4th day Post-Op...

Mar 27, 2011

and I STILL can't believe I'm on the otherside. I'm now on the losers bench... POST OP. Its so weird and finally sinking in. So today I feel little to no pain. I've been sipping, walking and resting. I haven't weighed myself yet, I'm waiting for my post-op meeting with my surgeon on the 8th of April. I want to be surprised.

Planning on going to my support meeting coming up on April 4th. It should be nice to meet people in my area who are going to go through or are or have been going through the same thing I am. I'm just very HAPPY and feel very lucky that everything is going smoothly.

My operation took two hours because of how LARGE my stomach was. lol. I always knew I had a huge stomach but seeing it in the photos and having them tell me shocked me anyways.lol No wonder I was AWAYS hungry and could never keep off the weight. I had my surgeon, Dr. Doraiswamy and Dr. Lamar who BOTH worked on me. Dr. Lamar is part of the 3 surgeons at my Bariatric center and postponed his surgery to help my surgeon out. I was thankful that I had two amazing surgeons working on me.

1st day was... painful.
                      The gas pain and fighting the anesthetic was the worst.
2nd day was... much better
                      I was weak but could do things by myself, like walk, go to the restroom. I was frustrated because no matter how hard I tried I couldn't get enough liquids in. If I drank too much, I would feel so full and my tiny tummy would be stuborn and not process it, just let it sit in me making me feel nausious.
3rd day was... Amazing
                      My tiny tummy was working with me and I could reach my 4oz an hour so I could come home.
4th day... I'm an incadecently happy.

I'm going to start working on my Hospital Vlog tomorrow when everyones at work and school and the "good" computers available. lol. My sisters and momma took lots of pix and video. It should be very informative and fun.

All pre-ops... Its going to happen
All post-ops... you truly INSPIRE me everyday

Take Care
Kristen

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