Surgery Update at 1 week

Today is exactly 1 week since my surgery. This usually means that there is still plenty of soreness, but also a lot of improvement. This is not the case with this surgery. Since the surgery I had been feeling a very slow, gradual improvement, until yesterday morning when I seemed to have a minor setback. However, after the pain I felt this morning, I don't think it was a "minor setback" any longer. This morning I felt like it was day 2 after the surgery!
What hurts? The question should be "What doesn't hurt?"
My "top" feels like someone took a foam bat to it and beat me over and over again...sore and unpleasant, but not too horrible considering the bat was "foam." As for my stomach, there are no words to describe the pain that I feel...seriously. I would say that it is unbearable, but since I'm still here struggling through it, let's just say that it must be one of the closest after- surgery pains to unbearable that you can get. Touching the skin on my stomach sends pains across to the other side of my stomach. I won't be able to stand up straight for 3-4 weeks and I have to sleep on my back with pillows under my knees and pillows behind my head to prop me up as if I'm in a recliner. After 1 week, I cannot yet get out of bed alone, or get up from anywhere alone, and on occasion, Paul still needs to help me get in the bed.
How does everything look? It seems like I'm going to love it....I mean after what I saw before this I don't know how I wouldn't love it, but right now it is all swollen and bruised, so everyone can ask me that again in about a month or two! For now, keep the prayers coming please....we really need them!

Also, Preston had to go to the After Hours clinic this evening to see why his arm hurt so much today. He's ok, his elbow had partially popped out of socket. They put it back in and he's good to go! He was excited about the sucker the doctor gave him for being a big boy! I said, "Your arm feels better?" He's so cute, he goes "Yes, the doctor fixed it."