Day 4

Not much more happened at the end of Day 3.. I took Shamrock out to pee which really took a toll on me. I'm trying to wean off of the percocet so it was hard to do that activity at night without needing some. I'm only taking half tablets now.. and I've only taken 13 so far since Monday (they prescribed 50 so I figure that's not too bad). The thing is the discomfort level I'm at now I'm not sure that extra strength tylenol will take that edge off, so I may be stuck with half tabs for a bit.. S/N: I haven't taken ANY yet today :) .. but I've only taken Bam out and have been pretty still since then.. we'll see how the day goes. I'm sure I'll need to take one before I do stretches.

I got out of bed pretty quickly today :) it took me only about 2 minutes! And then Dave called :) which put me in a really good move, I'm sure he's the reason I have the extra pep in my step right now :) more to come...

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I just went to the store.. go thing it's in front of my building bc I was able to drive slow/take turns slow. I picked up from rapid release extra strength tylenol. I haven't taken any kind of pain relief med today, and I'm hurting at around a 4.5 (which isn't too bad). I'm going to take the tylenol and if that helps me then I'm sticking to it. If not then I'm going to do half tabs of the percocet as minimal as possible. I'm having problems with the side effects of the percocet (not going into more detail) and it's just not worth it to me. I don't know how people get addicted to this stuff. It was pretty sweet when I was in tons of pain that I took one and all the pain went away. But to just take them for the hell of it, why would you want to deal with the side effects?

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So, I survived the day without any pain pills. And for the first time since the surgery I'm not afraid to go to tonight (i kind of have been the past few days bc the mornings suck so bad. But if I was fine all day what could happen during the night? (probably just jinxed myself)