Blairsara,
It is good to see you posting! I think the Miralax thing is a good idea - it doesn't make things go the other way - if you get what I mean.
This will take baby steps at a time. You should notice improvements over time. Good advice that was given to me after surgery was to not compare improvements on a daily basis - but compare improvements on a weekly basis. This helped a lot because after the first 2 weeks to a month out from surgery, my days were blending together and hard to tell if I was improving. But comparing one week to the next was dramatic.
I looked at the pics of Dr Apostle....Assuming that Maria would "rate" him a 9 or 10 on a scale of 1-10. I would give him a 7...