mirlyn2012
Update it's getting better part 2
Mar 05, 2012
Sorry my iPad wouldn't let me scroll further. Anyway I also snagged a piece of raw tuna from my best friend and it was deliciousssss. I'm not supposed to have raw fish yet just because of the food borne illness risks but I've been severely lacking on my protein since I can't stomach the powders anymore so whatever.
Today I did lots of running for doctors. Metabolic labs drawn, ultrasound, etc.
My menu today: breakfast- lower sugar apple cinnamon oatmeal, about a 3rd of the packet
Lunch: about 3 tbsp of publix egg salad
Snack- voskos fig Greek yogurt about 1/2 of a serving
Dinner- tbsp of tuna salad and tbsp of potato and cheese organic soup
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Today I did lots of running for doctors. Metabolic labs drawn, ultrasound, etc.
My menu today: breakfast- lower sugar apple cinnamon oatmeal, about a 3rd of the packet
Lunch: about 3 tbsp of publix egg salad
Snack- voskos fig Greek yogurt about 1/2 of a serving
Dinner- tbsp of tuna salad and tbsp of potato and cheese organic soup
Update, it's getting better.
Mar 05, 2012
So let's start with last weekend. I had terrible uncontrollable nausea all weekend which turned into uncontrollable dry heaving so I went to the emergency room.
It took 6 hours to be seen but once seen they got me some fluids and anti nausea meds and anxiety meds to help me rest. The anti nausea meds didn't work. I had an X-ray and ultrasound and they wheeled me back to my little room. About 6 hours later I paged a nurse to find out what the results were and he said they were waiting on a room for me. I was admitted at 6:30am Monday.
It was HELL. X-rays, ultrasounds, blood panel after blood panel, a HIDA scan of my gallbladder, and about 15 bags of fluid. The HIDA scan consisted of a doctor injecting me with some nuclear stuff and watching my gallbladder do its job for an hour and then making me eat half of a Hershey bar and a cup of cream, waiting an hour then scanning again. I was so scared I would dump. Luckily I didn't and my gallbladder was sludgy but working.
Friday night I finally had an appetite but my dr didn't change my diet plan to solid foods until 5 minutes after dinner was served so they brought me broth, sf jello, and a Popsicle... I didn't eat. I told my sister to sneak me in some mashed potatoes when she came so she brought me both mashed potatoes and sweet potato. I had a few bites of each. Heaven.
Saturday morning I was supposed to be discharged but my dr didn't show up until 2 pm. I was so restless I almost signed myself out against medical advice. When I finally got out my sister wanted sushi so we went to our favorite sushi place with my best friend and cousin. I ordered avocado heaven which is a mashed avocado dish with bits of seafood and mayo baked. I hatbc
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It took 6 hours to be seen but once seen they got me some fluids and anti nausea meds and anxiety meds to help me rest. The anti nausea meds didn't work. I had an X-ray and ultrasound and they wheeled me back to my little room. About 6 hours later I paged a nurse to find out what the results were and he said they were waiting on a room for me. I was admitted at 6:30am Monday.
It was HELL. X-rays, ultrasounds, blood panel after blood panel, a HIDA scan of my gallbladder, and about 15 bags of fluid. The HIDA scan consisted of a doctor injecting me with some nuclear stuff and watching my gallbladder do its job for an hour and then making me eat half of a Hershey bar and a cup of cream, waiting an hour then scanning again. I was so scared I would dump. Luckily I didn't and my gallbladder was sludgy but working.
Friday night I finally had an appetite but my dr didn't change my diet plan to solid foods until 5 minutes after dinner was served so they brought me broth, sf jello, and a Popsicle... I didn't eat. I told my sister to sneak me in some mashed potatoes when she came so she brought me both mashed potatoes and sweet potato. I had a few bites of each. Heaven.
Saturday morning I was supposed to be discharged but my dr didn't show up until 2 pm. I was so restless I almost signed myself out against medical advice. When I finally got out my sister wanted sushi so we went to our favorite sushi place with my best friend and cousin. I ordered avocado heaven which is a mashed avocado dish with bits of seafood and mayo baked. I hatbc
6 Days Post Op - Good LAWD!
Feb 25, 2012
Ok so I haven't posted since the surgery. I've been pretty much laid up in bed/couch/recliner and OH's ability to work with my android is severely lacking in the blog department.
Surgery day was surreal. I woke up way earlier than expected. I was nauseous and started vomiting for about an hour. I don't know if it was nerves or the lack of nutrients in my body or what but I felt bad. We got to the hospital at 5:30am and checked in. They gave me some versed after my IV was set up to help calm my nerves but they were out of zofran in the surgery admissions room but the versed helped a lot.
