I was writing my new found friend this morning and thought I should blog about my experience so far. So I am 5 days out and feeling good. The day of surgery was so excited. I went into the hospital confident that I was not going to any complications and so far so good. I had tons of family visit me that day. I even managed to walk around 3 times (the first 2 walks were every short). I was surprised how I was not even hungry and didn’t mind not having anything by mouth. The next day I had water and it was so good as my throat was sore from the breathing tube they put in while in surgery. The nurse also gave me some Jello but I could not eat it (way too sweet). My final day in the hospital and the doctor said I could be on full liquids since I was able to drink water fine. I have a small spoon of oatmeal and yogurt and thought I was in heaven. Friday night and Saturday was good at home. I drank as much water as possible and slept. Yesterday was a different story. So I was told I could drink protein shakes in the full liquid stage. I made one yesterday (added 1 tsp of chocolate syrup). I decided to take my pain pill with the protein. I was not paying attention and drunk too much. Oh damn it felt stuck. I had to lay down and did not get up for a few hours. Once I did get up, I still felt like something was stuck but needed to drink some water. My family was being an ass and didn’t do something as promised. I cried because I was mad at my family, because I felt sick and because then I wanted to eat and couldn’t. I wanted a cheese burger, a cookie, some ice cream, everything under the sun. I did manage to leave the house for an hour to get the kids food from Mcdonalds and some sugar free popsicles from the store. When I got back, they ate and I had oatmeal and felt so much better. I also had 2 popsicles and felt even better. I think the popsicles were affecting my blood sugar so I stayed up late drinking plain water. The end! Doesn’t sound so bad now that I type it out but I thought I was living in hell yesterday. Today I am also doing good. I managed to take a shower by myself (my tub is super high) and haven’t taken any pain pills. I got on the Wii to weigh myself because my scale is broken and I lost 14 pounds.

I was 298 the day of surgery

I was 305 the day I left the hospital

Today I am 291