Leah66
Four Days Out
Sep 30, 2011
Oh, the difference a few hours make. If I had written this post first thing this morning it would have gone much differently, I woke up feeling all kinds of negative about this experience. First I didn't sleep well last night I was up every few hours but I guess I could attribute that to trying to get used to being home from the hospital, secondly I woke up in quite a bit of pain and discomfort, I updated my FB page and even used the term buyers remorse. I was kinda moody and not feeling the whole going through painful surgery to lose weight situation at all this morning.But now after I've had my shower, gotten, dressed, had some fluids and taken a walk, I feel pretty good. The optimism is back and I'm again looking forward to the future.
So let me say, the operation went well, Dr. Neff is all kinds of awesome, even my daughters felt at ease after my pre surgery consultation Tuesday morning.
Then I had a rough two days in the hospital, a lot of pain and discomfort, and the stuff I was throwing up was just eww. I'm realizing now the meds they were giving me for nausea is actually what made me feel so sick. Now that I'm off the IV, I feel much better.
I have six small incisions ranging from a half inch to an inch and a half, the largest one is the only one giving me trouble, except for the fact that I can see the liquid bandage I really would'nt know the other five are there. Two of my smallest have already healed over. The largest however which is probably where most of the work was done is still very sore, the muscles inside are extremely tender so that I have to lie perfectly on my back to sleep and if I'm not wearing a light panty girdle I literally have to hold my hand or a pillow against that spot not to feel pain as I move.
Ok for the good news,
I know it's too soon to worry about getting in a lot of protein but I have begun adding Special K Protien to my water, I have the strawberry kiwi and it's pretty good. Kinda taste like unset jello and I've had one of my two Flinstone vitamins, I carefully bit at it and chewed it before swallowing, I was able to get it down with no nausea.
I'm learning that I have to get up and walk everytime I swallow something to avoid any discomfort, even if it's just around the room. So far so good, I get weighed next week on the 6th, I'm curious to see if I've lost any weight but more importantly I'm focused on following my doctors orders.
I'll keep you posted!
