jobell2355
5 Days Post-Op & Comfortably Numb
Mar 01, 2009
I am now 5 days post-op and trying to wrap my head around what has just happened. I don't care how many books you read, websites you subscribe to & other Bypass patients you talk to, you cannot be fully prepared for how you will feel the days just after your surgery. At least I have found that to be true for me. I have 4 gals in my office and a best friend just down the street from me who had RNY & told me everything from soup to nuts. I had all you wonderful people on OH who have answered so many of my questions. I read "Before & After Weight Loss Surgery", "What to Eat After Weight Loss Surgery", my doctors manual from cover to cover and everything in between and I still find myself somewhat lost right now.It is so hard to describe what I am feeling. I am neither sorry I did it or glad I did it...yet. I am just a bit numb. I am trying to figure it all out. How to drink 60 oz. of fluid a day so that I won't have leg cramps (which I have) or get dehydrated. I would never have thought it would be such a chore. How hard could it be right? Well in order to get it all in I am finding that timing is everything. And it is hard not to worry about what I am choosing to eat (even if it is straight from the handbook) and if I will be able to tell that I have had enough so that I don't get sick and don't hurt my oh so precious new pouch.
So I keep telling myself sip, sip, sip and I do what I can to get in the protein and meals. I am having 3 meals a day but have not been very hungry and am sure I am not eating enough. Realistically I know that this is just the beginning and that it will get easier. I am just feeling really strange right now. I have been eating & behaving in a certain way for 40+ years and now I am totally changing that behavior. I thought I was ready for this and I hope I was right. I want to be in that overjoyed place that my coworkers & friend who are a year or 2 post-op are but for now I am 5 days post-op & comfortably numb!
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About Me
Destin, FL
Location
28.3
BMI
Surgery
02/26/2009
Surgery Date
Oct 02, 2008
Member Since
Before & After
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