Once they got me in the OR I don't remember a thing until I woke up in recovery in dire pain. I kept moaning for the nurse who was near my bed but she ignored me (no really, she ignored me.) Finally got her attention and told her I needed help and she told me to use my pain pump... I pressed that bugger over and over and over again and it didn't help and she said it was going to take a few minutes but pressing it over and over again isn't going to make it happen any faster because it has a timer on it. She also made a comment, "Well of course you're in pain, you just had a major abdominal surgery and a liver biopsy..."
Oh yeah, by the way there was a growth on my liver that got biopsied during surgery. Benign. Yay.
So once I got up to my room my main complaint for the first day was the nausea. The nausea was terrible. They gave me zofran around the clock but it didn't help so I had my grandfather bring me some "seabands" from Walgreens. They're the little bracelets that have nothing to do with medication and more to do with pressure points for motion sickness. They worked better than the zofran. I think my nausea was mostly from my equilibrium being thrown off from the anesthesia.
My second day was amazing. Barely any pain. I actually did my makeup. Played rummy with my best friend. Walked 20 laps... I thought it was going to be cake.
And then.... My pain pump medicine ran out. OH MY GAWD! You do not know how strong that pain pump is or how wonderful until you lose it! I cried. I became a royal pain in the ass for my nurses. I was so cranky and in pain and miserable. I have a low pain tolerance so it was to be expected I guess.
Day 3 I remember doing a lot of sleeping. I didn't sleep well the first two nights so I guess I was catching up. My surgeon came in and asked if I thought I was ready to be released and I grimaced so he took that as a no. I couldn't imagine not having the nurses around to help me when I needed it. The surgeon noticed I was congested and had coughed a little so he sent me down for chest xrays too. They were fine. I still have the cough and I try to avoid coughing as much as possible because holy moly does it hurt. I remember that same problem from my c-section almost 3 years ago.
Day 4 was release day. Came home. Slept a lot. Barely ate. I may have gotten my liquid intake just because I drank about 20 oz while in the hospital before I came home but protein intake? Ha. Not even close.
Day 5... Still not even close. I just couldn't eat! I made the mistake of trying my protein mix in 2% milk.... Oh god. I was shooting that phenergan suppository so fast I didn't even think twice. Not ready for such a fatty milk. Will try skim milk in some soup tomorrow to see if it's at least doable that way.
Day 6.. Today I have not taken a pain pill since early morning but I'm probably about to. I'm in ketosis as is apparent by the nasty metallic taste in my mouth. My friend brought me some sugar free lifesavers yesterday to help with that and hopefully they're ok for the diet but if they're not? Oh well, I've been eating them and will continue to do so lol. I've had to use 2 suppositories today to prevent vomiting. I'm pretty sure I'm lightly dehydrated. I've had a popsicle, a cup of ice chips, a cup of soup, and 3 cups of water but I feel pretty weak.
You know what I've been really craving? A BITE OF A HAMBURGER! I can't wait til I can at least taste some real food without feeling like I'm going to gag just by seeing it. I saw a reece's pieces commercial today, it made me a sad monkey. And I miss soda. Yep. I'm a lady full of vices, this is going to be one steep slope! Better get my hiking gear out.
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Surgery day was surreal. I woke up way earlier than expected. I was nauseous and started vomiting for about an hour. I don't know if it was nerves or the lack of nutrients in my body or what but I felt bad. We got to the hospital at 5:30am and checked in. They gave me some versed after my IV was set up to help calm my nerves but they were out of zofran in the surgery admissions room but the versed helped a lot.
Once they got me in the OR I don't remember a thing until I woke up in recovery in dire pain. I kept moaning for the nurse who was near my bed but she ignored me (no really, she ignored me.) Finally got her attention and told her I needed help and she told me to use my pain pump... I pressed that bugger over and over and over again and it didn't help and she said it was going to take a few minutes but pressing it over and over again isn't going to make it happen any faster because it has a timer on it. She also made a comment, "Well of course you're in pain, you just had a major abdominal surgery and a liver biopsy..."
Oh yeah, by the way there was a growth on my liver that got biopsied during surgery. Benign. Yay.
So once I got up to my room my main complaint for the first day was the nausea. The nausea was terrible. They gave me zofran around the clock but it didn't help so I had my grandfather bring me some "seabands" from Walgreens. They're the little bracelets that have nothing to do with medication and more to do with pressure points for motion sickness. They worked better than the zofran. I think my nausea was mostly from my equilibrium being thrown off from the anesthesia.
