1 week out -- some musings

Jun 06, 2011

Surgery was June 1, and as far as I can tell was absolutely textbook. Shoulder pain from the gas was sharper than expected, but fortunately only lasted a couple of days. Incision pain has eased considerably, to the point that I don't take any pain meds at all, and wasn't fazed by a sneezing fit yesterday (coughing/sneezing/yawning are the BANES of post-op abdominal surgery!).

I've been experiencing many things that others have written about -- difficulty in getting everything in, realization that I've lost my "best friend", wondering if my life will ever get back to *normal*, etc. -- but have been able to deal with it all because of what I've read here on OH. Knowing what to expect makes a HUGE difference! 

I'm curious, though, if I will experience what folks have written about as far as changes in how others interact with you (I've read where people are astonished at how others now smile/speak/engage with them when they hadn't before). I'm questioning whether I will experience this because, since I was laid off the week before surgery, I won't be going back into the same environment I had been in for the last 11 years, and so won't have a basis for comparison. But as someone wrote, is it really a change in others because they're finally noticing "us" rather than the flab, or is it a change in US because of new-found confidence?

Now I'm just impatient/anxious to get past the drugery of post-op liquids and lack of energy, and on to My Life 2.0!


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