Some Progress

Retroactively posted, local time: 10.46am

This morning I was allowed to take a proper shower. Getting out of bed proved harder than expected - it feels like there's still some pulling on the stitches on my left side. And dizziness. Two nurses held me by each arm as one of them would wave a cotton bud swabbed with something to prevent me from passing out.

It felt great to be able to wash my hair though, and for the first time I got a good look at the surgery site (they had me sitting on a rubber donut positioned on a chair). The packing is still in there but everything looks clean and less swollen than yesterday. Minimal bleeding too.

Once I'd carefully washed the area with Hibiscrub and toweled myself down as best I could, the nurses powdered me and helped me back to bed before applying a Betadine solution to the suture wounds. My bandages got replaced too.

All more exhertion than I expected, but it's nice to see progress after five days in bed!