Well it's now been one week and a day since my surgery and I'm feeling great! I've already lost 17 pounds!! I can't remember ever losing so much weight so fast. My time at the hospital went real fast, I had my surgery on a tue and went home Thur. afthernoon. The pain has been no where near what I thought it was going to be, I've had worse period cramps, But I'm sure the morphine had a big hand in that. I was up walking in the hallway for the first time on tue around 6:30pm a little less then 12 hours afther my surgery, my knees where a little rubbery but it actually felt kinda good to get out of bed and move those sore muscles from lieing on a small operation table for 3 hours. I had my swallow study late Wed. morning ( that stuff you have to swallow taste horrible!!) no leaks so about 2 hours afther that I was able to drink some water. Water never tasted so good!! I was so thirsty!! I was even able to take a shower on Wed, it kind of tired me out but it felt good since I had been running a fever on Tue and Wed since I wasn't making myself cough enough. So don't forget to cough when you get out of surgery everyone : ) My fevers would go down about 1/2 hour afther I made myself cough up some of the phlem in my lungs.
The ride home was kind of hard though, it hurt every time we went over a bump, I sould of thought to take some pain med. before I left. Other then that everything was pretty unevental. Sorry about the spelling errors I'm not a very good speller.
I'm ready to go back to work I'm getting pretty bored just sitting around, but since I'm a bartender that won't be for another 3 to 5 weeks. My husband keeps scolding me that I'm over doing it at home. Yesterday I agreed because I shampooed the carpet not a very smart idea because I was in alot of pain later that night. I just feel so good it's hard for me not to do anything. Well as I lose more weight I'll do another update, next Wed I go back to see Dr. Nakeeb for my 2 week follow up. Bye for now, Angela