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Username: welderwow
Location: Livonia, NY, USA
Member Since: 12/14/2007
BMI: 36.6
Post Op
Surgery Type: RNY (07/01/08)
Surgeon: William O'Malley, M.D.

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Not nervous anymore, now working on healing!!! SSSOOOO looking forward to returning to the real world and having a life where I can get out and do things. I think I became a huge hermit for a long while. I will be interested to see where I am at a year from now! Oh and the clothes in my closet will be so much less! I have slowly built up an arsenal of clothing for a variety of sizes. I am hoping the sizes I need next year can not be found in my closet, although I am sure many of the shirts will still fit! Anyway thank you to everyones profiles I have read and found support in to get me to this point!

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7\21\08
on July 21, 2008 1:29 pm

Well it has been a bit hard for me the last week. I went back to work and even though it is only half days for summer, it about kicked my butt! I was wore out all week last week would get home around 1:00 sleep a couple hours and then up for a little while and then back to bed by 9:00. Sleeping is still not comfortable, hard to sleep on my side, and deffinantly not my stomach, I have to sleep on my back with a pillow under my legs still.
The last couple days I have had an upset stomach. Everything is going straight through me. Hard to go anywhere, not sure what I ate or what did it. It has been a bit rough though.
Walking has helped me a lot, it makes me feel better and keeps my energy up. I feel like I have been dragging a bit.
I am very emotional, I cry all the time, over just about anything.
I have lost more, I am down to 202 this morning.
Protein shakes are still a little hard for me to drink. I have found a gym that makes them from scratch and they are much better than the ready to drink ones. I can't drink a whole one at a time, but I stop on the way home from work every day and get one. Then sip for the 40 min. drive home. When school starts back up, I think I will try doing one at lunch and one after school, that will be my two a day.
I am going to have to invest in some powder and do my own shakes for the time I am not in school and weekends!
I can honestly say I am totally sick of pureed food. It is killing me. Soups are my best friend especially now that I am backing off of solids again.
It really is a roller coaster ride.

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7\9\08
on July 9, 2008 11:17 am

Well here I am again, 9 days out from surgery, had my first follow up appt. yesterday. Everything went well. I had a great visit. They were very nice and let me move on to pureed foods. I came home and had tuna and mayo, pureed, with seasoning, it was just like eating a tuna salad. I liked it!! I then had mashed potatos and fish for dinner, it was fine as well. By the end of the night I had a VERY full feeling!
OK lets back up. I am still sleeping alot, I finally slept in my bed about 6 days out from surgery and then not so comfortably. I had to struggle to still get up and down. I was walking, but uncomfortably. Monday 7 days out I did too much and paid for it the next day. I was still doing the stairs one foot at a time until this morning.
The first week I felt hungry all the time, now that I have gone to pureed food, I don't have that feeling, now I just feel like I need to go the bathroom and can not. Im sure it will all be fine in the end. Drinking apple juice and backing off the food for a while. I slept great for the first time last night, only woke up a couple times and did not have to get up, even for pain killers. I have only taken tylenol today so I have been awake a little more than other days. I will be going to the store in the morning, that will be fun to find all kinds of new things to eat. This is an advanture all the way around! I ordered a bunch of new cookbooks from Amazon, so it will be fun to get them and start looking at some of the new things we can eat. My son is going to Culinary camp this summer so it is going to be wonderful to explore some great new eating habits together. I am very lucky that he likes many things that kids his age don't like fish, he loves it and if it looks good he will at least try it! Well I will check back in, talk to everyone soon!

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7/5/08
on July 5, 2008 1:02 pm

Hi everyone, I am 5 days out from surgery. I had it on July 1st. I am still in the recoup section. I think I overdid it the first day out of surgery and pulled a stomach muscle. It seems to still be my biggest problem. I am up and walking around though and food seems to be staying down fine and neusea doesn't seem to be too bad. I am so not hungry though and have to force myself to eat and then after only a couple of sips I am feeling very full. Bananas look very yummy to me right now, and as someone else said in a post, an egg sounds absolutely wonderful, but I don't want to cause any damage, so I think I will be fine waiting. I sleep a lot right now, but did run myself into the ground before surgery as I had emergency gallbladder surgery two weeks before on June 16th (it didn't want to wait for the 1st) and then I moved my whole house the weekend before surgery.
I wouldn't recommend the doing way to much before. I think it would have been easier if I had been a bit more rested. Overall I happy with how things are going and missing the 4th for a whole new outlook on life will be OK for this year!! I can not wait until the party next year though!!! I have never been a drinker, but I have always liked the parties and it will be a lot of fun in a brand new body!!

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