My second day was amazing. Barely any pain. I actually did my makeup. Played rummy with my best friend. Walked 20 laps... I thought it was going to be cake.
And then.... My pain pump medicine ran out. OH MY GAWD! You do not know how strong that pain pump is or how wonderful until you lose it! I cried. I became a royal pain in the ass for my nurses. I was so cranky and in pain and miserable. I have a low pain tolerance so it was to be expected I guess.
Day 3 I remember doing a lot of sleeping. I didn't sleep well the first two nights so I guess I was catching up. My surgeon came in and asked if I thought I was ready to be released and I grimaced so he took that as a no. I couldn't imagine not having the nurses around to help me when I needed it. The surgeon noticed I was congested and had coughed a little so he sent me down for chest xrays too. They were fine. I still have the cough and I try to avoid coughing as much as possible because holy moly does it hurt. I remember that same problem from my c-section almost 3 years ago.
Day 4 was release day. Came home. Slept a lot. Barely ate. I may have gotten my liquid intake just because I drank about 20 oz while in the hospital before I came home but protein intake? Ha. Not even close.
Day 5... Still not even close. I just couldn't eat! I made the mistake of trying my protein mix in 2% milk.... Oh god. I was shooting that phenergan suppository so fast I didn't even think twice. Not ready for such a fatty milk. Will try skim milk in some soup tomorrow to see if it's at least doable that way.
Day 6.. Today I have not taken a pain pill since early morning but I'm probably about to. I'm in ketosis as is apparent by the nasty metallic taste in my mouth. My friend brought me some sugar free lifesavers yesterday to help with that and hopefully they're ok for the diet but if they're not? Oh well, I've been eating them and will continue to do so lol. I've had to use 2 suppositories today to prevent vomiting. I'm pretty sure I'm lightly dehydrated. I've had a popsicle, a cup of ice chips, a cup of soup, and 3 cups of water but I feel pretty weak.
You know what I've been really craving? A BITE OF A HAMBURGER! I can't wait til I can at least taste some real food without feeling like I'm going to gag just by seeing it. I saw a reece's pieces commercial today, it made me a sad monkey. And I miss soda. Yep. I'm a lady full of vices, this is going to be one steep slope! Better get my hiking gear out.
2 Days Pre-Op (TMI)
Feb 18, 2012
Today is Saturday and my surgery is bright and early on Monday. I'm currently on day 2 of my clear liquids diet (sigh) and have taken my second dose of SuPrep (ewwwwwwww!) I almost couldn't get it all down, I wanted to vomit. It's so gross tasting!!! I feel like I've been on the toilet ALL day. I want a cracker or something dry instead of broth and juice and water! I am really looking forward to my little medicine cup of scrambled eggs post op lol. I've been browsing before/after photos all day on this site to get my motivation lol.
I'm very nervous about my surgery but I've been chatting all night with an old friend who had her RNY back in OCT '10. She's definitely made me feel better about my decision. All of the naysayers or soothsayers or whatever you want to call them have been trying to talk me out of doing this for months upon months. Everyone knows someone who has died from gastric bypass. It's weird because other than my 1 friend who has done GREAT I don't know anyone that has had the surgery let alone anyone who has died. Granted I now know plenty who have been through it but before actively seeking it myself I didn't know who did and didn't have it. People have been coming out of the woodwork saying they had it done. People you would never imagine! And a lot of them don't eat right now so I can definitely foresee their weight coming back eventually.
My menu today was as follows for those that are trying to get an idea of the clear liquid diet:
Breakfast:
Woke up to a Fuze Slenderize watermelon strawberry drink
A couple sips of Welch's Grape no sugar added juice
A lemon lime gatorade (best thing all day!)
Lunch:
Lipton French Onion Soup with the onion bits strained out
Sugar Free Jell-o Strawberry
SuPrep Bowel Prep kit (nastiest flavored stuff ever) mixed with grape juice
Water
Dinner:
Vegetable Beef soup by campbells with all of the junk strained out and added chicken broth to make more volume
Pickle Juice
Jell-0
SuPrep Bowel Prep Kit
Water, Water, Water, Water
If you've ever seen the Rejected cartoons on Youtube.... I'm the little cloud guy. MY ANUS IS BLEEDING! Or at least it feels like it is! 2 more days!
