3 Days out of Surgery

Jul 13, 2013

I had my surgery on 7/10.  I was so nervous about surgery to be honest.  My biggest fear was that I had not lost enough weight and my liver was still too large and the surgeon would not complete my surgery.  Apparently these fears were totally groundless.  I ended up loosing 15 lbs on my pre op diet.  Dr Acheson told me that I was a textbook case and that my liver probably looked better than his!  Boy was I relieved.  I was only conscious enough when I got to the o.r. to tell my surgeon hello and recognize his assistant as Dr Marquez and tell him how much weight I had lost pre op.  I woke up later in my room to someone trying to add that trapeze bar to my bed.  They moved me around so much and it hurt.  I am pretty sure I told them to stop it and that it hurt.  They ended up not adding the bar to my bed because it was not needed. :) Immediately after surgery I was in a great deal of pain.  I think a lot of that was because I was full of gas and it was in between the anesthesia and the post op pain control. Between not drinking the whole day and the anti nausea patch they put behind my ear, my mouth felt like a desert.  I was not allowed to drink anything until my upper GI barium test the next morning.  I got around that by gargling with water and spitting it out. That really helped. I came home the day after surgery in the afternoon. I am so lucky to have a grandma who loves me so much.  She bought me a recliner because I was certain that I would be unable to lie down in my bed.  I have been pretty much glued to that recliner since I came home :)

So here we are 3 days out.  I am still having some trouble with getting in all of my liquids.  I haven't even started on the protein shakes.  I do miss eating at times and when my family eats I think I am hungry, but in all reality I am not. This is what they call head hunger. My husband Luke has been the single most important component of recovery.   He has done everything for me and is always asking if he can do anything for me.  I have had great support from my friends and family.  Yeah this clear liquid part has been pretty shitty so far.  The way that I see it is that I need this time to learn how to deal with my head hunger and how to pay attention to my body and its real needs rather than what my addiction demands.  Oh wait I did get some protein.  Stupid fly flew down my throat and I swallowed it LOL.

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