Well it has been 9 days and I am doing well. My revision surgery from Lap to DS ended up being open because of  2 previous open surgeries from colon cancer almost 7 years ago. Way too much scar tissue for a lap surgery. 

For whatever reason a leak test could not be scheduled on a weekend so I had to chew ice chips from surgery on a Friday till following Monday leak test.  My first clear liquid meal from the hospital was a banana and a turkey sandwich and choc milk… LOL…   so I ended up with hot tea from the nurses till broth later on for dinner.  

So I stayed in the hospital till Weds because I needed to pass gas before I could go home.  

My staples are doing well, cept for the one at my belly button, which has popped out. I had my neighbor take a look yesterday and she is a surgical nurse and said all looked normal and healing just fine. Whew ! I get them out when I go back on this weds.  

Since Weds I have had diarrhea… 10+ times a day. I chatted with Starbelly here online and we figured it was milk products. So yesterday I cut out all dairy (yogurt, shakes, cottage cheese) and all stopped almost immed. Since all my shakes and bullets are whey --- I am guessing they will be a problem too. I got some lactaid today and will try that by adding something new each day.  

So here I am now. I am sleeping on my side well and actually slept the past 2 nights since was not up pooing. I had gained 22 pounds in the hospital because they did not give me my diuretic (HCTZ) for blood pressure.
 
So since I have been home I have lost that weight plus 10. 
  

yea --- I have my DS planned for Friday -----5 days from now !  Yes I am nervous, but I trust Dr. Elariny.  I have had major wide open tummy surgeries before --- in fact 3, because of colon cancer when I was 41, so I know all about recovering from surgery. So am praying this one I will recover as welll as I have on the past.

Had my 4th fill (5 weeks ago) and restriction has finally come and stayed.  Has opened up a bit, but still eating much less !  

Richmond Surgical likes to see you at every other fill so saw them last week and since I am hungry at 4 hrs after meals, they want me to come back for another fill !  

The next day, I received a call from the main doctor (the doc who agreed to take me on as a patient even though he did not operate on me) and he called to say that he saw I was in for a visit the day before - but he did not get a chance to see me and was just calling to talk to me in person to see how I was doing !  I Was SOOOOO impressed that he did that !  Way Impressed !  So I am very pleased to have a surgeon who cares about his patients and believes in the patients as well as the lapband and how it works.!

Later Folks !
K

I had my 3rd fill  3 days ago and I can tell you that today 3 mos after surgery - I actually felt like I had a band!!  Could only eat half of my scrambled eggs this morning !!  I received 2 more cc's .  so I now have approx 6.4 in the band.  They did it under fluro standing up (so as to accurately see how fast the barium goes down).  I was really impressed !  Much different then my old surgeon's office, but then again my new doc belieaves in the lap band procedure as well as his patients.  I have to drive further - but is totally worth the trip.  The amount of saline that was  withdrawn was not the amount that was suppose to be in there and I was told that the VG band loses a cc or so here n there.  Does not make sense to me - so am just going on faith.  Anyway you look at it - I have 2 more cc's when I left the office than when I arrived, and for now it is working. YEA !!