I had a whole different post in mind today, but then realized it needs to wait until next week. Oops!
So what does that leave me today? Very little!
What nursing related thing have I learned? I learn nothing when I'm not nursing. Well, this week, anyway. I have had some evolution as a person, and a patient. But nursing? Nada.
As a patient approaching 6 weeks post op from spinal fusion, I have learned...
...that the torso I see from the side in the mirror doesn't look like mine. My lordosis is gone.
...I am thankful to have cut my med list down so much.
...being really skinny means my hardware presses against my skin and incision site when I bend. I really hoped this would stop by now.
...I never knew how much I relied on pain to be the friend who cautioned me to hold back. I've felt anxiety over losing the pain.
...^^^^ that??? It's crazy.
...I CAN SLEEP ON MY BELLY!!!!!!!!
...I'm EXTREMELY bad at unknown. My post op appt this week will show whether I am fusing at all yet. I just want to know.
...the hardest lesson is this mountain of defeat I'm feeling after such a big few months. I'm seeing pics of graduation, celebrations of employment, and worthy bragging moments on my facebook historical posts. I felt like life was hard then, I celebrated something hopefully becoming easier. It didn't though.
I've lost my muchness, guys. Lots of it.
Bonus:
...it comforts me to know my LEO hubs and his coworkers have devised an apocalypse plan. I also just realized being nurses makes us all valuable (like, save the nurse, kill that guy instead, valuable).
So what have you learned? (And please, if you can, bring it back to nursey since I couldn't! (Sorry, mods!) We need to stay yellow.)
Thanks! I searched but it didn't pop up. Next time I'll be less lazy and find which date to put in the search box with WILTW
Another thing you can do is go to my profile and look through my posts. Even when I don't do the OP, I try to jump in early to say thank you to the person who did start the thread.
Each week's WILTW goes up on the weekend, typically on Saturday. This week was started on Sunday so that it would be on the exact anniversary date.
If ever you'd like to start one of the WILTWs, get in touch! I've been on a leave of absence for back surgery and I have seriously struggled making OPs the last 3 months!
LadyFree28, BSN, LPN, RN
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There's a new thread...
https://allnurses.com/general-nursing-discussion/5-29-this-1054166.html