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Hi Everyone:

I just returned back from Bathurst this evening.  I was sleeved on Thursday.  So glad that I read so many of the posts here on the website so I knew what to expect.  Of course each person has their own individual experiences but overall there was really nothing that I was no prepared for.  I had no surprises. It is surgery so I am not going to candy coat it ... there is discomfort and pain but not to the extent that I expected. There were a couple of days that I felt like I was in a bad car accident because literally every muscle in my body ached but that subsided.  

I must say that Dr. Savoie and the team of nurses and staff at the Bathurst hospital were exceptional in every way.  They could not have been better. 

They told my worried husband that the surgery would take two hours and mine took much less.  I was out of recovery sooner than both of us thought. 

I am not sure if anyone else can state the same but for me I am so awed by the fact that I am  not hungry at all.  I have zero (0) appetite.  I have to literally force myself to drink fluids and consume anything.  This may be due to the gas I still have but  I have no insatiable stirring in my gut to eat like I had.  I will say that sipping has come very natural to me and I am not hating it.  Sipping makes me feel good. I still have no idea where my new saturation point is.

Any advice I can give to future patients is to move as soon as you can.  I was sick from the anestethics (I always am no matter what they do - ie Gravol etc...) but I was determined to get myself up and walk to the bathroom as soon as I could and as many times as I could.  I wanted those compression stockings off my legs as well.  I literally ended up walking the floor of the hospital night and day.  I think I wore a path in the floor. The nurses were sick of seeing me. I was so ready to go home.  I did the happy dance when I was discharged.  I was bored out of my skull.

I am petrified because I have not gone # 2 yet and have had no bowel movement in over a week. I have had some nasty rumblings and gas in my lower section which are painful and not pleasant so I have no idea what will happen.  Not sure if I will end up exploding. 

Now I just need to work this sleeve.