Share Your Funniest Post-Op Moment

Hi.
I am 6 days post op for GBP. One of the only things I remember on the day of surgery is ( and this will show yer age lol) is the nurse asking me to get out of bed and me walking to the chair like " Mr Tudball". The younger nurses had no idea what I was talking about but my husband did throw in a couple "Miss Hue-iginns" lines and make me laugh.

Angela

My Funniest post op moment was when I forst woke from surgery and my oldest daughter was there she congradulated me on my boob job and I was so out of it she said i smiled and ask if they looked good and went back to sleep. I am now 6 month post op and we still laugh about it.
Diane

Well, I am only a few days out, but so far, it had to be when I woke up in recovery and asked if I was done! I had no recollection of being wheeled into the OR!

 Hi there
    I am a bit disconnected from this forum but I think I have a really funny moment. Enjoy.

     I was 6 weeks out of surgery. I started at 260ish pounds and I knew I was losing weight pretty quickly. I had lost about 30 lbs at that point. I was at the grocery store (for a long time) trying to figure out what to buy and in what quantity. I decided that I only needed a few things, so I did not need a hand held basket. I shopped for the essentials thinking about my new little stomach. The basics: Cans of tuna, a little broccoli, and some Crystal lite (probably gonna kill us all some day). 

   I was standing in the pay line to a grocery store in Miami Beach Florida where everyone is awesome looking and many altered by the way!  So, there is a very nice English gentleman behind me that I start chatting with and one of the first questions that he asks me is "Why can I see your knickers??"

 My skirt apparently had an wardrobe malfunction. I was standing in the middle of the grocery store line chatting a patron up and my skirt was around my ankles. Not one of my finest moments. 

Tara, changed forever by this surgery!!!!!!!

So, the morning of the second day of the hospital, the Dr. comes by to do the normal routine, check the incision sites, ask how I am feeling yada yada... Then he asks, " Have you passed any gas" Im a very reserved person and get embarassed easily and say " I dont think so?" When my neighbor in my room also replies " Yes, she has! She has been doing it all night long!" Talk about turning red!

I'm not sure how funny it really is, but they lost my husband after my surgery.....and my belongings, which had my glasses, leaving me pretty much blind.  Somehow, they managed to miss an almost 6' tall man sitting in the waiting room....ALONE!  I finally had to call my son at home, very carefully explain where my room was and what the room # was, and he basically found my husband when they people at the hospital couldn't!  My glasses arrived about 10 minutes after my hubby did

I am now four days post-op (why don't they count the first day if the surgery was performed in the morning?). I am doing GREAT! Sure, there is discomfort and the pain meds wear off around the 4th hour and you have to wait the full six hours before your next dose...but not bad! My funny moment was when I started walking the first night. I did four laps around the ward...slowly. There was an older gentleman walking the same path but from the other direction and he had a bit of a problem "sharing the road." "Hey! I'm walking here!" But he was cute and talking with his nurse about history...very cool. The second day, I did five walks (4 laps each). Whenever I couldn't sleep, I would walk. My third day, I finally got up to 10 laps. I officially got "the nod" from all the nurses in the nursing station. One of them commented, "You are our model patient." Wow! Didn't know there was such a thing after surgery. Third day post-op, my bowels started moving...HEAVEN! (Wow, what a smell!) One weird thing after surgery, when they switched me from the pain pump to the liquid Loritab, I immediately flushed - red hot face - thought that I was burning up but no fever. Next dose, the same thing happened. A ha! That had to change, so I asked for Percocet - they gave it to me in tablet form, not the nasty sickly sweet liquid - they also halved the pills and it was easier to swallow. PHEW! No flush reaction! Some things that I've figured out: Get a recliner (much easier to sleep than on a bed with a pillow pyramid fortress), everything you drink better have protein in it (PURE unflavored protein that mixes in anything, it works for me- yes, put it in the sugar-free jello), make homemade chicken noodle soup or french onion soup and strain it...sooooo much better than chicken or beef bouillon cubes (Progresso Chicken Noodle and French Onion work as well - heat it up and then strain it...yummmm), I hate the taste of Aspartame so I started to make my own gelatin - get the packs of gelatin, sugar-free fruit juice made with Splenda, and if you really want more sweetness, add some Stevia, and add the unflavored protein powder...it tastes so much better than the pre-made cups, if your back hurts put a gel ice pack on it, if your stomach hurts put a warm heat pad on it...don't just be uncomfortable for no reason (but sometimes our brains don't work well when we are dehydrated), start those vitamins (I have more energy and oomph than my sister had after her two gastric bypasses), and most importantly, look at all the things you can have instead of being trapped by thinking of all the things you're not supposed to have. Some history: I had the lap-band eight years ago and am used to restriction (lost 85 pounds)...not so used to no sugar, fat, alcohol, carbonation, and caffeine. Ok- so all of you that are years out realize that I'm a newbie and in the honeymoon phase a bit and things may change for me (I just hope not). I am just excited about my life - I am no longer worried about what I'm going to eat and when. I'm starting this time with a physical trainer that will coach me through movement NOW instead of a year or so from now. I am going to lose as much as I can as quickly as I can - in the first few precious years before my body gets any other ideas. I also tried Susan's Healthy Gourmet (online web service - delivers fresh food twice a week) - although, I won't be able to use the service for a long time...I'm looking forward to having an online chef. It's been great reading the posts before and after surgery. You have all helped me a lot. Let's be stronger together!   

Probley my family and friends telling me about their conversations with me  while i was using my pain pump button thangie.  I have no memory of any of the conversations lol