I'm home and feeeeeeling great

My surgery was on Monday, Aug. 6th at St.Vincent Charity. I was operated on at 7:30 am and that night around 9 pm I was walking the halls with my nurse. AMAZING!! Then on Tuesday, a storm went thru downtown Cleveland and the power at the hospital went out. At one point, even the backup generator failed. All I could think of those poor people in surgery. The nurses on my floor were wonderful. They kept checking on all the patients and making sure we were all ok and not frightened. It got pretty dark for 10 am.... Well, its Saturday and I'm sitting at my computer with some applesauce and thinking about some soup. I've had no problems at all...no nausea, no pain, just twinges where the steri tape is. If ya have any questions, send me an email. I'll try to answer all your questions. One more thing...Dr. Ben Meir is great!!

Congratulations!!! I am glad you are doing so well. I'm sorry I didn't realize it was time for your surgery but I am glad all went well.

I am 7 weeks (8 weeks on Tuesday) out and it's been okay. Weeks 2 thru 4 I developed severe pain in the abdominal muscles--Dr. Ben-Meir thinks I overused my muscles because I was feeling so good when I got home. So I was doing housework, driving, etc.

I really don't have any advice at this point except to take it easy.

Denise

P.S. I am also losing slowly.......which is a downer.

I love hearing sucess stories. I'm so glad the surgery went well for you. Keep us posted, good news strengthens my decsison in choosing weight loss surgery.  I cant wait until my day comes! Congrats! lisa

Yay!!! I love to hear positive stories and since I am going to Dr. Ben-Meir this is great. I so glad for you and keep up posted. Blessings Tina

Jill - So glad everything went so well for you.  I had my RNY at St. V's with Dr. BM in March.  I thought he was wonderful and the nursing staff was very good.  Kind of scary with the power outage and all, huh?  That was a nasty storm!!   Glad you are OK. Shelley

Congrats.  Welcome to the losing side.  I am sure that the storm was scary...I know how it was for me, here.  I too, think SVC is great.  Keep up the hard work. Linda

Hi Jill,  glad to hear you are up and about. I had my surgery on the 2nd and had a so-so experience. I had alot of pain. For the most part the staff was helpful, howqever I had one nurse who was kinda a pain in the bum. The day after surgery I told her in our pre-op book it said to bring undies for the third day when the cath was removed...she dug through my belongings to get the book so I could show here were it said that because she has read the book....I had just been down at x-ray for 2 hours with no pain meds and was in no mood to search through the book (not to mention that the cath was out already) but now I want to go back up and show her where it said that just becuase i thought it was kinda rude....  but my other nurses were great. I am losing, not sure how much because my scale at home is different than the one at the hospital, so for my follow upp appt I am going to weigh myself here and then there so i know what to llok at at as far as what my actual weight loss was. Well, gonna get ready for the post-op meeting today Colleen

 

So happy to hear everyone is doing well!  Colleen, Where have you been? I hope you haven't been down this whole time! Glad to hear you are doing well!! Malissa

Colleen, Tell me more...did they control your pain? You weren't the one in surgery when the lights went out, were you? I heard Dr. Ben Meir did have someone in surgery and had to move them to University. How was the post op meeting today? I wasn't able to attend. I hope I can go to the next one but its not until Sept. 20, I think. Wonder if I still qualify? I'm really getting tired of protein shakes and looking forward to my pureed foods on Saturday. Keep in touch, Jill

jill i was so nice to read your post.  i just rec'd word (after a year and half!) that my insurance will pay for my surgery and i'm now with doc ben meir.  i've also switch from lapband to bypass (just today) so your words are very encouraging.  sorry about the lights, what a storm that was! keep in touch. robin