Guess who's back...

Guess who's back, back again
Litty's back, tell a friend
Guess who's back,
guess who's back...


This has been a tough journey so far, but boy am I grateful to be home!  The past week has almost felt like an out of body experience. Waking up and not knowing where I was or what had happened was quite surreal.  Being in the Intensive care unit where every single aspect of my recovery was expertly monitored and appropriate treatments given, I was a complete passenger in quite a scary environment.  My progress from Intensive Care was according to plan, but I did feel a little stir crazy and already had enough of the drips and the various lines going in and out of me.  The move out of Intensive Care to the private room was such a relief and felt like I was making progress. The final step was leaving hospital yesterday evening to get home and start properly recovering.

All along the way Sarah has been there holding my hand, helping where she could, offering love and support.  An amazing woman, I constantly remind myself how lucky I am to be married to her.  In fact everyone has been so supportive it has really buoyed my spirit and made me more determined to recover as quickly as possible.

Today has been a complete rest day, consisting of: plenty of small 'whipple' sized portions of food, a little bit of shuffling around the house groaning about how much pain I'm in, a bit of mindless TV watching due to still feeling fazed, and writing this blog.  Progress is being made, albeit slowly, and that's what I have to set my expectations at...slowly does it.  I am still daunted at the recovery needed to get back to being as 'awesome' as I was pre-op, but that's the plan (I've lost 2 stones in weight).

Tomorrow we go to see my surgeon Mr Hilal to talk about a couple of things: the histology report from all the bits they took out to see how far the cancer had spread, how long the two drains stay in my sides, and to get a view of how many stiches were used in the whole operation. 

Keep the comments coming and any music, film book recommendations send them through. Eminem kicked my day off today! Thanks to AD and also Spencer for the DVDs and books much appreciated.

*Artwork by my daughter Dorothy,  a leaving hospital present.