My name is Jenn, and I'm a 27 year old married and babied chick. In addition to a husband, a seven year old daughter, and a five year old autistic son, I also have four cats, three hermit crabs, two frogs, a few fish, and one snorty little Pug. I work from home doing a variety of writing and even some web design. I love blogging, digital photography and web design.
So the week before my gastric bypass surgery I got sick with some kind of crap that gave me a really high fever for about three days straight, and a horrible cough that just wouldn’t let up. I survived on Dayquil, Nyquil, Delysum, cough drops and codeine cough syrup, and managed to shake everything but a bit of a cough the day before surgery.
Two days before surgery I got my period.
I’ve been home from the hospital since the 20th, and have developed a bit of a cough right around that time. Alyssa and Ryan both have the same type of cough as well.
And Dan? He has something too… can you get a fever with a sinus infection? He started running a really high fever yesterday evening at his aunt’s house, so we left early, came home, and he went right to bed, even though it was barely past 7:00pm. He got up around 4:30am this morning to take some Nyquil and Mucinex, and then went back to bed until noon. Today he’s been consuming a steady diet of Mucinex, Tylenol, Sudafed PE and now some Zicam and a soothing throat spray.
Poor guy. 
He has been doing so much to help me out since my surgery, and now he’s run down and ill.
I’m also not sleeping well. I don’t understand it. In the hospital I understood why I was getting crappy sleep — a horrible hospital bed, discomfort and pain, and badgering from nurses every 2-4 hours, ’round the clock. But I’m at home. Our mattress is in perfect shape. It’s a double-sided pillow top, for god’s sake. I should not be struggling to fall asleep, waking up several times in the night and then popping up in the morning, tired yet restless and eager to get out of bed.
Here’s to hoping that as I start to feel better and get back into normal routines, I’ll sleep better. Otherwise… bring on the Nyquil? To tell you the truth, I’m very tempted to take that tonight. I just want to get a good night’s sleep!
One thing I found whenever I had my various surgeries, is that I always had problems sleeping until I was pretty well healed. I don’t know if it was because even though I was not in pain, I was still uncomfortable (last surgery I could only sleep on my left side & back for a week), or what, but it is something I’ve noticed. Perhaps the further out you get post-op, you might find your sleeping getting better? I hope so anyway!
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