I'm home (came home yesterday) - and feeling like I've been run over by a big old bus!!! The pain in my hip and leg is now gone, but the rest of me feels like I'm in a vise and it's being slowly tightened. It's just muscle (all over) and incision pain, but right now it's wicked. Guess I'll have my DIL get that prescription for pain meds filled that I said yesterday that I didn't need. I know it will get better with each passing day, and I'm just so glad to be out of the hospital. Absolutely wonderful doc, but the hospital staff and service and care sucks. I guess that's what you get with the huge teaching hospitals, as compared to the smaller community hospitals. That's been my past experience anyway and it hasn't changed.

So now I'm on the road back and hoping that it isn't too long a journey. I'll just take it a little bit each day until I'm where I should be. I don't go back for my first post-op visit till 12/28, and I'm not allowed a shower since I can't get the incision area wet. Isn't that lovely??? I can take cat baths, but I need to figure how to wash my hair since I can't bend over to even wash it in the sink. Maybe the dry shampoo??? At least I have short hair so It's not as much of an issue that long hair would be.

So again - thanks for all of the prayers and good wishes. Can you keep them coming for a while please?

And thanks to Maggie, Gretchen and Tracey for the get well and Christmas cards. I'm so glad to see that Pinot has a new Mousie friend in time for the holidays. And Tracey - love that Kitty Tree!