I mentioned in my last post, talking about post surgical recovery that feeling the cold was a nice thing, and in fact a welcome experience after so long. I have previously spoken about how I had many symptoms that were plaguing my everyday life and were both causing me to feel self conscious  but were just generally unpleasant.

I also mentioned that the doctors and surgeon were positive that once the surgery was done, these symptoms would most likely start to reduce, but I was very pleasantly surprised to find out how quickly many of these symptoms were just vanishing within days of surgery.

The first thing that I noticed that had gone was my heart rate was no longer so intensely fast. I wasn’t having dizzy spells and I wasn’t having hot flushes either. This was immediate, and I couldn’t believe how different I felt. How I had put up with this feeling for such a lon time and it had become normal, now just seems unbelievable.

My moon face and adrenal belly, despite being swollen from surgery were noticeably improved within days of surgery. My skin too, previously oily and acne prone had started to change, these changes were day by day and continued for a few weeks after surgery until my hormones were balanced a little more and my body was able to recover from surgery.

It wasn’t until I got to go outside for the first time that I felt the difference in my overall temperature, whilst I wasn’t having the hot flushes anymore, hospitals are hot so I was warm all the time anyway so going outside and feeling the cold was just amazing, even up until my surgery I was wearing shorts and t-shirts, in October!

It made me, and my family who were with me in hospital how truly delicate the hormonal balance was and that a slight change in anything has a huge impact on everything else in the body.

Every day in hospital was hard, but every day I got a little stronger, could do a little more, could walk a little further, and finally, 11 days after surgery, once my pain was under control, I was a little more mobile, I was given the best news imaginable, I could go home!!

To my own bed, to quiet, to my animals!! I was so happy. The night I was discharged we stayed for one final night in the accommodation  my mum and partner had been in, they had to swap to another  place because I was in hospital for a little longer than anticipated but it was a nice place. Once we got in, and  I had some food I went to bed, and truly, that might just  be the best nights sleep I have ever had. It was perfect, absolute  darkness  and peace and quiet.

The following day was the journey home, every tiny bump in the car was pretty uncomfortable, but I just kept telling myself soon, I would be back home, in my own space, and that it would be much better then.