oct 24/11 update

Oct 24, 2011

just a little update...

Surgery was a bit complicated as expected. Doc said my liver was one of the best he had seen in a long time probably as I had changed my habits for last 6 months and lost 45 lbs on my own. He also found and repaired a hiatus hernia. I had a drain while in hosp to make sure there were no infections. Surgery on tues and let loose on thurs morning.  Hospital was kind of crappy. Watch out for the vampire nurses wanting more blood and giving injections, etc I am so glad to be out of there. Dr Hagen was just wonderful coming to visit and answering all my questions. He is not only a highly skilled surgeon but super bedside manner and caring. Turns out I am alergic to steri strips and got huge water blisters under the bandages but he assured me they will go away.

Since then I have  been recovering very slowly and I slept a lot, getting in all my vitamins but still low energy. I am not pushing it. I had to inject myself for 8 days of anti blood clot medication. My belly hurts so much and is all black and blue. But better to be safe with blood clots. I am no spring chicken any more and I need to be careful. The incision on the left side still hurts esp as I put on pants yesterday and it touches it. I am still on full fluids (so boring) but had my first pureed today which includes a poached egg and that was so good. Puree chicken was blah. Looking forward to real foods. Havent had any nausea or dumping, just can't eat much. Losing slow but steady 6 lbs in 10 days for my new total of 60 since first weigh in with surgeon. Had just one day of feeling down with OMG what have I done? but it passed. I know I am giving myslf a new lease on life with less pain and more enjoyment. Still think this was my only option if I wanted to live. It is still a struggle, no one said it would be easy but I know I made the right decision. Have made lots of wonderful friends through this forum. Wishing them all the best too.    

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