A week already??!!!!

I can't believe it's already been a week since surgery.  Time has flown by.  I know I've slept most of my week away, but still, It's going so fast. 

The heartburn has been bothering me sooooo badly.  It hurt all day long yesterday.  The medicine the clinic recommended for me is no longer on the market, so I finally settled on the next best thing I could find.  Rolaids softchews.  Bill's mom had a bag of them and I took one and got some relief to sleep for 7 hours anyhow!

I really did sleep well last night because I didn't nap at all yesterday.  I have been off my pain meds since 2 a.m. Thursday.  I am so sore, but the less medication I put into me, I think the better this heart burn will go away.  It's awful bad.  It was gone when I went to sleep at 10 and then when I woke up a little before 5 it was still gone, by the time I got a glass of water and sipped a few sips of water it was back raging again.  My chest is on FIRE!  Clear up into my throat.  I hate it.  My tummy is making the most gawd awful noises, because it's so empty and wants the fluids, but I am having trouble making myself drink so much when It all hurts so darned bad. 
The clinic nurse assured me this was all normal.  Some patients get this heartburn, some don't.  I guess I am the unlucky one?  I think it has a lot to do with all the crushed medications I have had to take the last week and having nothing in my belly to go along with it. 

I am going to attempt to get my bp meds down this morning and rest up my tummy.  I also planning on calling in to see if they can order me a prescription for something to begin to heal me from the inside out.   If I have an ulcer this will not be good at all.  This will totally delay my healing. 

Pain medicine free is going okay.   I am sore.  Hella sore, still, but I just don't feel like chewing up childrens tylenol to cut the pain.  Not too sure how much that would do for this pain anyhow, so it's not worth it to me.  I'd rather save my stomach for what I REALLY need to put in it. 

Well I better get off here.  Time to get started crushing and taking each of my pills.  This is a long process cause we are staggering them every hour  to see if I tolerate them better.  I am still in pain, but whatever??