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I'm very nervous about my surgery but I've been chatting all night with an old friend who had her RNY back in OCT '10. She's definitely made me feel better about my decision. All of the naysayers or soothsayers or whatever you want to call them have been trying to talk me out of doing this for months upon months. Everyone knows someone who has died from gastric bypass. It's weird because other than my 1 friend who has done GREAT I don't know anyone that has had the surgery let alone anyone who has died. Granted I now know plenty who have been through it but before actively seeking it myself I didn't know who did and didn't have it. People have been coming out of the woodwork saying they had it done. People you would never imagine! And a lot of them don't eat right now so I can definitely foresee their weight coming back eventually.
My menu today was as follows for those that are trying to get an idea of the clear liquid diet:
Breakfast:
Woke up to a Fuze Slenderize watermelon strawberry drink
A couple sips of Welch's Grape no sugar added juice
A lemon lime gatorade (best thing all day!)
Lunch:
Lipton French Onion Soup with the onion bits strained out
Sugar Free Jell-o Strawberry
SuPrep Bowel Prep kit (nastiest flavored stuff ever) mixed with grape juice
Water
Dinner:
Vegetable Beef soup by campbells with all of the junk strained out and added chicken broth to make more volume
Pickle Juice
Jell-0
SuPrep Bowel Prep Kit
Water, Water, Water, Water
If you've ever seen the Rejected cartoons on Youtube.... I'm the little cloud guy. MY ANUS IS BLEEDING! Or at least it feels like it is! 2 more days!
The Backstory (DUN DUN DUNNNN!)
Feb 18, 2012
My name is Miranda and I just turned 29 years old. I'm separated from my husband who is in the Navy and have a 2 and a half year old little boy named Talon. In October of 2011 my husband was at sea for a meager 2 months and when I asked him why he wasn't communicating with myself nor his son he stated he wanted a divorce. I later found out he had been seeing a girl on his ship those two months. Anyway, long story short it was a wake up call for me. Not to keep him around, although those thoughts danced in my head many times during my weakest moments, but because I knew I did not want to enter the dating scene at this size and by the end of my divorce I'll no longer have military health insurance so I sought out my primary care doctor and discussed surgery.
At first he was quite against the idea. I'm 5'3" and at that point I was 247 (my highest ever by that point) and my weight retention was heavily dependant on the fact that I have polycystic ovarian syndrome (I know, no one know which came first, the chicken or the egg but in my case depo provera came first so PCOS = WEIGHT.) Anyway, tangent averted. My doctor wanted to try metformin to treat the PCOS before he even entertained the idea of weight loss surgery so we went that route and I was cool with it... The metformin made me SO SICK! Before metformin I could go to the gym and get on the elyptical for 30 minutes at least, once on the metformin however I got on the elyptical and got so dizzy after 10 minutes I had to step off and get water before I fainted. My doctor decided the side effects weren't going to help me at all in my weightloss and my blood panels were showing my body in severe metabolic syndrome. It was a race to lose weight or get diabetes, diabetes was winning. So he put in my referral.
After my initial form submitted to my weight loss center I got a very sad phone call from one of the nice nurses letting me know at my current BMI/weight my specific insurance would most definitely deny my claim. I had to decide if I wanted to risk the 500$ registration fee and go for it anyway or just go back to the old exercise and diet route which I knew wouldn't work. I put my chips on the table. Luckily it paid off. By February 8th I had a surgery date and an approval from my insurance! YAY!
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At first he was quite against the idea. I'm 5'3" and at that point I was 247 (my highest ever by that point) and my weight retention was heavily dependant on the fact that I have polycystic ovarian syndrome (I know, no one know which came first, the chicken or the egg but in my case depo provera came first so PCOS = WEIGHT.) Anyway, tangent averted. My doctor wanted to try metformin to treat the PCOS before he even entertained the idea of weight loss surgery so we went that route and I was cool with it... The metformin made me SO SICK! Before metformin I could go to the gym and get on the elyptical for 30 minutes at least, once on the metformin however I got on the elyptical and got so dizzy after 10 minutes I had to step off and get water before I fainted. My doctor decided the side effects weren't going to help me at all in my weightloss and my blood panels were showing my body in severe metabolic syndrome. It was a race to lose weight or get diabetes, diabetes was winning. So he put in my referral.
After my initial form submitted to my weight loss center I got a very sad phone call from one of the nice nurses letting me know at my current BMI/weight my specific insurance would most definitely deny my claim. I had to decide if I wanted to risk the 500$ registration fee and go for it anyway or just go back to the old exercise and diet route which I knew wouldn't work. I put my chips on the table. Luckily it paid off. By February 8th I had a surgery date and an approval from my insurance! YAY!
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02/20/2012
Surgery Date
Feb 18, 2012
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