One week is down and the rest of my life ahead!!!

May 29, 2012

I am a day later posting as surgery was a week ago but yesterday was Memorial Day and I was lounging poolside surrounded by friends and family! I am happy to say, I was thrown into the shopping for our cookout and didn't crave, may have wanted a bite, but didn"t crave!! Maybe it is because this is starting week 4 of liquids and now it just seems normal?!? I ate my greek yogurt while everyone else feasted;-) So, some thoughts about my first week following rny: the surgery went absolutely fine and my surgeon was able to find and repair a hiatal hernia that had not shown up with my EGD- I am very grateful and happy with that as the chest pain/back pain episodes were excruciating and he believes that is why they were occuring. Without the rny, may never have known and I would have continued the horror and a 100 tests I cannot afford!! I have been pain free since right after surgery!! I was a model patient using my morphine PCA, lol! Have needed no narcotics since I left the hospital last Thursday. Fluids were a struggle days 2-4 postop and you just have to trust them and do it!!! The dehydration and urinary retention was FAR worse than sipping 4 ounces an hour. I was told that within a few day the it would suddenly "click" and the fluids would just be right, do-able and I would just know it. That day was Saturday, postop day 5. That seemed to be a spring forward with this journey, not caught in the "surgery week" anymore. My emotions resolved as well after a lot of support all around, letting some tears just fall and probably all of the strong meds clearing out of me. I know there will be some more lows, besides my falling weight, lol, but I feel better about it since I have now felt what does happen!! Recognition helps so much!!!! Head hunger occurs a little bit but am so relieved at how much easier it is to recognize and dismiss it and move on without much of a struggle now that physical hunger is gone- YES IT IS GONE , since sx day!!! Took me until Friday to get rid of some extra fluid and back to sx weight. Since then, I am losing, about 7 pounds between Friday and Monday- very happy with that!! My husband and two young daughters have been great and that is a giant help!! Hubby even confided in my neighbors he has a much bigger respect for all that I do here at home as he was run ragged while I was an in-patient and that was just running the girls, no cleaning, housework, cooking!!! Hahahaha!! Is that considered an NSV?? So, I am feeling so good, I am going back to work tomorrow!!! Had planned to go back next Wednesday but I am ready and got my surgeon's go ahead, with common sense restrictions. Will do half day until first postop appt. next week. The first week, while having some lows, had far more positives and I am blessed to be on this journey!!!

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