8 Months have come & gone! on May 22, 2009 6:20 am
Wow, time flies when your having fun! Since my last entry I have moved back to Sun City West, Arizona. Our 1 bedroom condo never sold so we just moved back in and I am so glad becauswe being here where it is sunny and dry heat... helped me to start working out and excercising daily to continue with my new lease on life. All is well with my Lap-RNY surgery... I did wind up in the hospital my 3'rd week out, with a bleeding ulcer located in my small intestine, close to where my pouch is connected. 3 days and 2 nights later I went home and have had "Thank God" no other complications. I am on Nexium and only 1 of the 7 prescriptions I was taking before my RNY. My weight loss has been slow but steady... I was considered a light weight and set my weight loss goal at 185 pounds from 275...
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UP-Date on my New Life Adventure! on September 25, 2008 9:31 am
9/17/08
Had a very succesful Lap RNY with NO complications. Only spent 1 night in the hospital... Dr. Roye with the grace of God has given me a new lease on life.
9/22/08
Today is the better of all days since I came home. I still have this drain in me... it's called a Jackson Pratt (JP) drain... it's a rubber tube connected to me inside and the fluids drain via suction into a little football shaped bulb, that I periodically have to drain. Years ago they did not do this for my type of surgery and that's why allot of patients had complications from infections etc. I can take a shower as of day 2 and can swallow all my pills... something I wasn't sure I could do, so all is good. I am just having to train myself to consume the required fluids to help my body heal and nourish. I am not hungry at all. I weighed myself this morning... I weighed 251.5. A few days ago I was saying this surgery is not for wimps because the pain... coughing really hurt, I needed to cough to clear my lungs. I am on liquid Vicodan 3 teaspoons every 4 hours... I have my cell phone alarm clock set for this... Even deep breathing hurts, but today the pains are not painful, they are soreness. I can straighten out my body now...I had to sleep on my recliner since I came home... too painful to lie flat on a bed and then try to get up and out of bed...Tonight I try my bed! One has to be able to get to the bathroom very fast... the most painful part of my surgery is trying to pass the gas they used to pump up your stomach so they could do the surgery. This hurts when it starts rumbling and bumping into everything that was moved and repaired during the procedure. Then if you try to pass the gas yourself, accidents and a mess happen, you have to let the gas expel itself, then no mess..LOL! I feel very weak, which is expected with GBS (gastric bypass surgery). My diabetic meds are cut back, am only taking 2 - 5 mgs Glyburide... one in the am & 1 in the pm. Stopped the other 2 diabetic meds. I am monitoring my glucose, and will probably be able to stop the Glyburide as well, soon. I have an appointment with my surgeon on Tuesday at 2 pm... to remove my JP drain... Yay!!! All the prayers that have been prayed for me are really working. God is so good and must have plans for me in our parish, because I have had no complications, absolutely no problems at all. I am not planning to get out and get committed to anything... till I am getting all my fluids in and my strength comes back. I might start walking here around the house... but that's it for now.
9/25/08
My nurse (Gary) is doing great... he likes it now that he can eat whenever he wants too and eat what he wants to eat... not what I fixed...LOL! He's back on track with his Atkins's lifestyle of eating and his glucose readings are good... his blood work came back and his A1c was a 6.0.... this is where diabetics want to be! As for myself... all went well Tuesday... went to Sam's to gas up and a little shopping before my 1 pm Dr. appt. Rode the electric cart so I wouldn't get tired. Then to Innovative Nutrition to return all the protein Bullets and Unjury drinks that would gag a maggot... and exchanged them all for protein soy or whey powders... much more tolerable on my new pouch! Then the doc pulled the 2 foot tube out of my belly and we ditched the JP drain... LOL! That sucker might not have had that long a tube but quoting Gary "Dr Roye grabbed hold of it and pulled the length of his arm and then let go, grabbed hold again and pulled till it was out!" It didn't hurt, but sure felt weird coming out! Went shopping at United on the way home to buy cream soups cause my Doc put me on Phase 2 of eating... this is the next stage of eating, I was on Phase 1, clear liquids (if you can see a light thru it) you can have it! Full Liquids stage is soups that are strained, Protein shakes made with 1% milk etc. Phase 3 will be Pureed foods... Probably when I see my Doc in three weeks. Doc wouldn't refill my liquid Vicodan... said I need to take Liquid Tylenol from here on for pain! Wednesday was not too great.... the drugs wore off... 30 hours of Morphine via drip in hospital, then 3 teaspoons of Vicodan every 4 hours... I set alarms for these doses every 4 hours (found a good use for our unused cells, they have great alarms) and never missed a dose night and day! Well Wednesday I went thru withdrawal symptoms... I felt every movement the surgeon made, every push and nudge he did to my innards, I felt the stomach I no longer used and some new and strange feeling from my new pouch (my tool)... just kidding... I did feel very weak, clammy and just not as good as I had been feeling. But today is a new day... the pains are really gone... it's more a discomfort and soreness. Although I still can't sleep in bed... I tried again last night and rolled over to my left side, using pillows for support against my tummy, but woke up feeling pains so back on my back and then back to my recliner till I can actually lay on either side without feeling like I shifted my innards to the opposite side...LOL! I am doing well with my fluids intake... this is why my doc moved me up to full liquids. When one eats strictly fluids, our bodies will process strictly fluids... which at the present time has caused a few embarrassing moments for me. So due to this natural process of our human anatomy... I will be keeping a low profile and not committing to anything outside of home and my personal toilet for awhile... I'm too young to have to start wearing depends... LOL! I weighed 247 pounds at the docs office (was 265 the last time most of you saw me)... don't plan to weigh myself till my next doc appointment on 10-14, this is something I decided. I hope I didn't gross you out but just thought I'd share my experiences with this life altering change I opted for. My surgeon Dr. Roye has given me a new leash on life, more like a second chance at life... I'm not blowing it this time by eating wrong... I have the TOOL my new 2 oz stomach! Now I must share who all the credit must go to for my having this surgery, having a successful surgery with NO complications, with support from my family (especially my hubby, my nurse Michelle) and friends... I owe this all to Our Heavenly Father, who has given me this chance to be of more service to Him as I gain my strength and am able to return this blessing by ministering at church! We have an awesome God... I Love You Jesus!! Thank you all for letting me share my adventure with you and for all your many prayers and may Our Lord Bless you and all your loved one!
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MEETING DR. ROYE, JR ON FRIDAY 8-15 @ 10 AM! on August 10, 2008 7:38 am
8/10/08
Aetna has finally got their update on Dr. Roye's new location to Amarillo from Waxahachie and he is in their Network now. So I get to meet him this coming Friday August 15th at 10 am. All my tests are done with the 4 required specialists Aetna required. If Dr. Roye accepts me as his patient… then they will submit all my paper work to Aetna and God willing I am approved for Lap RNY… I’ll know the surgery date this Friday…( I hope ) hooray!!!!
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