How To Keep Busy While Recovering: Zzzzzzzzzz......

Let's face reality...sometimes when you are recovering from surgery, you just don't feel like much of doing anything.  Not even getting out of bed and socializing with your own loved ones :(

When I first came home, I slept a lot.  Like more than I thought was humanly possible. I was on a ton of medicines, some of which had drowsiness as a side effect.  Couple that with my body needing the extra rest to mend itself, and I was keeping the hours of a newborn those first couple of weeks.

I remember feeling angry with myself for being so tired, especially after the first month or so, when I started weening off the heavy drugs.  I'd get so frustrated that I didn't have the energy that I thought I should have.  But my husband would remind me that my body was healing and that it was okay to have the extra rest.

After going to physical therapy, I would want to come home and take a nap...and sometimes I did!  Physical excursion definitely does me in.  It was worse immediately after surgery, but even now there are days that I'll stay in bed...maybe it's once or twice a week now.  I just don't yet have the endurance that I had before surgery.

I still get frustrated every now and then, but for the most part I just accept that some days I just need a little more battery recharging time than others.  It's okay.  Healing takes a lot of energy and I need to listen to my body so that I can get better.

Are you one of those people who welcomes the down time, or do you despise having to recharge every now and then?

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This is my last A to Z post of 2014!  For a click-able list of all 26 How to Keep Busy While Recovering posts, click here.  Thanks for everyone who has stopped to visit my blog over the past month during this challenge.  I hope to see you all around!