Trouble and Turnaround In Dreamland

The up side of this surgery is that I have some down time. I’ve been spending a lot of this downtime with my kids and their puppers. These puppers are Memphis’.

In the process of processing my down time I’ve had restful moments but a terrible time sleeping peacefully. Night terrors are hitting me hard. Since I’m off all my meds I’ve been wondering why this is still happening. As I’ve researched post op night terrors I’m realizing that it most likely a side effect of the anesthesia from the surgery. There are many cases just like mine. Since Ive chosen to stop my pain meds after my 1 week visit in lieu of Tylenol, advil or Motrin, I’m trying to medicate holistically. My friend Shelby suggested many herbs.

Shatavari is a great calming aid and lavender, chamomile, Kava, poppy are great sleep aids. Here are a couple of photos of the herbs I selected that have been helping greatly. In addition to these I’m taking cramp bark for my post op cramping. I’m not a doctor obviously so check with a medical professional before taking any of these as drug interactions can happen depending on which meds are are currently taking.

I’m still taking probiotics and iron supplements daily as well.

I took a photo of my healing belly incisions as well. If you look closely you can see the 4 incisions with the purple glue over them. The surgeon did a great job hiding the scars into my tattoos and I got to keep my uterus tattoo!

My healing has definitely not been linear but I am getting stronger day by day with occasional setbacks. I’m finding that the better I sleep the better I feel from day to day. Last night was my first night of restful, mostly pain free sleep. I was able to finally sleep laying down the entire night.

My baby Memphis and I have been talking about our health journey going forward. We have decided to open up an Only Fans to document that and our adventures in burlesque, fan dancing, health and wellness and general life stuff. I will be sharing bits of this journey with all of you.