lisweetie00
Hi i am 32 yrs old , married with 5 children who has had trouble with weight all my life not that i was extemely heavy all my life but was always chunky for as long as i can remember when i got married and had children the weight went on more and more and i couldnt get it off my husband also gained weight he was up to 465lbs when he finally had the surgrey done my highest was these past four yrs i was at 245 to 255 lbs and i just had enough. i was gonna have it done a few yrs ago but i think i was scared of the pre testing more then anything and my youngest daughter was so lil i just couldnt take much time away from her i guess i used that as my excuse then but yet i knew i wanted this surgrey done but just didnt have any ambition to go through with all the testing but this past summer i was talking to a friend of mine husband wife which i met a few times and she wanted to go through with the surgrey too and she said why dont we do the testing together we can push one another to get it all done and you know what it worked we didnt go to the doc at the same time but we would call each other everytime we had and appt and when it was done to try and push the other one to get it done . i was done with testing in 3 wks it went fast i was shocked i did it i was hoping to have surgrey the first week in jan but my pcp took forever to write my letter for the insurance company and then when i did get that done the insurance came back with more crap that was done to be written more clearer it too from nov to feb to finally get an approval i got the approval and my surgeon went on vac for 3 wks and the earliest appt was march 14th which i agreed to which wasnt that bad the time went fast i couldnt believe it when it was the day before i thought something else would go wrong so i would have to pospone the date but it didnt i went in wednesday march 14th at 9 am for surgrey in the mean time i wasnt scared at all through out this all process. i guess i knew i had the best surgeon there was i knew so many people who had it done and it didnt worry me at all i was driving to the hospital smiling as my husband was scared and when i got there i signed in and they brought me right back i got ready and i wasnt even undress and they were waiting for me so they could put the iv in it went fast and they kinda got my worried i didnt think i was gonna see my husband they were waiting upstairs in the or for me but i did see my hubby for only a few mins and off i went i think my husband was more scared then anything i was smiling and calm the whole time even in the or no one could believe i was going in for surgrey and i was so calm but i wasnt scared i knew what i was in for the only thing is that i didnt relize how much pain i was in after surgrey i thought the drugs would have killed all the pain but it didnt but i am a wimp when it comes to stomache pain cramps kill me lol but after a few hrs i wanted to get up and walk they said the pain i was feeling was gas and i had to move so thats what i wanted to do. they explained i didnt have to get up right away but i wanted it i wanted to .they had me on the pump when i got outof surgrey but i was tired and in pain so i asked my husband while i was in recovery to please press the pump every six mins for the med so i can just close my eyes and maybe i could get some rest without the pain bothering me but the nurse complained said he couldnt do that and they took me off the pump and put me on a shot every four hours which was then turned to every 3 hrs cause i dont do pain good lol but other then that i was just fine by that night i was walking around the halls trying to get the gas out . the nurses were shocked to see me up as soon for days all i heard were postive things from them i tried not to rely on anyone but me and my hubby when he was there all they did have to do was bring me med on time lol which they did unless it was changing staff time which i would say either ask them to bring it a lil earlier so you odnt have to wait a lil longer for a new staff to make there rounds but it wasnt that bad .i was able to go home on friday but i told my surgeon i wasnt feeling up to it so he kept me another day and saturday he came in and removed my drain tube i was able to leave and go home. i felt fine a lil sore but ok my husband helped me alot by sunday i was going for a ride with him to get stuff i needed from the store the ride was a lil bouncy but other then that i was ok i used the motor carts in the store so i didnt over do it and that worked i think it also helped me getting out i was able to sleep alil better at night. i didnt try to put a bra on because of my incisions on the upper left part of my stomache my chest rubs it and i didnt want to have a bra rubbing it so tuesday i tried a sports bra and it kinda bothered me trying to get it on but when i got it on i was fine i layed down for a bit and when i woke i didnt feel good i felt warm by the end of the night i was really aweful i felt sick weak and warm i asked my husband to go get a thermometer and when he went i took off the sports bra and by ten mins the fever broke and i was back to feeling better i dont know if the bra had anything to do with it but i also dont know why i felt better after taking it off . but other then that i have been feeling pretty good today is the first time to see the surgeon since saturday and i hope all is good i take it one day at a time right now cant wait to get to normal . i want to drive and go out .im so sore just staying home im not use to this . so there is my story
