BrasilianRain
Day 1 - PO Lap-Band Surgery
Feb 25, 2009
Yesterday, I had the Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Band at the Sentara Careplex at about 9am in Hampton, Virginia with Dr. Thomas Clark from the Weight Loss Surgery Center. Let me go through the aftermath...Waking up from the surgery was strange... at points I was awake, but couldn't get my body to respond, and I didn't have my glasses so I felt blind. The surgery went well, except I was told I had a fatty liver (which I expected) and an hiatal hernia (which I did not expect at all - I swear I had no pain from it at all). I felt very disoriented, but I was still alert.
By the time I got home, I took a 2 hour nap, but then I woke up... now this is the strange part... after my nap, I was wide awake and full of energy! I felt like my body was working at 90% which was unlike my sister and other people's experiences I read about after surgery. I was walking around the house, up-and-down the stairs, but when my mother caught me she scolded me a bit, and then I had to lay down --- God Bless Mommies. My mother told me to take the Percocet the doctor had prescribed for me, but I genuinely didn't need it at the time.
About 5 hours later, the pain started to kick in. I had a tiny headache, a sore throat, a little bit of abdominal muscle pain, was hungry (which surprised me), and the most imporant part, I had a whole bunch of gas bubbles in my belly. I took the Percocet, and I felt nothing. So, I took another just to see if it might make the pain go away... nothing. I decided to just go to bed instead of tolerating the pain. I slept just fine.
It's now 6am, and I'm feeling much better. My headache is about gone as well as my sore throat, the ab pain and the gas is still swimming around my belly, and I can't seem to burp or pass gas right now. I'm gonna try to take a walk later today to see if that helps at all - just a little short one around the neighborhood.
OH! I got on the scale, and I've lost 4 lbs, but I think that's moreso due to urinating out the liquids they gave me for the surgery than it really has anything to do with real fat weight loss.
