Your surgeon will advise you to walk as soon as you're able. If necessary, a nurse or other medical professional will help you move around the recovery room or hallway. Medical staff will likely help you to walk around as soon as your anesthesia wears off, or within 2 to 4 hours after surgery. Walking after surgery is essential, as it stimulates the bowels and prevents blood clots. Rubbing helps with pain and can stimulate your bowels to begin moving again. Ask your doctor about the best area to rub. If you had surgery on your abdominal area, disregard this suggestion. If you're not able to walk, a doctor or nurse might extend your legs, then bring your knees toward your chest. They might also help you rotate your torso to the left and right. These light exercises can help your digestive tract return to normal function. Ask your doctor or nurse how to do light exercises without hurting your surgical site. Chewing gum sends nerve signals and hormones to the intestines that stimulate the muscle movements involved in digestion. There's strong evidence that patients who chew gum after surgery begin passing gas sooner than those who don't. While scientists don't understand why, sugar-free gum is more effective than gum that contains sugar. Talk to your doctor before chewing gum after surgery. In a clinical trial, patients who drank a cup of caffeinated coffee after surgery began passing gas about 15 hours before those who didn't drink coffee. To stay on the safe side, ask your doctor if it's safe to consume caffeine before trying coffee. In the study, coffee was more effective at restoring bowel function than tea. If you're having trouble passing gas, your doctor can relieve the pain and bloating by doing an anal catheter. They will insert a small tube into your anus to release the built up gas. While you may experience discomfort, this procedure will not hurt. Usually, medical professionals fast patients after surgery until they've passed gas. This means that you cannot eat until after you've passed gas. However, early feeding, or consuming clear liquids or a light meal 24 to 48 hours after surgery, might encourage normal bowel function. If you haven't passed gas yet, ask your doctor if early feeding might be beneficial. In most cases, the doctor will require that you continue to fast. It takes time for your digestive system to return to normal, so don't strain or force gas or a bowel movement. When you do begin passing gas and going to the bathroom, don't push yourself to go. Depending on the location of your surgical site, straining could cause damage. Your doctor might recommend a stool softener or mild laxative to make it easier to go to the bathroom. Take these and any other medications as directed.

Summary: Walk around as soon as possible. Rub your abdominal area. Try light leg and trunk exercises. Chew sugar-free gum at least 3 times per day. Drink a cup of caffeinated coffee daily. Agree to an anal catheter if your doctor recommends it. Talk to your doctor about early feeding. Avoid straining when you pass gas or have a bowel movement.

When you drink around your husband, it may make it much more difficult for him to quit. Avoid consuming alcohol in the presence of your husband at all costs. Instead, attend non-alcoholic social events. Request family or friend get-togethers to be sober occasions. You may need to change social plans or social groups a bit. Instead of going to bars or sipping on wine with friends, have more game nights or movie nights. Engage in activities that don't typically serve alcohol. Groups like Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) exist to help support people struggling with alcoholism. Members stress the importance of senior members supporting the newer people to the group by providing support and mentorship. Check out http://www.aa.org to see if there is a chapter near you. You more than anyone else know how hard it is to live with an alcoholic husband. It can be hard to feel like you have to keep the house and family together on your own with little or no help of your husband. It can be a relief to share your frustrations with other people who know exactly what it feels like. They can also support you and give you advice on how to cope, and how they got through the tough times. Al-Anon (http://al-anon.org/) is a nationally recognized support group that offers family support to those who have a family member who is an alcoholic. If your husband is hesitant to get his own therapy, mention that getting therapy together would be helpful to both of you, or that you want family therapy. A therapist can help with treatment and recovery, and provide support to both you and your husband throughout the process. You can obtain a referral through your primary care physician or through your insurance provider. You may want to seek out a therapist who specializes in addiction or alcoholism. Therapy may include dealing with underlying causes of addiction, working through stressors in a more positive way, and may also include medication. A treatment center is beneficial for more intense alcoholism or when alcoholism is coupled with a psychiatric diagnosis (such as depression or anxiety) or a medical diagnosis. Programs exist through inpatient and outpatient treatment, which may vary based on your insurance coverage. Choose the level of care most appropriate for your your family and your husband. If your husband has experienced severe stress or trauma or has a psychiatric illness, a treatment center may be better suited than outpatient weekly therapy. Enact a plan to handle any potential relapse. It's common for someone who struggles with alcoholism to feel tempted or to relapse during recovery. Agree upon a plan with your husband and/our his treatment team to have a plan ready to go if your husband relapses. This may include removing him from the situation or calling his therapist or mentor. When your husband does engage in treatment and makes growth, acknowledge each step that is taken. If you see him making an effort, praise it. Find all the good things he is doing and make sure he knows that you recognize the good work he is doing. Celebrate even the smallest steps forward. Be your husband's cheerleader and let him know you're behind him all the way.

Summary: Avoid drinking around your husband. Ask him to check out local support groups. Go to a family support group for yourself. Consider therapy together. Ask him to check out a treatment center. Prepare for him to relapse. Be supportive to your husband.

Use a coaxial cable to make this connection, ensure that there is a little slack in the cable so that there is no tension on the connectors. You can use the HDMI cable that came with the box, or any other HDMI cable. Make note of the HDMI port that you use on your TV so that you can easily switch to it later. Many Comcast cable boxes have multiple HDMI ports. Make sure you're using the HDMI Out port on the box and not the HDMI Input ports. If you don't have an HDMI port on your TV, you can use a coax cable to connect the "To TV/RF Out" port to your TV's coax port. This will not result in high definition image. Plug it in to the Power connector on the back of the box. If you connected the box to an HDMI port on your TV, switch to the HDMI input that matches that port. If you connected the box using coax cable, switch to channel 3 or 4. If you have multiple TVs and have active coax outlets, you can use digital adapters to connect your cable to additional TVs. Each adapter will need its own coax wall outlet. Connecting a digital adapter is pretty much the same as a regular cable box. Use a coax cable to attach it to the wall outlet, and HDMI or coax cable to connect the adapter to the TV, and then connect the power adapter. Make sure all of your digital adapters are connected and powered on before starting the activation process.
Summary: Connect the "Cable In/RF In" connection to the cable wall outlet. Connect the "HDMI to TV" port on the cable box to the HDMI port on your TV. Connect the power adapter to the wall outlet. Switch your TV to the correct input. Connect any additional digital adapters.