Two more days

So got a little thrill when I look in my boxes of protein bars and realized I only have enough left for two days!  I got stuffed up this evening and freaked out thinking I was getting a cold. The nurse said that they won't do the surgery even if you are just stuffed up from a cold!  But then my daughter left the room and it seems to be clearing now. Think it was just allergies from something perfumy she was wearing. Whew!  Wouldn't want to go through all this and have to postpone the surgery!  So proud of myself...for the first time, I am controlling what I eat and not the other way around!  I didn't cheat at all through the preop shake prep. 

that is such awesome news. you have done great. you are prob all done surgery or just about by now.

it's great you didnt cheat. if you dont stick to the diet before hand and your liver doesnt shrink enough (one of the purposes of the pre diet shakes) they will close you up and send you on your way, surgery free, at lease that is what my dr. told me. so it sounds like you will prob not go home early lol

Good luck, my advice is that everyone's experience is different so don't compare yourself with any one or have any expectations on how easy or hard this is going to be. I was expecting something much different than what I got after surgery after some others good experiences but mine was not so great. All in all I came through it and wouldn't change a thing, except......well,I would make sure that I got pain meds right away instead of 12 or so hours later which I had to ask for as they were not giving me any???????? and I would know to take stool softeners right away and avoid 9 days of misery with no BM. Those would be my two pieces of advice. Best of luck! See you on the losers bench!

Monique said that they don't give pain meds for the trip because it doesn't work on the gas pain. Is that the pain you had, or was it the actual incision site of the stomach or little holes?  What did you take for stool softeners?

Hi, I'm talking immediately after surgery from early afternoon after my surgery until early hours of the morning I was not given any pain meds and I was in pain so I don't know why they weren't giving me any. I hear on this site that in some hospitals patients get pain pumps that they can push a button to get meds when ever they need it. I dont think I needed that but it was a big surgery so not being given any pain meds seems really crazy to me and I was puking and dry heaving like crazy so that was really hard on my new stomach.  Once I started getting the meds I stayed on them for the week, used the whole Rx that Dr B gave me. I used Senekot for the stool softeners you could ask for a Rx from Dr B as they would really help with what surgery and pain meds do to your stomach and bowels. after all my other surgeries like my 3 C sections and Hernia repair I remember always being given stool softeners along with pain meds so I'm not sure why Dr B doesn't automatically give them but they were exactly what I needed and nothing else OTC helped. I hope it goes well for you, Best of luck!