Post-Op survival kit for us 1st timers...Ideas needed

Tylers_mom
on 11/7/09 12:35 am, edited 11/7/09 12:37 am - Bel Air, MD
Okay my RNY surgery is scheduled this month and I want to know if you had a survival kit when you first came home what would've been in it?  I just want to make sure I can prepare for much as possible.

Gina

        

Tylers_mom
on 11/7/09 12:36 am - Bel Air, MD
ladybugnessa
on 11/7/09 12:41 am - Owings Mills, MD
a recliner for resting and sleeping
booties for your feet
small cups for sipping. (find a cup you love and make it a fav
cordless phone so you don't have to get up  (include cell phone and remote for tv)
chapstick
loose easy to remove clothing (so when the urge to potty hits you can go fast)
Nessa
Ticker is from Day of Surgery.. weight goal is personal preference as I've MET my doctor's goal

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HG/SW/CW/GW
286/253/150/151


Pamela D.
on 11/7/09 3:38 am

liquid tylenol

my surgeon's nurse also recommended getting up and down out of bed while hugging a pillow.  it was a great suggestion.  i hugged one all the way home in the car.  it really does work as a shock absorber!
 

    
Brandi M.
on 11/7/09 4:32 am - Baltimore, MD
Sugar-free popsicles were a God-send for me.

Crash220
on 11/7/09 6:16 am - Reisterstown, MD
ANYTHING that will keep you from coughing, sneezing, or puking,, all hurt like a,,, ummm,, well you know.

Tom
People laugh because I'm different, I laugh because they are all the same



Crash220
on 11/7/09 7:36 pm - Reisterstown, MD
Let me clarify the puking,,, the pain pump meds made me dry heave,, not a good thing.

Tom
People laugh because I'm different, I laugh because they are all the same



ladybugnessa
on 11/7/09 8:39 pm - Owings Mills, MD
we had liquid Roxicet for DH but since I'm allergic to the percocet family I got liquid Vicodan  I only had to take it for two days....  

make sure you have  all the stuff you doc wants you to have too....


Nessa
Ticker is from Day of Surgery.. weight goal is personal preference as I've MET my doctor's goal

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HG/SW/CW/GW
286/253/150/151


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