Jodjr,

Thanks for reminding of the instant breakfast mix, gonna, have my husband grab some for me tomorrow.....I am so happy right now. I know I will be able to stomach those. 

I was suppose to return to work tomorrow, but I stopped by there on Friday and explain that things just weren't going as I had thought that they would and they told me to take as much as I needed as long I as and getting better, I think next week I will be up to going back. 

You are right the worst is behind us!! Thanks for the help again!!!

 Not sure if I am happy or still confused....its been a tough week to be honest. Once I got home from the hospital I had a few days were I wasn't sure I made the right choice, its been hard to take care of myself and my kids at the same time with the holiday and everything but my husband has been doing his best. Yesterday was my first day without pain meds, and no brake down...I am doing so so today....I can't seem to get any protein drinks in they just turn my stomach but I am at least eating and drinking water normally now, well normally for a week out, I wish I could get a little more of everything in but I think for the 1st week I am doing good. 

Any suggestion? I see everyone for my 2 week follow up after the new year and I feel like I am going to go a little crazy by that time. My family is being so understanding and great but at the same time I don't have anyone close who knows what I am going through.

Thanks for reading.
Just needed to get it off my chest before it eat away at me.
Nancy

 Ha Ha...as I am reading posts...I am new here, joined today...I realize we were in the same Lifestyle class with Peter.... :)

I went home on Wednesday afternoon. Still sore but getting better each day. Not taking any pain meds, sucking it up...lol  Oh lots of gas too!!!

The problem with recommending protein powders is that what tastes good to me may taste like barf to you. As long as you know that, then I'm a vanilla girl and I finally settled on Isopure zero carb vanilla. It seems to work good as a base for many different add ins and doesn't taste gritty at all. Plus you can get it at GNC which means no shipping charges from buying off the Internet. Other folks may have other suggestions, but I'm just a basic vanilla shake person who uses sugar free syrups, fruit and other things to add interesting textures and favors to my now occasional shakes.

One recommendation that I used was to buy a bunch of samples of protein powder from Vitalady online. Then when I came home from the hospital I had a bunch of samples to try.

As for vitamins, I use Centrum Silver chewables as my multi, B12 sublinguals I get from Walmart, Vitacost chewable calcium citrate from Vitacost (online), Natrol D3 from drugstore.com, Feosol iron from Walmart and chewable C from any drugstore or Walmart. I also take generic Colaese, Magnesium Oxide, and a generic probiotic. I need to set up a list of prices and purchase places so I can be prepared before I run out!

Anyway, that's my routine, I hope you can find some of it useful.