Home!

Hi All :)

Back from TWH! Surgery went well. Recovery was more or less smooth.

I had an issue with a nurse bypassing the IV machine and giving me my morphine directly, which caused a burning feeling along my arm, and totally doped me out. I mean like, I couldn't even finish a sentence. This also caused so much dizziness I had a panic attack and felt like I couldn't breath and then I had to do breathing exercises the rest of the time I was there. I mentioned it to a different nurse later on and I think they took a report or something because a lot of managers kept coming in and asking me questions about the incident. Because of this I lost a whole day of walking.

Also twice they brought me food I wasn't supposed to have but I'm not hungry so I just worked on my fluids and feel fine. I've had some cottage cheese and unsweet applesauce since I've been home. only maybe 2 teaspoons of each. I can't believe I'm not even a little bit hungry! I am however super thirsty and its hard not to guzzle down some water and only take sips!

Pro tip - Ice water  - just don't lol. It was too cold and so far is the only thing I've had that I knew when it hit my pouch.

So overall my surgery was great, recovery was fairly smooth, no complications. I think the poor nurses at TWH are sorely overworked.

I thought somehow I would feel way more different then I do. I don't really know what I was expecting but I feel just like me before surgery only sore and with stitches and gas lol.

Yay! Glad you're home! I felt like I was stalking you because I kept coming back to check if you had posted. I'm at TWH on Monday for my surgery, so I was curious about your experience. Glad to hear things went smoothly.... Umm... Except for getting directly injected with morphine (!!!?) how many nights were you there?

I was there 2 nights. Somehow I ended up with a private room - let me know if you do too. I didn't request one so I'm wondering if its a bariatric patient thing or if I just got lucky :)

Good to hear that things  went fairly good for you. Awful about the morphine thing though. You are on the losers bench now. I'm on opti day 3, surgery is on the 20th. I cannot wait to join all of you on that bench. 

Thanks for posting. I'm happy things went well for you. I look forward to reading your updates!