3 weeks post op

Sep 03, 2010

Wow it has been a while since i have been on here.   Yesterday was 3 weeks since my surgery and I'm feeling great.   Sometimes I don't even feel like i had surgery and tend to over do things.   I haven't had much time to blog so I thought I would jot down what my surgery experience was like.  

I had to be at the hospital at 1 o'clock that afternoon.   The did all my pre op stuff and took me back to the or around 3:00 for my "2 hour operation"  I remember moving over to the table and thinking wow this is brighter that the or's on tv and then thats it the next thing I know i'm in recovery waking up.   I found out as soon as I woke up that there had been a complication with my liver and half way through they had to open me instead of doing laproscopic.   I asked the nurse what time it was and she told me almost 10 o'clock.   I had been in surgery for 5 1/2 hours!   I remember thinking "oh great i'm going to take forever to recover"  the day after my surgery the nursing staff and my doctor were shocked to see me up walking in the hallways.  I hardly used my pain pump and the pain just felt like i had done a bunch of sit ups.   I was off the pain pump quickly and was only taking half the dose of oral pain meds they gave me.    Day 3 was when my post op blues hit me they decided to weigh me and the scale said i gained 20 lbs...........well I started to cry and even said I think the dr. did the wrong surgery what I had forgotten was that I had been so dehydrated that they were giving me a bag of fluid every hour so i had a ton of water weight thank god.   I was released on the morning of my 4th day and coming home was great.  The only down side is I couldn't get comfortable in bed and spent a week and a half on a recliner.   I have lost 35 lbs as of my  2 week check up.  I have chosen not to weight in between check ups for right now so i don't become obsessed.   2 days ago i put a pair of jeans that i would have to unbutton to sit comfortably in before surgery and they fell off!   I was so excited.  Yesterday I went and got my toe nails done and my nail tech mentioned how i'm more flexible now and how much easier i bend.  That plus tons of little things are happening already.    I'm so happy and I can honestly say I would do it all over again and it's only been 3 weeks :)  

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