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So everything was going a little too well for me and i knew the bottom was about to fall out.  for the last week and a half to two weeks i have been having some serious trouble eating.  so i was able to start introducing real food back into my diet and it started off well but now its not going to good.  food has been sitting in my chest instead of my stomach.  it takes forever to go down with the help of burping or its gotta come back out.  so not fun.  i had my one month post op appointment on thursday and they made me make an appointment for next week to get a consult to see if i need my tummy scoped.  they think i'm healing too well and have scar tissue at the opening to my stomach so they may have to stick a tube down my throat and break up the scar tissue.  god i hope not but at the same time i am kinda hoping for that.  when you can barley eat anything because of the surgery and now i can hardly eat anything it would be nice to be able to eat again.  so this is why i'm so not happy right now.  and now it is nap time after work. peace.  yeah the whole not eating thing makes me exhausted after work

ok so yesterday all my incisions were giving me a little bit of grief.  after talking to my mom who has gone through other surgeries we chalked it up to the nasty icky rainy weather.  today one of my incisions hurts like hell.  i took pain meds for the first time in three days this morning and yet again this afternoon.  the incision is on the top right side of my stomach.  the incision itself looks really good and is like half healed.  the pain is underneath like where the stitch that dissolves is.  it got so bad i called my surgeon and was like oh my god this is bad and doesn't feel right.  he said take up to 600mg of ibuprofen or pain meds(which i did) and its probably just the muscle.  this hurts so bad.  its even more annoying that everything since my rny has been smooth sailing.  i had one day of big pain while in the hospital and thats because i didn't get up and walk.  I've only thrown up once and that was my fault i tried something to soon.  but seriously this has been alot easier then i thought it would be.  ok well i am going to attempt to work on my research paper and hope this pain goes away or otherwise I'm going into the surgeons office tomorrow whether he wants me there or no.

so yesterday was Easter and i was nervous of how i was going to feel be surrounded by all that food so soon after surgery.  i did better than i thought i would.  i brought tomato soup with me so that i was eating at the same time too.  then i went over by where my dad was eating and i took a baby bite of cheesy potatoes and bread.  i had no issues what so ever.  so then i come home and eat dinner around 7pm.  i have yet to feel hungry.  i decided to make rice because i figured what the difference between cream of rice and rice.  i chewed chewed chewed, but unfortunately it all came back out.  for an hour i thought i was going to die with the pain in my chest.  i made myself throw up a few times but the after feeling of all the acid in my throat hurt like hell.  man that was the longest hour of my life.  now i know to not do that again.  surprising though my stomach doesn't hurt to bad cause i hadn't taken pain meds in over 6 hours.  i can finally cut down on it because either the pain is getting better or I'm getting used to it.  yesterday was also the first day i had a bm since the morning of surgery.  I've never had a bm feel so good. i was getting pretty concerned that something was messed up in the new pipes.  its 4:30 am and I'm awake i am feeling a little sore in the tummy this morning.  i also figured i was a little hungry so I'm eating some sugar free apple sauce very slowly last think i want is a repeat of last night.  nothing like a painful learning session to make you really remember things

well i came home yesterday at around 2pm from the hospital.  i took a shower that felt amazing after being in the hospital for three days.  i am in pain there is no doubt about that.  i was sad when they took my morphine pump away in the hospital because i am bad at dealing with pain.  i cried a little i don't even remember the first day of the hospital because i was so out of it.  that could have something to do with the first morphine pump they gave me was broken and no one noticed till my friend looked at it.  god bless having friends that are nurses.  but not i am home and am taking liquid pain med and its helping somewhat.  i keep trying to sleep on my stomach though which is kinda painful when i wake up.  i am trying to put my body pillow under the side of my stomach to keep me from doing that.  well i am awake right now so i should do a few laps around the apartment to help ease the gas pain a little. I'm sure I'll be coming on even more for when i have questions.  it feels very painful but oh so good to be on the other side now.