Tracie D.
Two Days post Op - Update
Sep 15, 2010
My surgery was the 13th, so two days ago. My doctor kept me in the hospital overnight, just because of my Sleep Apnea and oxygen issues, he wanted to make sure I was okay in that department and I did fine.I was surprised, I hardly had any pain at all in my incision areas right after surgery. I was in a pretty serious amount of pain in my hip and knee however (severe Osteo arthritis) and he said likely because how they were maneuvering my body around on the OR table, I was begging them for something for pain and they gave me Dilaudid, which put me on cloud 9 but got rid of my pain quickly for the most part.
I was pretty groggy and nauseated for a few hours, ugh, REALLY nauseated when they put me in a wheelchair and wheeled me downstairs for an xray so they could do a swallow test on me to check my band.
I had to wait for those results before I was permitted to consume any liquids but finally did get broth, jello and hot tea at about 6 that evening, I was so parched by then, told the dietician she was my best friend. lol.
I been having a bit of a problem with my bowels leaking a bit when I sneeze or cough, not as bad today but was horrid in the hospital and I had to keep hobbling to the bathroom over and over again. Also am having an issue with gas pains and had a pretty rough night here at home because of that but managed to get alot of that gas out this morning and it made me feel so much better.
Nurses had me up walking around about three hours aftter my surgery. They actually got told off a bit for not getting me up sooner. I walked the halls three times that evening and then about six or seven times yesterday before I was released last evening. And doing walking back and forth in the house today and using my spirometer and doing my coughing like they instructed.
Had my first protein shake today and my doc is allowing me some heavily watered down cream soups for lunches, he said tomato is one of the ones that he allows so I am going to have that for my lunch, I made it ahead of time this morning and made sure it is very very watery. That soup is likely going to taste heavenly to me after days of no real food.
So far, I am tolerating my meds pretty well with no regurgitating, some of my bigger ones we are going to cut in half and for some things, I will seek out liquids or smaller versions.
And haven't had any regurgitation issues at all, a few times I felt bubbles after taking some sips of water with a pill but it was fine and the feeling passed quickly.
No nausea but doc sent me home with something for that just in case plus I still have my anti nausea patch on and nurse said I could leave that on through today as they are effective for 3 days.
Started a journal here at home to keep track of how I am feeling and so forth as my doctor recommended it as a tool to gain insight into how i feel from day to day, after eating certain foods, etc.
Anyway, just wanted to post an update. I am so so happy that I made this decision for myself and I hope only good things lay in the road ahead.
as a small PS...I am down SEVEN Pounds from four or five days back. Holy cow.
and one more PS... when I came home, there were flowers and a balloon waiting for me on my porch, my Mom had dropped them off earlier in the evening and I wasnt home yet. :) That made my night.
