post-op!!

Jan 23, 2011

so i'm six days (or technically seven considering the time) post-op and i feel okay. i'd like to thank all of you that sent me messages and commented my blog post. there were a lot so i haven't gotten the opportunity to reply to them all. i haven't been on oh at all in the last week because, truth be told, i haven't really cared to be anywhere near my computer. i only spent one night at the hospital. the doctor gave me the option of taking another or going home and i chose going home because at least at home, i would be able to sleep peacefully and have jello that didn't taste like crap. they sent me percoset but let's just say that it did absolutely nothing for my pain but luckily, my doctor cleared me to use gas-x so i've used quite a few of those (no more than the recommended dosage, of course) this week and i finally feel like i'm over this whole gas hurdle. the only pain left now is the soreness in my abdomen. it hurts when i yawn, hiccup, sneeze and stretch but thankfully, it's nothing like what it was on tuesday or wednesday. hell, at the hospital it was so bad a few hours post-op that i started crying when my family came to visit me.

my family has been incredibly supportive. it's pretty cute. my dad and grandmother stayed during the surgery and then two of my aunts (the third lives in cape coral), three of my cousins and my uncle came to visit me. they brought me a fake flower and a balloon with a card. oh and one of my aunt's friends came to visit me as well which was sweet. i think i had the most packed hospital room on the floor, quite honestly. as it turns out, my family doesn't like the idea of me staying home alone for long stretches of time so i've had the aunt i live with calling me randomly during the day to check on me (my first night home from the hospital, she woke up at 4am to make sure i was okay and i was up and walking around my bedroom trying to get rid of gas), my grandmother showing up to check on me and spend a few hours with me and my other aunt randomly showing up at my house on her day off. it's really sweet but it gets annoying, not gonna lie.

before, i was sleeping a bit too much, napping during the day, etc etc but now it's like...i can't really sleep? from monday through about thursday i was taking naps in the middle of the day and going to bed early/waking up late. however, i can't nap anymore. i don't know why, but i can't. it's weird. and i miss food, i'm not going to lie. i start the pureed stage in a few hours and i'm pretty freaking excited to add some new, different things to the foods i'm allowed to eat for the sake of not killing myself from food boredom. apparently my doctor's pretty fast on the uptake when it comes to moving on to new types of food since i've heard of people being on clear liquids for 2 weeks whereas i only spent three days on them and then three more on full liquids. i'll be on pureed foods for a week and soft foods for two weeks before moving on to solid food.

i'm a little scared. i haven't dumped or thrown up or anything like that but i've had a couple of bad reactions, like when i tried to down too much of a protein shake i made with milk. not a good idea. i find when i make it with water, it goes down easier, i guess because it ended up being more like protein fruit juice than anything else. 

it's late, though, and i should really try getting some sleep. thank you again to those of you who reached out to me in comments and messages and i'm sorry that i haven't responded but for those of you that are post-op, i'm sure you can understand why.

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