Sarah S.
It's weird
May 30, 2009
It's weird to think that this time last month I still hadn't heard anything from the hospital and now I'm recovering from surgery. I haven't been on here a while so I might update everyone with my situation.I was told in October 07 that I should consider weight loss surgery because I have alot of health problems with my lungs and if I were to ever need a transplant at least then I would be in good enough shape and would have a better chance of survival - Never even thought about wls before then so I was shocked when my pulmonologist dr said that. So I thought about it and thought it would be great but knew I could never afford it. I didn't have a job, I didn't have private insurance so if I was going to get it, it would be because I won lotto lol. So that january (08) I got a call saying to come in and see the endocronologist for some reason and he said got me an appointment with the surgeon that actually does the lapband at my hospital. Fast forward to may 08 and I signed the consent forms to have surgery, I was supposed to be on the category 2 list which was 3-6 months. so that would of been end of november, still hadn't heard anything at that time and then got a call saying that I was approved for around december. That didn't happen, then was screwed around a little more and got an actual date - March 17th - 6 days before my 21st.
So I did the preop diet for 2 weeks as required, and then on the 14th I think, I got a call from the surgeons nurse saying that I was being postponed (which I always knew was a possibility but hearing that made it 100 times worse) because there where cancer patients that needed urgent surgery but that I was on the side line in case they couldn't have surgery. So up until that point I had been paranoid about surgery, having alot of doubts about whether this was the right thing for me. So i went in on the 17th and it just clicked at that time, I was so worried about the outcome but the only possible outcome is that I'm going to be healthy. So surgery didn't happen and I was put on the list again for the 31st of March. That came around and I rang my hospital on the 30th to find out what time I needed to go in and when I rang they said that I wasn't even on a list. So that was pretty horrible hearing that - I'd done the preop for a month for absolutely no reason.
So I got over it, I continued to eat, I didn't gain weight (although I felt like I had) and then I got a call this month on the 1st saying that my surgery was schedulled for the 12th. I didn't really know whether or not to take it seriously. I didn't start the preop until the 3rd and even then I cheated (anyone in my case would have) so I went into hospital on the 12th & here I am.
Coming out of anaesthesia is always bad for me, I just react to it horribly for some reason so when I woke up, my stomach muscles where convulsing and I thought I was going to be sick, thankfully the nurses gave me the anti-nausea medication and all that came up was burping from the gas. The first 3 days where so slow for me, I walked half the speed I normally do and had such dry lips because of the dehydration. Then I went onto mushies on the 26th and at the moment my energy is at an all time low, hopefully it'll come back up again soon but right now it sucks - Especially when you get 10 hours sleep and then 2 hours later you feel like you could go back to bed again.
So that's my story. If you're in the process of getting surgery and wondering if it's the right thing for you, I think it's right for anyone that needs to be healthy, no matter which surgery you're having as long as you know it's the right thing for you then you shouldn't worry about anything else.
Sarah
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