he said that word and I was like what is that it doesn't sound like anything that I want I think black people are susceptible to it but it's like a like a scarring on your skin so I just put on some aquaphor coz my mom had some thank goodness for that I'm eating normal foods I haven't had any issues I'm able to like use the bathroom normally that's again TMI but this is like an educational vlog for that purpose but so that's been good but I'm just looking forward to feeling like myself again I have to be patient with the recovery process because I'm just used to getting up doing what I want to do when I feel like doing it how I want to do it going up and down the stairs like today was a huge deal because today for the first time and we I've been able to take a shower facing the showerhead because I didn't have to worry about my incision so the difficulties I'm having with recovery are just me having to accept that what you had was in fact major surgery and your body's traumatized and you need to give your body the time and space to heal itself so that's on me but when I met with the doctor today and asked about exercising I'm hoping he wants me to walk as much as I can and even suggested I walk outside and and said it's gonna cause you to feel tired because when I walk to the mailbox a couple days ago which is pretty much just like across the street by the time I came home I was I was exhausted and he's like yeah you're gonna be exhausted but he wants me to kind of push myself a little bit more each day to build up some stamina hopefully by the end of next week I should be able to walk on a treadmill like power walk but I can't really do high-intensity exercising until he gives me that okay so I have another appointment at the end of this month and hopefully by that point I'll be able to go back to Orangetheory but on a modified status so walking on the treadmill instead of running using the Strider instead of rowing and definitely doing modifications in the weight room so I'm hoping for that but he said once the swelling and everything goes down you know you'll see the difference in your stomach he weighed my seven fibroids my little fruit basket then I was carrying around I think I told you guys in the last clip that my sister and I referred to it as a fruit basket because we were talking about the size of the fibroids in terms of like grapefruits apples plums but the size of my little fruit basket was only about a pound which I found amazing cuz I have the pictures and they were bigger than what I expected and so the doctor said it's just not so much the weight as it is the volume like the space it was taking up in my uterus so he was like your uterus went from like this size to that size because they were taking up that much space so all in all I would say if you are at a place where your fibroids are causing you to have any of the symptoms that are uncomfortable and it's consistent whether that be heavy periods which wasn't the case for me or just general just feeling heavy uncomfortable and just you know aesthetically looking at yourself and like knowing that your stomach should not be looking like the stomach of a 20-week pregnant woman then I would recommend the surgery especially if you can do it laparoscopically I couldn't but that is an option it's not as bad as I thought it was going to be I've had great care and advice for my doctor my nurse and the discomfort that I'm feeling right now is temporary so that's it I feel like if I were to give some tips like I said I would definitely give yourself a couple of days before the surgery to just prepare logistics of like getting your house together running last-minute errands whatever it is that you want to wrap up so that you have those two weeks you just so allow yourself to recuperate invest in some gowns or long dresses things that you can be comfortable in and just be patient with the recovery if you're kind of someone that likes to get up and go and just be here and they're everywhere and doing everything you just got except you're not going to be doing that for a while have someone stay with you if you're a single person thank God my mom is here because I have had to rely on her quite a bit and that's it you know you do what you got to do to take care of yourself and that's the point that I got to so I'm going to end the vlog here if you guys have any questions about the process the procedure how I'm feeling please feel free to leave them in the comment section I will do the best I can to answer them and if you found this video helpful if you're thinking about it of course give it a thumbs up subscribe if you haven't already and that's it this point forward the next vlogs and videos that come up will probably be about me just living my life during summer break even though I've started early preparing to make the transition to middle school and all of that so it'll probably just be like a hodgepodge of different things so I hope you enjoyed it again like I said if you did give this video a thumbs up and I will talk to you guys and the next one and I want to say before I and in thank you I've said I don't Instagram but I want to say here thank you thank you thank you to all the people that have checked in prade sinha DM a commented on a picture encouraged me i there's been so many of you that it has been so nice to have that extra layer of support and encouragement through Instagram YouTube I really really appreciate it I appreciate all of you guys and I want you to know that so on that note I am going to say good night I will talk to you in the next video whenever that happens to be and I will see you when I see you so I'll see you this bye guys [Music]

Channel: SmartieStyle

Views: 13,915

Rating: 4.9438877 out of 5

Keywords: vlog, a day in the life, daily vlog, teacher vlog, myomectomy, fibroids, surgery, blog, daily blog

Id: okSN-52gm4o

Length: 45min 34sec (2734 seconds)

Published: Sun May 19 2019