Today I ran some errands by myself with a few of the kids. Now that I am down to just one pill of pain meds I am not as drowsy as I was last week and don't feel loopy at all anymore. My stomach has been cramping some on and off because my bowels are still trying to get back to normal. The liver surgeon said that it can take up to 4 weeks after a major surgery for the bowels to start working correctly again. I still don't have much of an appetite and foods that I used to love and crave all the time just hold no interest for me at all. I really have no desire to eat any chocolate or cookies or sweets of any kind. In a way that's a good thing, but I miss them tasting good to me! I've had very few sweets at all this whole Christmas season!

Some of the surgical tape is starting to come off of my incision. The body is an amazing thing in its ability to heal! I still have tape residue all over my belly and upper body. That stuff is hard to get off! I work on it a little each day, but I have such sensitive skin that I try not to do too much at once or I will have sore patches everywhere!