Had the surgery, here's the update:

May 01, 2010

It looks like its been over a month since I wrote anything.  So here's the scoop:

I had my surgery on April 20.  I got there at 10:00 am.  They registered me and got me into my bed. 

Once again, they had a hard time finding veins to draw blood and place an IV.  Always the worst part of going to the Drs.  They can never find a vein.  So I got poked MANY times.  Eventually they called in the "IV SPECIALIST".  She apparantly has a knack for finding the veins.  She couldn't find it.  She poked, and nothing happened.  So she said, "I am going to try this hand.  I can't see anything, but I KNOW everyone has one there, so we'll try it."  So she was going to stab me blindly.  Nice.  But, she got it, thank goodness.

My anesthesiologist was really cool.  I thought he was from the UK but my husband thinks he was Australian.  I got rolled into the surgery room which was a bit intimidating.  They had A-Ha playing "Take on Me" on the radio.  It made me feel a little more relaxed.  The dr said, "I'm going to make you sleepy now" and that was the last thing I remember.

I woke up in the recovery room with my husband next to me.  I could hear everything, but could not open my eyes for the life of me.  So I stopped trying.  Eventually I felt them rolling me upstairs to my private room.

I was a bit out of it for a while, and eventually my family left.  I slept for a while, but about midnight I woke up and the nurse had me watch an educational video on tv about the hospital.  About 2 am I decided to try to start walking.  It hurt to get out of bed, but I really needed to use the restroom.  I shuffled my way around, then decided to venture out into the hallways.  I just walked about 30 feet then came back and went back to bed. 

Over the next day, I just kept getting up to walk around the hospital and was feeling much better and the pain went away.  Dr. Paya actually said that I could leave that day, one day after my surgery.  I was about ready to go when I suddenly got shaking chills and a slight temperature.  They kept me another night.

The next day, I left and came home.  I was feeling pretty good.  The next day I started walking at the park and did two laps around the park perimeter.  Every day since, I have been walking or doing the Wii.  Its been good.  I've had no pain, and actually wouldnt' even know that I had surgery.  

I am, however, sooo tired of liquids.  I've been ONE MONTH on a liquid diet.  I need to chew some food!  I'm looking forward to next week when I can start having creamier things like cream of chicken soup and cream of wheat cereal.  

I haven't lost much weight yet since the surgery.  Its been almost 2 weeks and I weight myself a few minutes ago.  Looks like I've lost 8.5 pounds.  Is that a normal loss?  But since I started the liquid diet, I"ve lost about 30 pounds.  Most of that was water weight though.  

I am excited my wedding ring fits now though!!!  :)

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