colsan
1st thoughts
Mar 16, 2010
Hi my 1st post. Last thurs i had my surgury. At 6:00am i weighed in at 301.9. Surgury at 11:30 went well Dr Klassen and his team were great. My wife Sandra came to see me after but i was pretty groggy and sleepy. Over the next few days before i came home on Sunday I only experienced pain the 1st nite along with some nausia. From there it was a progression of sipping water-then stage 2 apple juice-walking in the hall often-getting the cafeter out lol-getting the iv out yea and more walking and apple juice.Pain-not really more just uncomfortable with a little sensation of unnatural fullness with nausia when i drank my fluids. The doctors and nurses were so good. Dr. Klassen is a teaching doc so it was quite a team of residents, interns etc. He told me it had gone really well and that the scar tissue from my old emergency gall bladder op hadn't been an issue. Home on Sunday i had my 1st protein shake (Premier from Costco-pre-mixed-good tasting with no after taste-30 grams of protein).Even tho i sipped it i felt bloated beyond belief and nausous. Had another before sleep both going through me pretty quickly. Monday I started with another shake while my wife went off to work-my 15 yr old son asleep on his march break week. it left me feeling bad so i went back to water only. Around noon i wanted something so i tried a glass of 2% milk that Sandra had suggested. It tasted great! and felt great! I had another and another-spaced out of course and finally went mixed half and half with the Premier shake. That was good too. From there felt better and stronger-did 2 little outings to libray etc and did a little walking.This morning St. patrick's Day I weighed in at 292 lbs and felt good and am looking ahead with some zest.
