August 27, 2025

The Thing About Gas After Surgery

After certain surgeries you have to pass gas (among other goals) before you can move onto the next goal and ultimately before you’re considered far enough along in your recovery to go home.

After all 4 c-sections this was part of my recovery process, celebrating my first post-surgery fart because it meant that things were working again post surgery. I (and I imagine most others) spent most of my life trying to avoid passing gas or at least trying to avoid doing so around others and then discovered a place in the hospital where passing gas is revered and a time in my life when I was hoping to have some to pass. Who would have thought?

It’s Mom’s turn to have that goal on her list and we are all on the edge of our seats for a couple of days now (which apparently is normal) for this to happen because it’s nothing by mouth including water until then in the case of her surgery. A humbling time where we are realizing how we can truly be grateful for certain things we always imagined we’d be wishing away.