Month 1

Aug 23, 2015

Waking up from the surgery was like I was in the twilight zone, I remember seeing the nurses face staring at me I actually screamed and she apologized for scaring me.  The next 3 hours it was terrible!!  I WAS SO NAUSEOUS!!!!  I was miserable I was afraid this might happen but I had no idea how bad it would be.  When I had my C-section with the birth of my son, I was also nauseous, feeling like I would pass out on the operating table but they were able to help with additional meds.  So between the pain and nausea, it was about the worst 3 hours of my life.  They gave me every medication they could to bring my nausea under control.  Once I felt a little better, I asked for pain meds which they were reluctant to give me because they thought it might make me nauseous again.  They gave me some moraphine and I started to feel okay.  (also a lesson from my c-section, I had refused pain meds all day & all night then woke up at 3am in the worst pain of my life)  This time I was bound & determined to get in front of the pain.  I am shocked when I read people's blogs or comments, "Oh I woke up from surgery and felt great!"  No, this was not the case for me!!!  Right after I started to feel okay, the nurses had me up, starting to drink my protein shakes, and walking around the hospital.  I actually wore my fitbit to the hospital bound and determined to rack up some steps while I was in the hospital.  While I am proud to say I walked 75 laps while I was in the hospital, those steps didn't register on my fitbit I was walking so slow!  So I manually counted my steps and laps it gave me something to do at 3am while walking around the hospital. Oh I also had my gall-bladder out at the same time and they had to cut my liver to get to it all.

    I was unable to get protein drinks down fast enough so I had 2 night hospital stay.  I really didn't care, I never thought 1 ounce of protein shake would seem like eating an elephant but it was for me.   I found it had to be really cold, both the water and the protein shake, I still have to drink both water and protein shakes with ice and very cold.

   I few days at home and I noticed one of my incisions looked strange, a lot of red spots around it.  I called my surgeon's office 3 times that day and no one called me back. The person who answered the phone was rude and said she couldn't do anything but send a message to the dr. on call and I would just have to wait.  Meanwhile, I was super dizzy all day!!!  The next morning I woke up and had my friend just drive me straight to the Dr.s office.  She actually told me to do so, she said they are not going to turn you away if you are standing in front of them.  So I did, she was right, the nice front office lady apologized for what happened the day before and got me right in to see the doctor.  He also profusely apologized for no one getting back to me the day before, he said he was the doctor on call and he never got a message.  Anyway he said my incision was fine, because it was the largest cut, the red spots were just it's bruising pattern but he was more concerned about my dizziness.  SEE, I was soo lucky to get my period they day after my surgery, and I was on the blood thinners so I was bleeding like crazy!!!  He asked if I was walking enough which I was so he said to stop the blood thinners.  I was so happy, once I stopped the blood thinners I felt SO MUCH BETTER!!!!!  The recovery was slower then I thought.  I am typically a super active person but  it took about a month to start to feel close to "normal."  I ended the month with a 25lb loss which was awesome!!  Although I had hoped for more, I found out that  this was actually pretty good!  Having PCOS has always interfered with my great efforts to lose weight, so I was starting to believe this would actually work!

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