One week post-op....

Jun 02, 2009

...and I'm feeling GREAT!

I'm completely off my pain meds (in fact, the codene was making me have nightmares, so I took a little of my sons infant tylenol last night and it did the trick!), I've been getting out and walking around, it feel good to walk. I am a little weak and dizzy when I get up and down from a chair or bed. I've had my mom (who's a nurse) check my BP, it ws normal, so I'm thinking it might be the fact that I'm only having clear liquids. I go to see the surgeon tomorrow to remove my drain (YAYYYYY!!) and hopefully he'll pass me to the full liquid stage. I so want protein shakes again, and pudding, and custard...all the stuff they said I can have I want! I can barely stomach jello anymore....its just too sweet for me now.

I've been doing good with getting my liquids in, but it takes me a long time to get down even 8oz. So 60 in a day is some work, but I'm hydrated and feeling full all the time.My only two complaints so far is when I got home, my calves started hurting really badly, like I had just ran a marathon. That has since subsided! The other complaint is that I have some pain in my left side, which usually comes on at night. Weird. Gonna ask the Dr. about it tomorrow.

So my big news is that I'm offically a week out, and the scale is down 12 lbs as of this morning!!! I couldn't believe it. 12lbs in a week. No wonder why I had this surgery!!

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