On Baby A's birthday, the c-section surgery went as planned. I walked into the OR around 9:30am and was pushed out around 2 hours later. W was instructed to wait outside while the team was getting me prepared for anesthesia. He then got invited to come in and sat next to me while the team worked on getting Baby A out of me 😂. W was a good DJ and Baby A was born while Taylor Swift's Shake It Off was being played. So...did I feel any pain during this life-changing surgery? No, I didn't. I had a spinal block. I never felt any type of pain during the surgery. Getting the anesthesia injected - however - was the most uncomfortable part of the surgery. There was a lot of pressure. I felt my back being pulled or pushed, or something. It just felt very uncomfortable, not painful, but very uncomfortable. It was also hard to try leaning toward the source of that uncomfortableness. Learning to relax while being uncomfortable was a very hard thing to do. But it was necessary. Once it...
I had been eating NORMAL this week - like I wasn't on any special diet. I've had my favorite Chinese roasted duck, even had some tofu, took a risk in trying out two pieces of shrimps, cheese, sausage, and had tomato basil pasta. Had really bad stomachache almost everyday but it goes away after dumping them out during nature calls. I think part of the stomach might not even be from the so-called potential food interaction, but rather from my body not used to having so much flavors coming inside my mouth?! I'm no doctor or a healthcare professional, but I think my daredevil spirit in food intake this week proved having some of my love food back, even with some downfalls in stomach cries, was worth every bite :)