I am home!

It feels really good to be home again. I really enjoyed my visit from Patti and Kathy K. Thanks you guys!!! As Kathy mentioned, we all took a couple of laps around the nurses station. Courtney ,another girl, Cynthia and I all had surgery on the 21st and we all did well. I was very nervous but just took one minute at a time until the next thing I knew I was in the recovery room! The only glitch I had was that my morphine drip wasn't working and I was stuck in the recovery room for about 6 hours because they couldn't find a bed! At one point they moved me and I remember screaming out loud in pain it hurt so bad. Finally I got a room and the nurse noticed that my machine wasn't working and boy did it feel good to get some pain meds at last! PHEW! The day after surgery was probably the worst as far as discomfort and pain goes. I think because I was still pretty doped up and tired. But the next day was a completely different story. Things were much better. All the tubes and catheters are gone and I was moving around a lot better and felt a lot more alert. Plus a shower really helped! I tolerated all the fluids well and today I drank 2 protein drinks. So far, so good! So Joanie, I will start posting in the food logs tomorrow! I am feeling pretty good and looking forward to losing a lot of weight now WAHOO! I am a POST OP at last! Thanks for all your good thoughts and prayers for me. It would have been very hard going into this without all the great support from these boards and my family and friends. Happy to be home, Terri

Good to have you back Terri! My best advice is wear that binder faithfully! And yes, I expect to see you on the food long tomorrow. I could not drink protein drinks for a week...you are doing great! Welcome Home-- Joanie

thanks Joanie, I try to keep the binder on as much as possible until I can't take the itching anymore. It does help a lot so I will keep trying. thanks for the welcome home terri

Terri, I read somewhere to put a t-shirt UNDER the binder...it helped with the itching! Joanie

Terri, Congratulations on making it to the losing side. I hope to join you there soon. I can totaly identify with the recovery room situation since something similar happened to me when I had my thyroid gland removed. Take it easy.......... Linda

Linda, Thanks very much for the good wishes. I am sorry you had to go through a bad pain experience too. That was so awful, I am just glad I still had enough anestesia(sp?) in my system to make it a little less memorable. Terri

Hi Terri, Welcome Home! Sorry 'bout your pain! Welcome to the "losing side"! JA

thanks JA!

Congratulations and Welcome Home!!! I'm happy that things went so well for you. Maggie

thanks Maggie!! Terri