Glitter Gal has landed - home on and the Loser's Bench!
Kim - the first time I felt the butt bone hit the chair was on Mother's Day at Johnny Carino's (yes Johnny Carino - can't believe I went there...but did ok). I asked my daughter and her friend, neither of them with a weight issue, if their tushie also hurts on the wooden chair, and they say yes, after a while, but they are used to it! That I believe is the difference between us, with the padding, and them who never had the padding. I have noticed that in general, I have to be careful when I bump into things because I get hurt now, since there is less padding between my bones and skin. - Kind of cool I think, but I know skinny people would think it's weird.. - Anna
(50 lbs lost pre-op)
Congratulations! As for the butt padding, that's hilarious! I was sitting on my car seat the other day and felt like I was sitting on something hard, and realized it was my butt bone! I don't remember ever feeling that before. Has that always been there? :)
As for the dehydration, I was one of the lucky ones to go back the day after I went home and get another i.v. hook-up. My problem was drinking was too uncomfortable and I couldn't keep my pain medicine down, which made the drinking unbearably more uncomfortable, and there went a vicious cycle which had me visiting all the folks at the Foundation Bariatric Hospital again. If you're keeping everything down,, you should be fine. You probably have fluid still in you from all that they gave you that if you don't make it all the way to 64oz. I wouldn't think you would be dehydrated.
At 5 weeks out, I still try hard to drink, but I only get maybe 48 oz. plus some sugar free hot cocoa which I usually drink to start out the day with. I feel fine, but my weight comes off slowly.
Well, I hope my un-expert advice helps! I hope you get plenty of rest and have a speedy recovery!
Diana
Kim, That left sided pain is oh so normal. When it hurts the worst it usually means that scar tissue is forming. Mine didn't start hurting until about 2 weeks out and lasted until about the 4th or 5th week. Thank goodness, it was not a constant pain though. Sometimes it takes your breath away though. Mine was worse if I sat for too long, and then tried to get up. OUCH !!! And believe it or not, one day your tailbone will hurt. It's the funniest damn thing. The other day I sat down really hard in a wood rocking chair. Damn, that hurt. I forget most of the time that the padding is not there any more.
I know all about left side pain, but I'm the minority in the group on that one due to an infection.
That's the side the stapler goes in and out of in that hole and most of the work is there, too.
Hated, hated, hated Lortab and switched...had various types of pain meds with no relief but it was due to infection 'cause I walked out of the hospital in no pain, but I was a walking fiend.
Anyway, the butt padding is gone, and I sorta miss SOME of it...notice, I said SOME because I have a flat butt now. Oh well, it's better than the protuberance I had before! LOL
That's the side the stapler goes in and out of in that hole and most of the work is there, too.
Hated, hated, hated Lortab and switched...had various types of pain meds with no relief but it was due to infection 'cause I walked out of the hospital in no pain, but I was a walking fiend.
Anyway, the butt padding is gone, and I sorta miss SOME of it...notice, I said SOME because I have a flat butt now. Oh well, it's better than the protuberance I had before! LOL 
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