Two giant steps back

Sep 19, 2014

This week I started a return to work program. Rather than full time hours, I had arranged to work 12:30-5:30 for the week. Monday was a bit of a mess. I ended up having abdominal spasms and fell asleep as soon as I walked in the door and took some pain meds. Tuesday I took some over the counter Tylenol throughout the day and it was okay, so I tried the same thing for Wednesday. Thursday I was just feeling off. Tired, worn out, just out of sorts, but I still went in to work, assuming that it was normal end-of-week drain. By 1pm I was in the lunchroom with an ice pack trying to get things to calm down. By 1:30 I was home and back onto the prescription pain meds. I didn’t sleep that night and had muscle spasms basically from my pelvic bone into my chest all night.
Today I tried to get into my GP but she was booked, so I went to the hospital. I’m grateful I did go, although it made for a long 6 hours. There was significant concern that I had developed a blood clot in my lung and that was part of the reason for the pain when I would breathe deep. It was a whack of testing, but I came out cleared for that, I just had re-injured my surgical site and I’m back on rest, meds and ice packs for a while.

I am also on day 19 of a weight loss stall. I’m also on day 19 of my birth control. I don’t use it for contraception, but for migraine prevention, so I think I’m going to stop taking it. I’m not happy with the stall and after the clot scare today, I’m not happy with the increased risk of clotting.

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