You can purchase these off e-bay.  Just look up gastric bypass surgery on there.

Jacque

 

i have to be at the hospital at 12:10 to be operated on at about 1:40 on monday (11/10).  i have to work tomorrow and then i am off til atleast december 1.  getting nervous.

angie

awww Dar.....I hope you start to feel a bit better after a few more days. Idont know what it is like for you to have an open RNY since mine was laproscopic! You tough through it girl!!

Hugs
kelly

day 2 for me, a little better but still torture, good thing is I am down 4 pounds must be water but who cares the scale says 4 pounds down I am happy only 12 more miserable days.

Well I thought that I would share about my experience in case anyone was cuious. 

I had to be at the hospital at 5:15 for a 7:30 surgery.  I stayed up the night before because I knew that I wouldn't be able to sleep at all.  Everything went smoothly although the guy that was taking my blood screwed up several times which was a first for me.  I have good veins on my right side and he insisted on taking from my left and putting the iv on my left.  I wonder if that really mattered or what.   I have terrible bruises from he bad work. 

While in the waiting room just before surgery I started to get very nervous and even cried some.  After such a long journey to get to that point I didn't thikn I would be that scared but I was. 

I can remember going into the operating room and laying down on the table them telling me how my arms will be put to the sides then I remember waking up in the recovery room.  While in recovery my first few minutes I was scared because I felt like I couldn't get a deep breath in basically because it hurt.  I was teling them I couldn't breath and they said I was fine so I ended up telling myself to try and calm down and try and fall asleep because it would go away which it did.  I just couldn't fill my lungs up because it hurt too much. 

I was in recovery for many hours till they finally got me a room.  My doctor came up and walked with me.  It hurt pretty bad and I hated it.  I kept telling my doctor that it sucked and he was laughing. 

The whole hospital experience was uneventful for the most part.  I was lucky enough to get my own room.  I was in a lot of pain the whole time and had to request pain meds several times.  The floor had many other weight loss patients oddly enough and I was the youngest.  lol The only really crazy thing that happened to me was after they removed the catheter I couldn't urinate.  So after like 8 hours of not urinating they had to scan my bladder and decided to put another catheter in to drain it.  That was not cool at all since I was wide awake and pretty much knew the nurse and PCA.  My bladder was very full though so I suppose it was a good thing.  But after that I couldn't urinate again so after another 8 hours of not going I had to get another catheter and again my bladder was full.  So thankfully after the second time I have been able to go fine by myself but that really stunk. 

Overall my hospital experience was great because the staff was fantastic.  Everyone of them were great.  I was very lucky that they were all so nice. 

I got home yesterday and I am not doing too great.  I am super sore.  I can find a postition that is not too bad but overall I am on the high end of being in pain.  I had prepared myself to be okay with the pain because I have had a child and thought that was not that bad but I was wrong because I am in horrendous pain at times.  Now that said I know this will still be worth it.  I am still happy with my decision but I feel sorry for myself that I read some people are just on tylenol post op and feel great.  That is totally not the case for me.  I haven't eaten anything and I am struggling to get my liquids in.  The pain is making me feel nauseated and the discomfort is all I can think about. 

I don't want to discourage anyone with my pain issues because I know from reading that my pain is apparently not all that common.  I had planned on trying to get back to my regular life some this weekend but I don't think that is going to happen unless I can go to the cub scout meeting in my bathrobe.  lol

Well that is all I can think of to share.  I would be happy to answer any questions if you have any.  And if you are post op with the pain I am having please share because more and more I am worried I am by myself in that boat.