First post-op appointment!

Aug 27, 2011

I had my first post-op appointment yesterday.  Doc told me that i was doing well.   I was down to 234 today!  I remember weighing before i left the hospital and the scale showed 245 which was a little disppointing at the time.  But then i had to remember that i was pumped full of fluids from the IV all week.  So taking that into account i was pleased with the weight today.  So things have been going pretty well.  Not as tired each day as i have been.  Yesterday I hung out with my daughter all day.  We went all over town.  I felt good most of the day but I did have pressure on my left side most of the day.  I have constantly had this pressure near my drain site.  I asked  the Doc about it and he said it was still gas.  Ummm, I guess   Whatever it is, I will be glad when it goes away.  I also keep getting this sharp pain near my sternum.  I think its the area where the diaghram is.  I usually feel the pain when i have been laying down and either roll over or get up.  Anyway, my daughter and I were out all day and it was not planned that way, it just happened to work out that way.  I definitiley did not get all of my protein in yesterday.  :(  I ate some greek yogurt for the first time and was not impressed.  We should have stopped by a gorcery store so that i could have gotten a powerr shake - but they are never cold when you buy them out of the store.  Anyway - no excuse.  Of course while we were out my daughter got hungry so we tried to find someplace to eat that would have some type of soup that i could handle.  We decided on PF Changs and I ordered a cup of the Egg Drop soup so that I could eat the broth.  Our server was really sweet.  I told her that I just had bariatric surgery and wanted some soup that didn't have to many ingredients.  First she bought me the egg drop soup but it had way to much stuff in it and i couldn't eat around it.  Then she suggested the Won Ton soup.  When she bought that to me, she even strained it for me so that I didn't get any of the added ingresients in my cup of soup.  It was wonderful.  Of course when you order a bowl of soup, the bowl is as big as a cooking pot!  But she packaged up the rest of it for me to bring home.  I can eat off of this soup for the next 2 weeks!  But it really felt good to be able to go out to a real restaurant and actually find something on the menu that I could actually eat at this stage.  My daughter kept laughing at me and told me that I was absolutley giddy!    I even told the server that I loved her!!!  She was so nice and went out of her way to make me feel special.  I really did appreciate that.  In the future, I need to be prepared when I go out to have a refrigerator pack or my lunchbox with some type of protein in it.  Just in case.  We had only planned to go one place yesterday but ended up beingout from 10 am to 7 pm.  Whew!! Long day!  It was a good day though and I really enjoyed getting out of the house.  My husband never wants to go anywhere.  He goes to work and then comes home and goes into his man cave.  He will pop his head in every couple of hours and just ask how I am doing, but before I can even tell him, he is back in the man cave.  That aspect of this journey has been very lonely.    He feels like he is supporting me and staying out of my way, but I have told him that I wish wewould sit down and watch a movei together or just talk - anything!  He just doesn't get it.  My daughter moved into her own apartment several weeks ago and she works long hours, so I can't bother her all the time.  I'm trying not to get depressed, but i have to find something to do with my time.  I still have one more week before i go back to work.  I had thought about going back to work early, but I don't even want to deal with the job yet.  I work hard and lots of hours and it was time for a break,so I want to take this break and relax.  I just need to find a way to spend my time.  

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