On The Losers Bench

Hi All, Had my surgery last Wednesday and came home on Saturday morning.  Stopped taking my pain medicine today and fell much better without it.  Seemed as though all I was doing was sleeping and didn't have much energy when I  was awake.  Today I began to function again.  The "pain" or should I say discomfort is bearable. When I got on the scale the day after I came home I was up 12 pounds...............A little disappointing but, I understand that can happen with all the fluids they give us in the hospital and I was taken off one of my blood pressure pills (my diaretic) so probably retaining water.  Anyway 6 pounds were gone this morning and I am looking forward to moving down the scale. Please tell me more about the support group meetings.  Are there two meetings?  I understand there is one at RIH and one in the Kay Auditorium at Roger Williams.   Thanks for your help and support I look forward to sharing my ride with you. Karen

Hi Karen and Congrat's on your surgery!  Glad to hear you are comfortable now. I have no idea about the weight gain after your surgery, so I am definitely leaving that up to the more experienced!    I have heard there are two meetings but I did not know where the other was held. I will look into it. Shouldn't be hard to find out. If you go back and scan the thread topics here, you should find one that says "WLSS" I posted in this thread explaining all about the meeting from my perspective. ~Dawn

The one a roger williams is a pre-op "orientation" if you will.  My doctor would not allow me to even schedule the initial consult until I went to it.  The one at RIH is the support group.

Hi Karen!

Congragulations on the surgery - which one did you do?  I am going to Dr. Phol on the 28th for my first visit.  What do you think of him?