Day 10 Post-op-- First Post-op checkup!

Jun 18, 2012

Down 13 pounds from surgery day!

I got to speak to some ladies today about my surgery experience.  It was nice to be able to reassure others, when I myself was in need of reassurance just a week and a half ago.

When I was talking to them, I came up with a pretty concise way to explain the effect the sleeve has had on my eating habits.  It's like brain surgery via the stomach.  The sleeve talks to my brain, but the brain can't talk back anymore!

I'm astonished that I have cravings for food in the abstract now.  For example, a steaming pizza in a commercial--yum!  A piece of pizza on my plate, cut up into little pieces, chewed for 1 minute every bite, swallowed, and processed by my sleeve suddenly doesn't sound so yum!  Also, when you can only hold 8 Tbsp of liquid at a time, you kind of start to wonder how you'll ever be comfortable keeping anything more down!

My bandages came off today, and my incisions look great, so that's to the good.  I got some free soy milk from my mother in law's food gatherer's, and I'm going to use it in my shakes because that badarse soy milk has 11g of protein per serving!

Tomorrow and Wednesday is going to be insanely hot, like 96*, so we're going to huddle under the A/C, but after that I hope we'll be able to start hanging out by the pool.  I can't wait to swim!  I have to wait three weeks from my surgery date, which would be the 29th of this month and it can't come soon enough!

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