Share Your Funniest Post-Op Moment

Sounds like you do love it.  How are you doing with regard to eating?  Do you throw up a lot?

 Yes how are u doing with life time diet ? id be interested to hear.

Well, it was less than a week after my RNY surgery, and I get a call from my son's school nurse requiring me to go pick him up because he had poked himself in the eye with a pencil.  Mind you I could barely walk, let alone try and drive!!  So I called my husband home from work to pick my son up and after getting him home and seeing that his eye needed to be seen by a specialist, we then load up in the car, (me barely able to stand straight due to the pain) I climb into the passenger seat and ride to the pediatric eye dr. to find out what's going on..   While in the waiting room waiting on the Dr because it's after hours and the Dr. was home eating dinner, I'm sitting there chewing my sugar free gum....  all the sudden, I SWALLOWED MY GUM! I looked at my husband with HUGE eyes, and said, "OMG, honey, I just swallowed my gum!" He said, "Are you serious?"  I was sitting there thinking we were going to have to make a trip to the Pittsburgh Children's Hospital (which is 2 hours away) for my son's eye, and also thinking I was going to have to go to the E.R. to get a chunk of gum unlodged from my pouch!!  So there I sat worrying about my son's eye, and the piece of gum in my pouch that I thought for sure was going to get stuck!  After seeing the specialist for my son's eye, we were relieved to hear that we didn't have to go anywhere, and the Dr. prescribed some antibiotic eye drops for his eye and just some follow up appointments to make sure his eye was healing properly.  BUT, that left me worrying about the little piece of chewing gum I had swallowed.  Well I didn't want to go to the E.R. and look like an idiot, so I waited until the next morning and called my surgeon's office to tell them what I had done, and they assured me that if there were going to be any problems they'd have happened by then and I should be fine, and if anything was to arise to give them a call.  I worried about that piece of gum for the next day or so.... but after being able to eat (or should I say drink) my food and keeping everything down, I knew the little piece of chewing gum would eventually be coming out some other way......

That's my story, and I'm "STICKING" to it, no pun intended!!

:o)

My step son--who is 8--just moved in with us and we told him about the surgery--explaining that I can't eat very much --I have a "baby stomach" about as big as his fist, etc.   So since then everytime we eat with anyone new or at a restarant he has to tell the waiter- "She can't eat that much-its ok-she has a VERY small stomach" Then if I order something he will tell me--"there is NO WAY all that is going to fit in your stomach" " Did you eat too fast again?"  His is quite a supporter but I also have to tell him not EVERYONE needs to know.

How are you doing now?  Are you throwing up a lot?  Do you have any bad side effects now?  How was your transition?

Thats too funny... How are you doing now with your post op? Im having my surgery in Nov. and Im very nervous But its something I want more then anything.
Sherry

Hi,

I am scheduled for the RNY surgery on October 28th of this year. If you don't mind my asking, how did you feel following surgery?  How long did you have to be in the hospital?  What was your recovery time?  

Thanks for assistance. 

Hello, 
        My name is Jessica. I just had my surgery on the 14th. I wish that  people would have told me the honest truth.  I had to fast 2 days prior which is the hardest thing I did. I balled my eyes out a lot. I remember feeling like I knew this was a good thing and that its worth it. Being as hungry and weak as I was, I hated it. I got on the surgical table and I wanted to forget about it and leave at that moment. I also want to tell you that I have also never had surgery before in my life nor stitches of any kind. I was scared. I finally realized what a change it meant. The eatting and side effect, the everything. I knew it before but it never hit me till that moment. I did the surgery and I personally woke up in so much pain. Not from my stomach but the amount of air they push in your body. It was the worst pain I had ever felt in my chest and ribs. Eventually, it moved down toward my stomach which wasnt any better.
       You have a really hard time passing gas to get it out. Walking helps they say but not that much in my case. I was so extremely exhausted so i sleep through a lot of my hospital stay which was only 2 days. Mine was done Laperscopically. I have 4 wholes and drain tube whole. Another complication that I am having that I was not aware of is.... Im bleeding. I felt like I needed to use the rest room and when I did, nothing but dark blood came rushing out. I filled the toilet a few times with that. It also made me not be able to pass gas like they want you to. My whole rectum was blocked. I am still dealing with it but its not as bad.
       Walking after surgery isnt bad, what really bothered me was when they took the pain meds away from the drip. The taste of all the medication daily in my mouth completely sucks. Since I have been home, I cry all the time, sometimes because I feel like my dreams are coming true and sometimes because I hate this. I miss the taste of food in my mouth. Im so incrediably tired of broth and jello. I cry, a lot. Im physcially drained before my eyes even open in the morning.
        My roomie who had the surgery too, she on the other hand had no issues what so ever except bad gas pains at one pointe, it didnt last long. Everyone is different, everyone is emotionally different and can take things physically better then other. I think it would have been easier without the bleeding.
       I only tell you this because I wish someone would have told me. If I would have known, then I would have been prepared and handled it differently. These past 4 days I have hated it. But today, I feel so much better pain wise and gas wise. I started out at 273, today I weigh 254.4..... This is worth it.

hang in there kiddo-you sound like a young person, just think how much longer you will be around!!
There is nothing like waking up from surgery and not being prepared for the pain.  I react to some surgery meds so when I wake up I am wired sometime and don't sleep during my time in the hospital.  I am looking forward to being "different".  You are a wonderful creation and time wasn't wasted in the making of "you".  Enjoy, when it hurts, smile, yell, scream and laugh-it will get better and you will too.