Good luck piglet

On your up coming surgery on June 2....

See  you on the loosing side.

Brenda 

Thanks Brenday!

Did you lose any more weight and how are you doing? Are you back at work yet?
My surgery is actually Wednesday June 3rd, close enough hehe.
Ive been really strict with this ensure diet, BTW were you able to follow to the T the ensure diet you ???
I thought it would of been harder, but nope its manageable, thank goodness.
I lost so far 12.6 pounds so far.

Have a good day

:) Hey Piglet--best wishes to you...Just a few more days...How exciting! Thanks for letting us preops know that the diet is not that as hard as you imagined. That is the part I am most nervous about...it sound so crazy :)
I am so excited for you to lose another 12.6 pounds...absolutely wonderful. That is almost a pound a day?
Were you on 2 or 3 week ensure? Was there anything else you were able to eat/drink like skim milk?

Hey, thanks so much.
I know it seems unreal, It hasnt really kicked in as of yet. the ensure diet wasnt as hard, I cant say it was a piece of cake cause it wasnt. They were a couple days I felt like quitting but then i kept pushing forward. It paid off, I was also really constipated this week, my dietician advised me to take metamucil and now Im feeling a lot better, thank god.
I did the 2 weeks 14 days of 4 cans of ensure per day plus 2 cups of skim milk with it. I can also have water and as much calorie free beverages.
Good luck to anyone else that is close to surgery or liquid pre-op diets.
Cecile.
Ill keep you guys posted when I get of of hosp[ital probably next Thursday,
Cherrs.

Hi

Still recooping at home but feeling much better. My incision is starting to close but still about half an inch deep. If it weren't for that I would be running and jumping around.

As for weight loss..not sure...I was foolish and stepped on the scale a week after surgery...7 lbs up...but my stomach was still very large and swollen..my ankles were kankles and I was so full of fluid from the hospital...a no no!!


So I am not stepping on the scale till I have my first follow up with Dr Birch on June 8. If my inciision isnt't completely closed by that time, then I will book a nother week off....which Ican surely do.

So all in all..I have started solid foods....my first was soup with 2 crushed crackers...yummmy.

Then in the morning I had one scrambled egg with a litle milk...ate almost all of it and was satisfied...I think I am still swollen inside though..so not sure if it was  a true fill or  a combination of swollen and fill....then I had 1 oz of grilled chicken and a small block of cheese....mmmm...chewed well and no problems....today I will continue with the chicken and for lunch and add a cracker or two....chew chew....

All is good though.

Good luck and let us know how it goes...your recovery will be much faster than mine.

Hugs

Brenda