Hi Joe! Welcome to the boards! I had my RNY surgery on 12/4 also! They had a small problem during surgery with bleeding, apparently I'm a bleeder and didnt even know it! They had to go back in to stop some bleeding, so I'm still having some pain on my left side, but it is about 500x better now than it was originally! I cant believe you are on solid food already! What I wouldnt do for solid food right now! I'm still on full liquids and dont even get to move to pureed foods until Christmas Day! Best of Luck to you! Tracy

Congratulations! I had my RNY Dec 14th. All went well I came home on the 15th. We're both on our way to health! Take care Janis

Congratulations, I had lap band on the 12th too. I'm doing great. Down 11 lbs already. How about you?

My November surgery was postponed. I had the surgery on Dec 12th and came home on the 13th at 12:30 for the 2 hour trip back home to Sacramento

It is really hard to get through that period...gosh I still cant stand cream of wheat and mashed potatoes lol BUT you will get through it and just remember that every day that goes by you will get closer to normalcy. I had a very hard time with the protein drinks,I tried them all and they all suck! but the good news is,after you start on solid foods you will be able to eat protein bars instead if you want. Something you may try with your drinks is to put the drink and ice in a blender and the crushed ice seems to make it much more bare- able...also Im sure you know this, but always,always take your vitamins at this period especially it is very important for your health. Something I did that made that more easy to do is I bought the flintstone gummy vitamins with iron,they are yummy and have only a few calories and most of all its like gettting a treat!you can actually stand to chew these up instead of those chalky ones...(yuck). Also they are supposed to have as much vitamins as ones like centrum complete.....you can get you some sugar free pop cycles, and I got one of the microwave bowls of campbells chicken noodle soup and then a bunch of cans of it...then i would reuse the microwave bowl to drain it and drink the broth!it was sooo much better than the broth alone. But anyhow, these are just a things I did,I dont know if it helps or not but I hope so! Just hang in there! It will get better...best wishes!