WHEW! Ok so Thank you to everyone! and It is still ON! He didn't even look at my Journal! He just looked at me and said You look smaller! so that was nice.. He looked tired... He also said he would fill out my medical leave forms after surgery and that YES! 6 weeks off! I am so happy bout that.. with the heavy lifting at work, I did not want to go back too early! I start my Pre-op Liquid diet on Sunday.. I even have a bit of flexibility with that.. 100 calories and a few carbs to play with!

It was nice running into you and prplady today!

Yeah they gave me and Jaynak the wrong times, and I ended up arriving early.

I'm getting ready to start exercising right away starting with a walk tonight!

Still haven't ate much. Just 1/2 an iced tea and a 1/2 cup of skim milk.

I cannot wait until I am further out to try some wonderful WLS recipes.

 I finally had my RNY surgery done on Monday afternoon!!!!  The first night was pretty rough, but since then things have gotten way better and I am so happy that I did this!!!!

For anyone having RNY surgery with Dr. Sampath make sure that you check the time with his office.  They called me a few days before my scheduled date and gave me a time to be at the hospital, well, they gave me the WRONG time!!!!  I got a call from the hospital about 9:30 in the morning wondering where I was as I was suppose to be there an hour before, but I had been told by Dr. Sampath's staff to be at the hospital at 11am for surgery at 1pm!!!!!  It all worked out because his other patient was also given the wrong time and was there waiting already, but I really thought for a few minutes that they were going to cancel my surgery.  So if you're having a RNY done he prefers to do that surgery before he does the sleeve surgery, so an arrival time of 11am for an RNY patient may be the wrong time!!!!

Now I just can't wait to get home to Kamlops and see my kiddos for the first time in a week!!!!

Jayna

 Congrats on your surgery and recovery so far!!!!!  It was nice to get to meet and talk with you!!!!!   I look forward to hearing how your journey goes as we both continue down this road!!!!  Jayna

So I got home from the hospital a couple hours ago. I quickly took a long shower and reapplied a bandage to one laproscopic wound where my drainage thingy was.

I'm a little dizzy and disoriented from so many hours in a hospital bed, and not being in such a well lit place with lots of sunlight.

I bought an ice-t from Starbucks at the hospital, and in 2 hours haven't even drank half of it..not able to!

Dr. Sampath told me this morning that the first couple of weeks, you really want to take it easy...drink fluids slowly with the gas trapped inside of you and the swelling. Some people, he said, eat too much early on, and actually bust their staples before they even heal.

The pre-op liquid diet helped physically and mentally prepare me for this stage.

I think it'll probably be winter by the time I start eating meals again.

I'm surprised there isn't much pain though. Last night, I stopped taking my painkillers and i'm not feeling that differently.