Day 16 continued - Most of the Gang are Back in Action!

The gang is definitely re-grouping. The Minty Mutt needed a walk, so Furry Mama took him out for a good thirty-minute circuit. The Domestic Goddess has done the washing, vacuumed, dusted and had a general tidy up. Creative Clara has gone nuts and opened a Twitter account even though she has absolutely no clue how it works and what the # is even about. Clever Bird can't decide at the moment whether Clara is a genius or an idiot, but Clara got all over-excited when she realised that someone had viewed her Baggy Body's blog from the Ukraine. She even let Lady Eadwynn in on the act (in the guise of a Saxon peasant) by using her photo at West Stow Saxon Village as Baggy's Twitter profile photo. If Twitter gets Baggy's blog even further afield then Clever Bird will have to eat her negativity.

Freda Fretter is so chilled out that she's off having a snooze somewhere. Even Hairy Biker Hen re-covered her motorbike and apologised for thinking of selling it yesterday. Archaeological Annie picked up a rather nice Mesolithic "hand-axe" while Furry Mama was walking Minty Mutt and The Goddess just washed it off.

 

If only Baggy was allowed to drive, Grotty Groom could go and see her Boys, but we can't have everything and Baggy is feeling great. So, a little update on exactly how Baggy is. It's twenty days to the hour, since Baggy came out of her surgery. She no longer needs any painkillers. Her wound still feels rather odd. It's tender and a little sore, but healing very well. There is a very weird "dip" in the middle of it, but that might still be due to swelling; Clever Bird isn't sure. She can walk pretty much normally, just perhaps not as vigorously as she's used to. There is a slight "pulling" sensation as she walks, but that's probably to be expected.

 

Vacuuming made Baggy aware that she's still healing, especially as The Goddess had to lift the vacuum cleaner but really it's just a case of making sure that Clever Bird stays in charge of the gang for now and doesn't let any of them do anything daft. So over all, even Freda Fretter agrees that Baggy Body is pretty much recovered from her surgery. She is certainly in a lot less pain than when Lawrence the 15cm durmoid cyst was still attached to her ovary.

 

Of course, there's that other little nuisance known as the menopause. Having the full hysterectomy including the ovaries removed, means that it causes the menopause to hit instantly. But Baggy is an old bird (she was fifty-six five days ago), so she was already in the menopause. Probably had been for over a year. So Clever Bird wasn't really expecting this to be a problem. well, so far, not only has it not been a problem, but actually the hot-flushes are less frequent and don't last as long as they did before surgery. The night-sweats have reduced dramatically. It's difficult to know how the mood swings have changed, as Clever Bird has pointed out just how stressed Freda has made Baggy, but actually it seems likely that even they have lessened. So as far as the "Lawrence" surgery is concerned Clever Bird reckons that Baggy is 90% recovered..........