Starting blog and 2 post-op concerns

Dec 27, 2008

Today is Saturday 12/27 - 5 days post-op.    (first post)

Pre-op wt:  285.3#  (12/17)  started 5 days of liquid diet

Op wt: 277.4# (12/22)  down 7.9#

Both of these were taken with me wearing t-shirt, flannel pants, shoes.  My first follow-up is set for Tuesday 12/29.

Things are going ok.  Very sluggish, sore the first couple of days.  The 5 small inscisions are healing well and don't hurt much anymore except one.  Last time I took any pain meds was Christmas morning.

Am running into 2 problems that I'm going to search the boards about:  burning feeling in the stomach, even when I'm only drinking water (I already take Prevacid daily and have been using Tums or Maalox without much help) and the other being that I can feel the port and it causes pain/discomfort depending on what I'm doing.  I'm not sure if the inscision is healing ok because I'm not sure if all the discomfort is from the port.  Curious if others are running or have run into this problem.

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