update

well i'm 9 days postop. things are going pretty good. ive lost 29 pounds total since august 7th (whi*****ludes my preop diet). but since surgery (the 22nd) ive lost 12 pounds. i had my postop follow up w/ my surgeon yesterday. he took the bandages off of my incisions. they still have sterri strips on them but he said theyll fall off by themselves. i told him that my 1 incision on the right still hurts. he said that it was the incision that they pulled the stomach out of and it was longer. he said they put stitches in that incision for the reason so that i dont get a hernia there. i didnt know that or i wouldnt be zipping around like i am. its still hurting. i started cream soups and milk yesterday. im keepin everything down and not had any nausea. which is great! ive tried cream of: cheese, onion, and brocoli and cheese. they were all pretty good. i like the sugar free hot cocoa w/ milk for breakfast. overall im glad w/ how im feeling and doing postop and happy about my loss so far. every night at dinner time i do smell what my mom's cooking and i want some SOOOOOO bad! i cant wait to have purreed foods! cant wait to chew again. seems like just yesterday was the day before my surgery and i was freaking out. seems like yesterday i had my surgery. and now its been over a week. time flies! i found this protein drink called myoplex. its made by EAS and has 42g of protein in 1 drink! and it tastes nice. im glad i found it. does anyone else use this? i also tried skinny water today, and it was great. did i say the food my mom's cooking smells delicious? lol. thats all for now. just wanted to give yall an update. btw im in sc and looks like hurricane Katia is a cat 4 or 5 and gonna hit us. eek!

 You are doing great!! I sure it will be great when you can start eating food again.  I have learned a lot from reading your blogs.  Talk to you soon.

aww thanks Max! i am doing great, and feeling great. im glad to be an inspiration to someone. are you looking into surgery? i live close to myrtle beach! thanks for the reply

 I am in myrtle beach!  I have my first appointment 13 September.

which surgeon are you using? i used dr washington at conway hospital. hes running a special any surgery for 8,000. hes doing that special cause i told him about roper st francis in mt pleasant running a 9000 special so hes competing with that. reguardless of price, hes a GREAT doctor and did a great job on my surgery

I'm glad to hear all is well! Keep up the good work!! I'll have to see if they sell the Myoplex in Canada because I haven't found any protein that I like so far!  Hopefully Katia will disappear similar to Jose.

 So nice to see you're doing good. And try not to worry about that storm out there, it's still so far away and hopefully it will get pulled north and away from land.

Glad to hear you're doing well!  Yhe cooking, some of which I'm doing, smells good here too!  Can't wait until next week when I )hopefully) grafuate to mushies - at least then I can have some of what the rest of the family is eating.  Right now, I stay away from the table at dinner time.

WTG!!!!! keep up the good work!!

thanks boomer :-)