https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-slow-healing Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Tue, 21 Apr 2026 18:44:32 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-slow-healing/page/2#post-659362 Mon, 02 Jul 2012 18:00:52 +0000 Mochi 659362@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I can't add anything new here, Sona--please just take it easy. You know how hard work it is for the body to simply build itself back up. I will have thoughts of you sunning yourself on the beach, in hopes that they translate into reality at the soonest chance! In the meantime, it looks like your family can manage for themselves and are able to enjoy summer in their own way, so just focus on getting better! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-slow-healing/page/2#post-659323 Mon, 02 Jul 2012 17:01:38 +0000 CocoLion 659323@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Sona, it is OK to rest. Don't feel guilty about not being able to go out and do things. Go easy on yourself and get well soon. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-slow-healing/page/2#post-659314 Mon, 02 Jul 2012 16:38:58 +0000 Sveta 659314@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Sona, please take care of yourself and get a lot of rest. Your health is the most important thing! You will have plenty of time to do other things when you heal.<br /> I am sending healing thoughts your way... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-slow-healing/page/2#post-659289 Mon, 02 Jul 2012 15:38:06 +0000 ironkurtin 659289@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Sona, remember you are just as worthy of pampering and care as your beloved family members! Treat yourself as you would them, if they were in your place. Rest, relax, and listen to your body, it will tel you what it needs. You're in my thoughts! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-slow-healing/page/2#post-659264 Mon, 02 Jul 2012 14:37:10 +0000 Anonymous 659264@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Take care of yourself, and don't fret. Stress can really do a number on you if you let it. I'll continue to keep you in my thoughts and prayers. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-slow-healing#post-659260 Mon, 02 Jul 2012 14:20:34 +0000 Angie 659260@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>It's hard to rest sometimes - I GET IT - and I am as impatient as they come. I am a huge hypocrite for telling you to rest when I don't. But at least I came clean :)</p> <p>You are in my thoughts, sweet Sona. Please rest up and listen to your body. That way you will be on the beach with your hubs and cherub sooner. That's the best motivation! </p> <p>Sending you hugs, positive vibes and lots of good cheer beautiful lady. xoxo </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-slow-healing#post-659230 Mon, 02 Jul 2012 11:49:42 +0000 Janet 659230@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>What Jonesy said! Try to be patient, your body is telling you that you need resting time to heal. I know it's hard when you're in the habit of going and doing and taking care of everything! </p> <p>Sending hugs. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-slow-healing#post-659218 Mon, 02 Jul 2012 11:14:25 +0000 krishnidoux 659218@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Sona, praying for you. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-slow-healing#post-659215 Mon, 02 Jul 2012 11:05:55 +0000 Anonymous 659215@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I am praying for healing and recovery for you Sona. Hang in there. Try to eat as healthy as you can - I found juicing particularly helpful - and try to sleep as much and as often as possible. This soon will be behind you. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-slow-healing#post-659207 Mon, 02 Jul 2012 10:43:33 +0000 Inge 659207@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I completely understand you want to feel 100% again right now, Sona, but please allow your body all the time it needs to recover and heal. Sending hugs and good vibes your way! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-slow-healing#post-659205 Mon, 02 Jul 2012 10:39:30 +0000 harmonica 659205@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>VC said it all. Hugs and all the best, Sona </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-slow-healing#post-659200 Mon, 02 Jul 2012 09:11:43 +0000 Louise 659200@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>(((hugs)))get plenty of rest and take it easy x </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-slow-healing#post-659154 Mon, 02 Jul 2012 07:22:15 +0000 ramya 659154@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Sona , you hve been brave.... It's just a matter of few more days... u will be there... hang in there dear... Give it time.... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-slow-healing#post-659146 Mon, 02 Jul 2012 07:02:07 +0000 ManidipaM 659146@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Sona, I'm so sorry your body's taking longer to adjust than you'd hoped, but do give it time, please? It's only taking what it needs to take ---- and it's better to take that time NOW, than do deal with unpleasant issues later. Isn't that what you'd have told a patient who came to you?</p> <p>Also, don't underestimate the emotional aftermath of the procedure. Yes, you've been upbeat and brave and unbelievably strong... but the mind needs to heal as much as the body. It's not just the trauma, but the way your chemical balances need to slow down and reset after all the pain and adrenaline of the last many weeks and months. And that without the kind of pharmaceutical support most bodies are able to depend on.