Courtney

Hey Honey,

I know you said you were taking your laptop with you to the hospital, so I wanted to check in. You are probably still woozy and sleeping, but when you're not....


GET UP AND WALK!!!!!

Welcome to the loser's bench.

Yes, WALK WALK WALK!!!  It's an ordeal when you're still having to drag that monitor and drip around with you, but I swear it'll make you feel better and speed up the healing process.

LET US HEAR FROM YOU!!!! 

I hope today finds you all right, and I third the walking suggestion!!!!!  Don't be afraid to take a nap between your laps up and down the hall. :)

I'm still so thrilled for you!!

Hi!

I hope you're seeing this and feeling as well as can be expected in a place like the hospital! 

We are all so super excited to have you on the loser's bench!

I know you're going to do fantastic!

Walk, walk, walk to get the soreness worked out and your system all woken back up and working properly again!

See you Thursday!!!

Wen

HELLO ALL!!!

Im on the losers bench now..... yaaaaayyyy!!!! . i Havent been on the computer like I said I would be, becausee I was sleepy!!! LOL........ Aweeeeee.... Your ALL ARE SO  so sweet... Yeah,I got sick with a feevr and worried people.. i am in a lot of pain, but thats my drain.... as far as the surgery, None at all.... only a lil when I cough.... im on ice chips right  now,jello tomorrow......

yes I did 10 laps today... it does help with gas.... oh man I have alot...  Dr. Baker told me to cough and deep breath... It hurts so bad, but I am needing to because of the fever which was caused by the mucus he said... I will see you all Thur... Hopefully i will be out of the hospital by then..... we will see..... Love yah

My mom had fever right after her surgery too.  (She definately was NOT deep breathing and coughing enough.  But when she started, that fever started going down and went away.  It took a full day though!) 

That coughing is what made me hurt post-op too!  I felt like I had done a zillion sit-ups & everytime I coughed, those muscles seemed to be the EXACT ones used for those zillion sit-ups I hadn't done!  LOL  I had pain from the constant hiccups I was prone to for whatever reason as an immediate post-op.  (Leave it to me to have something weird like constant hiccups begin after surgery.  Every hiccup used to afore-mentioned muscles.)

My mom had horrible gas with her surgery too.  I didn't have any.  She had LAP though and I had open.  I don't remember which you had, but either way - that will get better. 

See you Thursday!!!

Wen

YES!!! After I got over the pain of deep breathing and coughing, My fever went away... OOOO It still hurts =( and yes, my arms are sore from doing the pull-ups I did in bed with the nifty little bar... LOL... I walked a lot.... I actually walked the night I was in Intermediate care... 2 times!!! Yaaayyyy I was proud of myself and made ther nurse there her star patient she said... Gas went away after I did laps.. My pain was a 4 And theres a ifty sign hanging in my room that said if your pain is a 4, were walking the floor.... LOL... And it was very true.... thats the 1st thing I would tell Pre-ops now to deep bresth and cough, and to WALK.... Thanks for being the WONDERFUL Post-ops to tell me that everyone... I had LAP RNY And dad told me he told them that he did Proximal on me...

Sorry I wasnt there =( i WAS too sore and needed to go home because of the weather....

So glad to hear you're doing ok. Take care of yourself and hope to see you tomorrow. But, don't pu****!  I'll call the desk before leaving for the meeting, and if you're still in the bed, I'll come to you!

Big, gentle hugs!

susan, I got discharged because the weather was getting bad back home so we headed home... and I wasnt feelling so great either.. I was needing to have a BM, but wasnt able to have a solid one back in the hspital, but did pass A LOT of gas which was great, and whenn I got home, I had a BM... Praise the Lord.... I felt so much better....
my follow up with Dr. Baker is April 7th so I will be at the meeting then... Yaaaaayyyyyyyyy!!!

Hugs back to you also....

YAY!!! So glad to hear from you! Keep up the good work. I hated the breathing exercises, but my mom is a respiratory therapist so I knew what would happen should I decide to adopt shallow breathing instead! 

At Dr.Roller's seminar, I was asked if I had any pain immediately post-op. My reply...."I had MORPHINE!"

Drugs are good!!! I went in with the mindset that I was nothing special if I went through this entire process with minimal pain meds. No one was going to give me an award or give me a pat on the back. No reason to be in pain if you don't have to be so I loaded up! I was still able to walk, but I slept well and that helped me recover.

Keep us updated on how you're doing!