hi honeys...im home

welp...
everything went well!!! i had surgery yesterday (monday) morning and got home today about 5pm yay!!!
i am VERY VERY naucious so i will need to call the surgeon to have her call something in...can hardly take it..
other than that...im doing pretty good!
"sparkling_dawn" was doin' better when i left, but she had a really bad night last night...thats my night today...maybe i shouldn't have fought so hard to come home, huh?
gotta go sick sick sick to my stomach!...need to puke
thanks!!
pam

If you felt good enough to go home, you are doing awesome!  I can only hope I do as well!  Good luck!

Karen

 Congratulations Pam!!!!  I'm so glad that you finally got to have your surgery.  I know the waiting is so hard.  Hang in there, things will get better.  You've had a long road to get to this point but you did it.  Way to go!!!!

Duane

Hooray!  You made it to the other side! 

Sorry you're sick - probably after effects of anesthesia.  Takes a while to get all that out of your system.

Walk and sip!

Congrats!! You have been thru alot to get to this point.,.. The KEY word is SIP!!  smalllllll swallows of protien, or water...

Be well..

Linda Kay

Very excited for you Pam I hope you get to feeling better very soon !!!!

Jamie

Pammie
Im so glad everything went okay.
There is no place like home..
Huggs and small sips

well here's a funny!!!
yesterday morning, i woke up and seriously thought that I was in Walton, Indiana and was spose to be going to yesterday for my WLS...i began to freak out...touched my tummy and looked around @ everything and FINALLY realized that i wasnt a dream...it FINALLY happened!!!
although since i had surgery, my vision is HORRIBLE??? anyone else have this problem???

Pam I was extremely nausiated like that, so much so that even the nausea meds in my IV were not helping.  I started to throw up on day two or three, and it really slowed down my recovery. It took me at least a month to feel half way descent after surgery and I watched my neighbor have surgery a couple months later and was shopping five days after.   I had some blood in my vomit so that also kept me in the hospital for five days, the nurse was scared it was a blood clot and she had me and my hubby so freaked out it wasn't funny.  I think it was just blood from the cut they made to seperate my belly though.

However, it turned out to be a reaction to the pain meds, when they switched me from dilaudid to morphine the nausea went away.  I took only tylenol once I was home for fear of being sick again.  So maybe you can talk to your surgeon about switching your pain meds, although I think some nausea just comes with this type of surgery.  I was on a nausea med for 90 days following surgery and never had any nausea to speak of after I came home.

On the vision thing..yep.  Took magazines with me to the hospital and was too blurry to read them.  I still have days when I can't see right.

Jeannie

WITH THE NAUSEA AND vision you dont have something in lay a way as my mother would say?????????Glad its all over as its been a loooooooooooong road to get here for you....With the pain RX etc are you SURE you werent clicking your heels together and saying THERE IS NO PLACE LIKE WALTON INDIANA (whereever the heck that is!) over and over? ha

Keep the sipping/walking and talking going

Keith