</p> <p>My great-uncle, a paediatrician, was often heard scolding at young mothers (he was patient with his *patients*, hardly ever with their parents!) who came complaining to him that their infant wasn't eating normally or growing normally or talking at the normal time: "There is no such thing as a 'normal baby', don't you understand? We look at 10 babies, take an average and say '6 weeks, 6 kilos is normal' --- but NO baby will EVER be normal, you hear? No baby will EVER gain wait right on schedule, speak right on schedule, contract measles and recover right on schedule --- no more than you the mother will bleed and breastfeed and sleep exactly like the lady sitting next to you. We're human beings! And no human being is ever truly normal, or it would be a scary world!" He was a cantankerous old chap, and impatient with normal fears and worries himself --- but he was a brilliant physician and absolutely spot-on in this.</p> <p>Normal is not a measure to hold yourself up to. Take what time YOU, the unique and wonderful being called Sona, need to get back on your feet. The bermudas and the beach will be waiting when you do. Until then, tell the world's responsibilities to wait, and take a longer and much-deserved break. Hey, even go home to your mother to be babied for a bit, if that's what it takes to give yourself 'permission' to stay in bed.</p> <p>Take care, Sona, and wish you a healthy, *happy* recovery soon --- as soon as your body says so, that is. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-slow-healing#post-659122 Mon, 02 Jul 2012 05:51:12 +0000 goldenpig 659122@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Keep resting and healing--it can take time but you are on the right track! Lots of hugs and well wishes--take care of yourself and let others take care of you. Now is the time to focus on yourself and your healing! Hope you're feeling back to normal really soon! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-slow-healing#post-659109 Mon, 02 Jul 2012 05:38:19 +0000 rae 659109@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Hang in there, Sona! You are doing the right thing by resting - give your body what it wants. I am sure everyone will understand. Bug hugs to you! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-slow-healing#post-659074 Mon, 02 Jul 2012 04:01:05 +0000 Deborah 659074@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Sona I am sorry you are recuperating as quickly as you had hoped. Coming up two years ago I had a hysterectomy and had 6 weeks recovery time. I decided to make the most of it and while the first few weeks I really did rest, took pain meds, watched the whole 6 series of Sex In The City (I had never watched it before) and enjoyed visits from my girlfriends, in the final weeks I started to go out shopping, see friends and get back to normal before I returned to work. Despite the initial pain and tiredness etc I actually recall this time as a happy time, so can I encourage you to not fight it. Just do what you have to to get well and try not to have to many expectations. I am sure you will be up and around before you know it. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-slow-healing#post-659073 Mon, 02 Jul 2012 04:00:18 +0000 velvetychocolate 659073@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Hang in there - I know it can't be easy to be in this situation, but I think it's very important to just take a few days or weeks to heal. Never mind what the 'norm' is for everyone else in terms of healing (or the so-called average), because those ideas are for people who can take the anti-inflammatories, and for right now, you can't take them - so naturally, your healing process is going to take a wee bit longer. Don't push yourself! I know you just want to get up and get on with things, and get it all "over with", but it's extremely important to just take some time out to heal and rest. </p> <p>It's not necessary to keep pushing yourself and keep trying to rush through this. </p> <p>I don't know if it helps at all, but sometimes I've felt like it wasn't "ok" to feel my own feelings or cry, because I was terrified that it wouldn't stop, that I'd cry and cry and cry - that I'd somehow be enveloped or swamped by the depths of my feelings. I can't help but wonder if there's a similar kind of feeling going on there for you too? Not about crying or feeling emotions, necessarily - but is it possible that being a health care professional, that you are not all that comfortable with being 'under the weather' for even just a short while?</p> <p>I just wanted to say that if you allow it (whatever pain you're experiencing) to happen - things will change and improve a lot faster than if you try to push past things and pretend it's not happening. Pain changes and pain ends. Much better to take to your bed for a few days than try to push on through it all. It's ok to be 'under the weather' for a few days, ask for some TLC, and ask people to get you a cup of tea and the paper, while you rest up. I promise, you will heal a whole lot faster this way than if you try to rush yourself back to normal before you've had a chance to acknowledge and heal what's "going on", so to speak. </p> <p>Give yourself some space, some TLC - and remember, it is truly ok (and safe) to feel what you're feeling. In fact, by doing this, I truly believe you will speed up the healing process. </p> <p>I am so glad that you took the day 'off' and that you had a good GP (doctor) to sort of hold your hand and explain that it's normal for you to take a bit longer to heal due to not being able to take anti-inflammatories. </p> <p>Do you feel better, having taken that day off? Take another few of those, please! Nuture yourself, and take good care of yourself. There's no rush. It will be ok - just because you take some time to heal does not mean you're going to end up feeling ill for a long time or anything. Healing isn't about denying what's going on, and it isn't trying to push yourself to hurry up and get better before you've even had a chance to acknowledge (emotionally and physically) what's happening. It's a good idea to turn a little bit inward, and extend some of that fabulous,caring spirit of yours toward yourself. By doing this, you'll truly heal and you'll also speed up the process, instead of getting in the way of it. </p> <p>Sending over tea, some homemade chicken soup (with turmeric in it, a natural anti-inflammatory), a pile of slightly dated (being as it's 10pm here now) Sunday papers to read while you loll around in your room. Sleep in tomorrow morning, and someone here at YLF will bring you a breakfast tray. Take Monday (and Tuesday and Wednesday) off too please! If you do that, then you'll be in better shape for Thursday - 4th of July, which could be kind of fun. </p> <p>What do you think? Take Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday OFF. By YLF order. If you feel like puttering around and enjoying some festivities on Thursday, then that's great. Take Friday off too, plus the weekend as well. I bet this will have you feeling a thousand percent better by next Monday (no, not tomorrow, but next Monday). </p> <p>Take care, and feel better soon. