I am on YOUR side with this one, Stacy. Hopefully, he sees the light before you leave.

Shirley

Not an argument he should have won. Please don't take that drive, Stacy. It is too much jogging you. Wait until you feel up to it.

Stacy, why don't you stay in the 5th wheel and rest up while he drives back to check on the house. You need to rest and heal.

It's not worth being a martyr for. You may have a set-back you don't want. I wonder how he would feel if things were reversed. You KNOW he'd probably whine and give you many reasons why he couldn't.

I wouldn't go either. What is so important that you have to go this weekend? Won't it wait another week or 2?
Leslie

Tell him to go - you will stay put!

I have to join the others in begging you to stay put.

Stacy you have to look out for yourself...only you know how you feel. Traveling too soon can cause more severe problems.

Please don't do it, Stacy. Either stay in the camper or check into a motel.

My DH is very sweet at the beginning of a sickness, then the sympathy tends to wear off fast! I swear I have to keep saying "I'm pregnant, I'm tired, I can't do that"

Please, please don't go!
ivamae

I agree with everyone else. You only know how you feel.
MEN!!!!!!!!!

Please take good care of yourself. You can tear some stitches inside and it can scar and give you pain years later, this is what I was told when I got a hysterectomy last November. You can harm yourself and you may not realize it.....for now.

if anyone said i had to drive in a truck hauling a 5th wheel for 5 hours, i'd check back into the hospital...gads i was in there for 2 weeks!

please get dr's ok before going anyplace!

Yep! Your DH has "cabin fever". He's out of his comfort zone and wants to get home. Can you talk to your doctor first? What linn_z said is true...not enough people realize that. You need to heal on the inside which takes a lot longer than the incision site on the outside. If the drive takes 6 hrs. normally, then it might take longer if you need to get out and walk or move around some. If you go, take a few pillows with you for support and comfort.

Hope all goes well,
Leslie/KS

I want to tell you to stay, and yet I know how stubborn men can be. They will NEVER understand. I'm sorry you are having to deal with this.

Grinch, who needs to mind her guy ... carefully.

Sorry - big error! Inadvertent! Start over!

Grinch, who needs to mind her gut ... carefully!

Please - don't let your own stubbornness put you at risk!

You need rest to facilitate healing, not the jiggle of travel to provide something of a PITA.

Plus ... being under a head of emotional steam for at least a good portion of the trip. That doesn't facilitate healing, either.

If it's not possible/appropriate to visit the doc, how about giving him/her a call, when hubby's handy, to ask about the wisdom of the proposed trip. If s/he gives the answer that you're hoping for, put hubby on the phone.

Let her describe to him the criteria that one uses to identify a jackass.

If the fifth wheel has to roll - can you find a spot to bunk with a friend? Motel? A shelter?

Here's an idea ..

Get a big bottle that can serve as a pill bottle.

Get some little red cinnamon hearts (it's getting near Valentine's Day).

Put a bunch into the bottle.

Label it, "Common Sense". With some humourous instructions as to dosage.

Invite hubby to go "on the pill".

I hope that you can arrange some further relaxing time to promote that healing.

ole joyful

When I had my hysterectomy I rushed into doing housework etc.I had to I had no help.I suffered a set back I was soooooooo exhausted I thought I died someone forgot to tell me.....

Please update us! After I had surgery - I wasn't to ride in the car except to go home & until back for follow-up stitch removal a couple of weeks later...

STACY, YOU WILL BE IN AGONY!!!!! Please don't go! I'be been there, done that, but not as long a drive, and not because I was told I had to. One month, with only short trips to the store, ect., before I went camping at an engine show THREE hours away, towing the camper. I hurt so bad by the time we got there, it wasn't funny. I also had the bikini cut, not the bandaid surgery. You should still be hugging a pillow to sneeze or cough. Riding for 6 hours, even on super smooth roads, is NOT going to be fun. Brian will end up having to leave you in OK, instead of you being in MO waiting for him to get back.

Tami who is hurting just thinking about you riding that long this soon after surgery.

Sorry it took so long for me to get back. Well I am sure you know with my being stubborn and out to prove to him..that I shouldn't make the trip I went. I cried I hurt so bad and trust me motrin 800 do nothing for me...(remember I am a baby) so anyways I never got a I'm sorry from Brian but I got support from him I could tell he felt horrible by the time we got home. It was stupid of me to go it was stupid ofhim to want me to but it is over and done and I told him when I was crying he better never have surgery...cuz he would ride in a dually pulling a trailer...(course thouse are just words cuz I would suffer more for him hurting)...Thanks everyone and sorry I couldn't get back on to post sooner.....Stacy

I'm so sorry, Stacy :o(

It's okay Glenda I am guessing him being a "man" and used to being waited on hand and foot by me (my fault) that he just really didn't know what to do with me being down. He is really good to me and I know he loves me tons....I just probably should have called the doc and as OJ said if she gave the answer I wanted (not to go) then hand him the phone and let her get him...).....but it is over..and I made it..just alot of pain with it.....Stacy