Post-Op and feeling better

Mar 23, 2011

Well I am now officially one of the post-op club... had my RNY Gastric Bypass last Wednesday (16th).

I did have some small complications during my 3 1/2 hour surgery and was told afterwards that they even had to consider stopping halfway through because supposedly I have an unusual internal anatomy - still can't quite wrap my head around that one, but it's all good and I'm very thankful that my surgeon and his team pushed on through to complete the surgery.

I have to admit, I did have buyers remorse initially but after they swapped my pain meds from Morphine to Liquid Loritab I started feeling a lot better and figured if this is the worst my pain is gonna get - then I can get through this.

After my 3 night hospital stay I got home on Saturday afternoon, and this is pretty much the first day I have any energy. I am having trouble getting in all my liquids though and yesterday I think I was suffering from mild dehydration so today I am trying even harder to get my liquids in. I can no longer tolerate broth and getting close to not liking Jello, but last night my wife put a few ounces of Progresso Light Chicken soup through the blender and it felt like the best thing I ever tasted.. lol can you believe it - never used to touch that stuff.

I put on 4 lbs in hospital and have now lost that plus another 7 lbs so am excited to see pretty much straight away... can't wait to get in to the two hundreds. Hopefully I will be there by May .

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