I am getting better.....so it seems. I still get tired easy, but am getting around much more. I have been shopping and went to the movies. (We saw "30 Days of Night"...save your $$, not very good).
I still can't lift more than 5 measly pounds, mostly because of the hernia that was repaired. When I do lift or bend down I get pain under my belly button so the doctor said to still take it easy.
I keep busy with little hobbies around the house. I have taken up sewing on a sewing machine. I made some hemmed squares, just some random fabric that I will use as gift wrap. Very earth-friendly because it can re-used by the recipient. :-)
I also made some pretty uneven curtains for our bathroom. Michael says they look great (how sweet of him to spare my feelings) because they look kinda squigly and lop-sided, lol. But they're my first attempt, cost about $1.00 in fabric, and only took me about 2 hours. I'll keep practicing and see if I can't make something cool in the next few weeks.
I am looking forward to my next doctor's visit with my surgeon in Philly the 2nd week of November. He will do an exam and some tests to see if I'm healed up enough to have a much easier, shorter, and much less painful surgery to "restart" my GI tract. The surgeon in Ohio was figuring sometime around 12 weeks post-op which would put me near mid-December.
