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2025-06-23 05:00:56

Drowsy, woozy, silly brain…

As I start writing this, it’s 16/06. Three days since my surgery. I went into the hospital early Friday morning, and I got out late Saturday afternoon. That was so fast and unexpected. It brought some challenges with it, as some help I thought I’d taken care off, apparently had been denied. So now, I have to rely more on neighbors. And I hate asking them for help too much, that’s why I tried to get the original help through the hospital. So yeah, that was a bummer…

The night in the hospital, my blood pressure was annoyingly low. I had an IV for that, and they supported me when I had to go to the loo. I had lost one liter of blood during the surgery, so then it’s only normal that the pressure is down a bit. But, slowly, during the night, my pressure came back a bit. I was doing well enough for them to feel confident to send me home later that day so… 😊 But, of course, that didn’t mean that all was back to normal.

But, it was good enough to be back home. I have my own blood pressure meter, so I am keeping an eye out on my values. But the thing I struggle most with now, is my brain still feeling rather woozy. Like I am too tired to do anything. Like I had too much to drink and I am slowly recovering from that. I know it’s only natural after a surgery like this, but I can’t really recall having it this long after a surgery.

Maybe it’s the weather as well, as we’d been having some rather warm days. Plus, my usual routine has been thrown overboard as well. I don’t get the sleep that I normally would get. And I doze off from time to time, when I am relaxing a bit with some telly. All pretty normal after a big surgery, but still… It just annoys me.

As my body is doing rather well, my brain wants to be a-OK as well too. But, it is taking its time. And, of course, my ADHD wants to keep up. It wants me to be healed within a few days, so that things can “go back to normal”, even though realistic me knows that the recovery time is set to 6 weeks. And, even though I may feel better, I need to follow the guidelines. I should not rush and risk to injure myself, or damage the good work that the surgeon has done on me.

I guess it’s also part of me “wanting to relax”. I like to game, I like to read, I like to write… But you need some decent concentration for those things to properly work out. I have been writing, for my blog and on Mastodon, but I know I’ve been making silly mistakes. And it would not surprise me if this post has some mistakes that I have missed while I went over it before scheduling it.

I know I am taking more meds now than I was before the surgery. I need to take blood thinners, so I won’t be at risk for thrombosis. They seem to elevate my heartrate a bit, which also can cause my head to feel a bit more woozy. I’ve been monitoring my blood pressure as well, as it was a tad low when I got released from the hospital. But those numbers have since increased to better values now. It’s just the higher heartrate that “catches my attention” from time to time.

It’s so silly, because I know there are 6 weeks of recovery time. But, knowing now that I can start physio earlier with this kind of cup, knowing that I can use the hip more than I could after my previous surgeries. It gives me some kind of weird hope. Like, I could get better in way less than those 6 weeks. But I know that this isn’t the case. It’s just a new experience for me and I am struggling a bit with adjusting to it. If that makes any sense… 🤔

I know that, by the time this post will go live, my brain will (hopefully, at least) have recovered from the bits and bops that it recently endured. I just wanted to write a bit of how I am experiencing it now, just days after the surgery.

All in all, the recovery (so far) hasn’t been too bad. I just need to mind my blood pressure and my heart rate. Although the pressure seems to have improved a lot since I got discharged from the hospital, the heart rate remains rather high for what I am used to.

To be continued…

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