claud_nyne
2 weeks out!!
Jun 18, 2008
well...here i am...feeling great! everything is getting so much easier. im in hardly any pain. im still having trouble getting in all the required water but im sure that will get better to. ive lost 16 lbs in 2 weeks. not bad if you ask me. originally i thought i had lost 22 but the scale i was using was one of those old ones where the little thing rotates. i didnt trust that thing at all so i went and bought a new digital one. 
according to the new one ive only lost 16 lbs. i shouldnt complain cause i think we all know that those are 16 lbs that i would not have lost without the surgery. AND...if by some miracle i had lost them...it would NOT have been in two weeks. 16 lbs is awesome. people are already telling me that they can see the loss. im loving this surgery!
according to the new one ive only lost 16 lbs. i shouldnt complain cause i think we all know that those are 16 lbs that i would not have lost without the surgery. AND...if by some miracle i had lost them...it would NOT have been in two weeks. 16 lbs is awesome. people are already telling me that they can see the loss. im loving this surgery!
5 days post-op
Jun 08, 2008
well im home!
and feeling awesome! 
it went great and i have an appointment in two weeks. i didnt have my surgery with dr. patel afterall. it was still with the weightwise program but dr gonzalez performed the surgery. first they told me that it would be the two of them working together (from my understanding they usually work together) so i met him and he seemed awesome. AT THE LAST MINUTE...they tell me that it will be only be dr. gonzalez and some other assisting surgeon. well since i had already met dr. gonzalez (and i liked him...cute to if i may add) i went ahead with it. i have to admit i was a liitle bothered but i continued. like i said, everything went great. the pain was there but i can handle it. i think the scariest part was that i was having pain when i drank anything. i was told it was due to the swelling. i was afraid of leaving the hospital and becoming dehydrated or something...just me being paranoid....by now its pretty much gone. i can drink with hardly any pain. the only pain left is gas that i still have. its embarrassing to say but i wish i could just take a GIANT fart or a GIANT burp....but i cant. slowly but surely im burping it out..usually after some sips of water. the other pain left is in my abdomen but it just feels like i just finished a major ab workout. i was given some pain medication and some for the nausea. i really dont need the pain medication and i havent even tried the nausea one.
uh...what else can i tell you...i have seven little incisions...i know it seems like a lot. i didnt think it would be that many but whatever. the biggest is about an inch long which is where they removed the stomach from. the rest are probably a little less that half an inch or smaller. HARDLY any brusing but i dont bruise easily...oh and let me tell you...i had my surgery at foundation bariatric hospital which is right next to dr. patel's office and the care was amazing. no complaints what-so-ever. they treated me like a queen. they took time to make conversation with me...even my parents were impressed by the hospital.
well...im going on and on. so far...i have no regrets not even with the pain...hopefully that thought continues. i remember waking up and thinking...."OMG i did it"....second thought was "ouch." i never thought it would actually happen...but here i am.
if anyone has any questions...please ask...i know how helpful this website has been to me and all i can do in return is help someone else....
and feeling awesome! it went great and i have an appointment in two weeks. i didnt have my surgery with dr. patel afterall. it was still with the weightwise program but dr gonzalez performed the surgery. first they told me that it would be the two of them working together (from my understanding they usually work together) so i met him and he seemed awesome. AT THE LAST MINUTE...they tell me that it will be only be dr. gonzalez and some other assisting surgeon. well since i had already met dr. gonzalez (and i liked him...cute to if i may add) i went ahead with it. i have to admit i was a liitle bothered but i continued. like i said, everything went great. the pain was there but i can handle it. i think the scariest part was that i was having pain when i drank anything. i was told it was due to the swelling. i was afraid of leaving the hospital and becoming dehydrated or something...just me being paranoid....by now its pretty much gone. i can drink with hardly any pain. the only pain left is gas that i still have. its embarrassing to say but i wish i could just take a GIANT fart or a GIANT burp....but i cant. slowly but surely im burping it out..usually after some sips of water. the other pain left is in my abdomen but it just feels like i just finished a major ab workout. i was given some pain medication and some for the nausea. i really dont need the pain medication and i havent even tried the nausea one. uh...what else can i tell you...i have seven little incisions...i know it seems like a lot. i didnt think it would be that many but whatever. the biggest is about an inch long which is where they removed the stomach from. the rest are probably a little less that half an inch or smaller. HARDLY any brusing but i dont bruise easily...oh and let me tell you...i had my surgery at foundation bariatric hospital which is right next to dr. patel's office and the care was amazing. no complaints what-so-ever. they treated me like a queen. they took time to make conversation with me...even my parents were impressed by the hospital.
well...im going on and on. so far...i have no regrets not even with the pain...hopefully that thought continues. i remember waking up and thinking...."OMG i did it"....second thought was "ouch." i never thought it would actually happen...but here i am.
if anyone has any questions...please ask...i know how helpful this website has been to me and all i can do in return is help someone else....