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-slow-healing#post-659063 Mon, 02 Jul 2012 03:34:40 +0000 Echo 659063@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I am so sorry that you aren't healing as fast as you had wished, but your dr. is right about it being okay (GOOD, even) to allow yourself some pain meds, your family to help you and to get lots of rest. The more you rest and the less you overexert yourself now, the faster you will recover and be able to exert yourself later. Of course, that is so much easier for someone else to say than it is to go through it. : ( I wish you a speedy recovery, and know that the beach will still be there, regardless of how long it takes to get back to 100%. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-slow-healing#post-659058 Mon, 02 Jul 2012 03:28:47 +0000 Vicki 659058@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Dear Sona, I'm sending you healing thoughts, a big hug and wishes for your speedy recovery. Keep listening to your body, give it time and rest when you need to rest. Thinking of you and hope you feel better with each new day. Those tapered bermudas will be there to enjoy and you may even find that you'd like them with leggings, too! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-slow-healing#post-659030 Mon, 02 Jul 2012 02:34:20 +0000 Jaime 659030@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Another request that you take it easy and also be easy on yourself for taking it easy. All your family and everyone else wants is a healthy Sona - the beach can wait a bit longer. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-slow-healing#post-659029 Mon, 02 Jul 2012 02:31:08 +0000 christieanne 659029@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Just rest and don't push too hard to get back to normal. I am sure you have given the same wonderful care to your patients Summer is going to last for many weeks yet and you can get plenty of use from the shorts in August.<br /> Please take care Sona! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-slow-healing#post-658968 Sun, 01 Jul 2012 23:47:30 +0000 missvee 658968@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>It sounds like you are on the right track if you can just concentrate on getting yourself healthy again. Life will go on around you so try to let go as much as you can and just relax and heal. You've been struggling with your health for far too long and those beach days will come soon enough. Take care of you! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-slow-healing#post-658954 Sun, 01 Jul 2012 23:03:54 +0000 Aziraphale 658954@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Hang in there! It'll come. Everyone is different, and there's no question that ibuprofen can help a lot, so if you're not able to take any, it's not surprising that the recovery might take longer. </p> <p>But anything's got to be better than bleeding like a stuck pig for months on end, right?</p> <p>Take care and get lots of rest. Don't feel guilty. You'll feel so much better before you know it. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-slow-healing#post-658953 Sun, 01 Jul 2012 23:02:02 +0000 Anonymous 658953@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>This is one of those times when you are just going to have to be patient and go with what your body is telling you and let family members wait on you. Friends with similar surgeries say it usually take 6 months to feel like yourself again. I'm sure you'll feel well enough to go to the beach before the end of the summer if you don't over do it, but if not, why not plan a winter vacation at a warm beach? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-slow-healing#post-658946 Sun, 01 Jul 2012 22:44:10 +0000 MsMary 658946@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Big gentle hugs, Sona! Please take care of your sweet self!! Summer is less than two weeks old and I am sure you have many wonderful days coming up soon!! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-slow-healing#post-658935 Sun, 01 Jul 2012 21:56:15 +0000 Jonesy 658935@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Sona, you have to rest!! Please allow yourself some time to heal and recharge. There is plenty of summer left to enjoy, once you are feeling better. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-slow-healing#post-658933 Sun, 01 Jul 2012 21:54:26 +0000 Isis 658933@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Sona, I bet you'll be feeling great soon! Hang in there and rest up; you'll be in those bermudas before you know it! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-slow-healing#post-658925 Sun, 01 Jul 2012 21:28:01 +0000 Diana 658925@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm sorry to hear that you're still not feeling 100%, Sona, but listen to your body and rest up and take care of yourself! I'm sure you will be back to your fab self soon and rocking your bermudas at the beach! </p> <p>xoxoxo </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-slow-healing#post-658913 Sun, 01 Jul 2012 20:59:59 +0000 Anonymous 658913@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm sending you lots of good thoughts, dear Sona. </p>