Change in Fashion

For quite awhile...since the surgery...I've been wearing elastic-based pants and shorts. Stretch pants, elastic boxers, things of that sort. It was comfortable over the incision mark (and for many months, as I've whined here, it was covering and helping put some (but not a lot) of pressure on bandages covering the incision.

Now that the incision is externally healed (mostly) I have been trying to wear actual belt-holding legwear.

My old belt isn't fitting quite right. I finally dug out my old leather punch to fix that. I suppose that's one bit of good news.

I have noticed, though, that I'm still sore. I think the stiff, unforgiving belt over the general area that is probably healing internally is not sitting well overall with the scar tissue. It isn't painful so much as it is annoying and distracting. By the end of the day I look forward into putting on elastic sleepy pants. It's a bit of a dilemma; I can loosen the belt and my shorts will fall down as soon as I put my (regrettably light) wallet in the pocket, or I can keep them tight and push through the soreness. Unfortunately I still need to make them tighter because right now the belt is just tight enough to keep them up, but adding keys to my wallet and phone and talking a little way gives me that "oh dear I think I'm about to expose my behind" feeling. How do teenagers stand that?

So things continue to get better even though there are times where I encounter another obstacle to push through and I suppose the options are to either lay in bed or get up and slog through them once again. Seeing as my computer isn't near the bed you can probably guess which one I've resigned myself to.