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I still can not quite belief how good I am feeling after this major surgery. I was up washing myself 12 hours after the operation, walking up and down the corridor 24 hours after operation and home after less than 3 days.

We went for a walk today in the local woods - slowly of course and shopping afterwards. I do get tired and have long siestas but I am also up in the middle of the night writing my blog and am excited about life.

Blissfully I have had very little pain but they have put the fear of life into me about lifting things. Everybody says not to lift but I have not yet found a satisfactory explanation why not and what it actually does to ones body. Reading the forums, I have probably done more than most women in their first week after surgery and I feel just fine. My body tells me the things that hurt but I have not conclusive evidence that what I am doing is too little or too much. What happens to the belly muscles after surgery? I am usually really good at digging up information via google, but this is coming up with a blank. Weird, considering 1 in 4 women has a hysterectomy before they are 55. One would have thought that one can get specific information rather than the finger wagging 'don't do it' stuff (which I have no doubt is good advice, I just want to know what is happening to my body)