Past and present

I've given up trying to keep the titles of these blogs consistent and ordered. I've lost track of the days.

I had the surgery on the 29th so a little less than 3 weeks ago. I'm almost back to myself again. I'm thinking and behaving normally and my scalp is almost completely healed. Unfortunately major surgery and a couple of weeks of doing nothing has left me very weak. I get tired really quickly so it's going to take a fair amount of work before I can go back to regular life.

I'm trying to keep my days busy, lots of people to catch up with and things to do around the house but I still get so exhausted mentally just doing that. I have trouble concentrating on things for more than 20-30 minutes at a time, even varied things like video games which I used to be able to do for hours. Reading articles is hard work, I tend to get distracted and wander off in the middle of them. I imagine this is just something I have to work at and build up again.

If anyone has any questions please feel free to post them in the comments and I will endeavour to answer them!

Going back to what actually happened in hospital;

Once I was out of the HDU I went back into the regular ward where I had my own room. It was a pretty sweet change, much nicer to be alone and not constantly harassed by the other patients.
One of the things you don't anticipate is that they wake you up every hour in the HDU to check that you haven't had a sudden stroke or some other complication so you get very little rest and feel exhausted the entire time. Suddenly only being checked on every 4-6 hours makes a world of difference in terms of how you feel.
Plus being able to get up and walk around makes things a lot better. After lying down for 4 days straight you get insanely sore hips and knees. It takes a lot of effort to get up and get walking again.

Annnnd I've run out of attention.