Writing out my story of surviving sepsis has been good for me. Writing is always therapeutic and healing for me, and writing this story out was no exception. I finished all five parts of how it all began and the details of my hospital stay. But once I got home from the hospital, it wasn't like I was suddenly 100% back to normal. I still had a long road of recovery ahead. I'm hoping to share that part of the story within this one post. If you missed the rest of the story, be sure to start at the beginning -- Sepsis Survivor: My Story of Healing (Part I). My Recovery My story left off Continue Reading
Recovery Items for a Vaginal Tear
As you may know if you read my daughter's birth story, after delivering her I found out that I had a fourth-degree vaginal tear that went all the way through my rectum. I know, sounds pretty, right? Pretty gruesome and painful -- that's for sure! Thanks to my epidural, I didn't feel the tear happen at all. Thank the Lord Almighty! But the recovery from such a vaginal tear is not fun. I was given a two-month recovery time, which feels like forever! I was given plenty of pain medication in the hospital, and they sent me home with quite a bit too. That has been very helpful, but pain medicine Continue Reading