Hehe  I can relate!  I wasn't required to do a pre-op diet either, but I DO have to drink a bottle of magnesium citrate tomorrow evening (so gross!).

Anyway... Let me be the first to say Congratulations on your wls and Best Wisher for a speedy recoevery!!  

Congrats everyone and Best Wishes for a speedy recovery!  I'll be joining y'all in two short days.

I'm set for the 19th too!

Laproscopic RNY at UCSF (University of California, San Francisco) Med Center.

Good luck everyone!!!


redsnapper - I love your ticker! I'm going to have to copy it! =)

Hi Craig!  hopefully since today is Monday you got your stiches and tubes out.  You walked a lot more than me - 8-10 times a day is fantastic.  Sounds like you are getting in really good shape.  I hated walking in the hospital and only did it a few times.  I'm able to walk about 15 minutes around my neighborhood and on Saturday I went food shopping with my teenage daughter - she did the pushing and lifting - it took about an hour and i was beat when it was done.  Thank goodness the rest of the family put the groceries away and i just took it easy the rest of the day!

Not looking forward to returning to work but i have another week to get my energy up.  I have never been so "lazy" before.  but i guess its better to rest and fully recover than to pu****  I work as an IT manager so there's not much physical work - mostly stressful  and a lot of meetings. 

After the stiches were out the nurse put on some steri-strip and i had to buy some Tagaderm (sp?) to put over it for a few days so it wouldn't get wet.  Now i can shower without it and wait for the steri-strip to wear off,  The scar looks a lot better without the stitches.  

How is your appetite?  Today i am forcing myself to drink a shake and haven't eaten anything even though its past noon and other times, when i am eating my pureed food with my family i am hungry and want more.  weird.... i guess seeing the old yummy stuff makes me hungry. 

Let me know how you did today at the doctor.  I accepted your friend request - hope i did it right.  i think its great that we can talk about our mutual experience as we move along this journey! 

Mary

Hope you are doing well, my surgery was May 11 also.  So far so good for me, though I never thought I would be so excited about getting to eat pureed food on my 8th day postop,