The Healing Process

Now that the tests are completed my body has a chance to recover from all the poking, prodding, slicing and dicing. I do not have much of an appetite and when I do eat the food goes stright through me. My bowels are irritated from all the medications and the probing. It will take them time to settle back down. My skin has become blistered from all the tape that I have had put on me and although I am not to remove the dressings for 5 days I could no longer stand the intense itching from the tape. I remove the tape and the dressings over the port only to discover a much larger blister. My sister offers to take me to the doctor to get checked out. The doctor removes all the tape and the steri strips from my incisions and wraps me in gauze. The gauze will then be taped to itself to hold it in place. She checks to see if any information has come back on the bone marrow biopsies. Still no word and so we wait. Each day I am feeling a little bit better. The soreness from the surgical sites is going away. The itching has subsided since the tape has been removed. My bowels are calming down. I still have the blisters but they do not hurt or itch. I am alive, the sun is shining, I have multiple prayers being offered on my behalf, I am beginging to feel better and most of all I have the love and support of my family. I am truly blessed.