Home!

Thanks for all your well wishes while I was gone.  I was very fortunate at my hospital to have several of the nurses and CNA's having already gone thru RNY themselves.  They are trying to make the floor bariatric specific, and only hire people with extensive background in it.  They were all so excited for me and were great inspirations. The funny thing about the hospital is they tell you to rest rest rest, then come in every 30 minutes to poke you.  Apparently I started sleeping thru the pokes eventually.  The surgeon said the surgery went great.  It was all laproscopic and she said my pouch is one of the best ones she has done.  The catheter though...ugh, I could have lived without. So here I am walk walk walk, sip sip sip.  Trying to drink my clear liquid protein drinks (awful) and sucking on SF popsicles (yum!) Good luck to all of you about to go in.  My experience overall was great.  I have big ups and downs right now, but everyday seems to be improving.

Great to hear you’re home Nick! Take it easy. These first couple of weeks can be He11! Hope you’re up and hittin’ on all cylinders soon! Best Wishes- Dx

WELCOME HOME AND TO THE LOOSERS BENCH!!!!! SIP SIP SIP, WALK WALK WALK and you will be feeling great fairly soon. If anything feels funny or "not right" talk with your doc ASAP! I wound up with blood clots from the surgery ( a possible side effect of any surgery but not nessesarly a high risk of getting) and they caused me a pain in the side. After a few hours, it was getting hard to breathe, so I went to the ER. The doc told me I was lucky to still be alive as I had a MASSIVE SHOWER   of clots! The point of this is not to scare you but rather, if anything makes you wonder about it, CHECK IT OUT! Most people don't have any problem at all, just be careful and welcome to the looser side of life!

welcome home! now, get some measurements so you can be properly impressed as the first three or four weeks of weight just fall off, because it slows downa a bit after that and the scales take turns with the inches coming off the waist. My head got smaller first, then my feet (I dropped a shoe size at threee months).  Then it worked up my legs and butt.  The gut was the last to start shrinking noticeably. Take pictures like every month to compare the same pose, prefereably from the side. And not your walking distance and time.  The distance will increase for the same amount of time, so your distance should increase as you gt stronger and faster.  So your neighbors will start commenting and cheering you on. So many good times on the horizon.

Yeah Nick!  Glad your through it.  It only keeps getting better.  I'm almost 3 weeks post op, on liquids and soft foods.  Dropping weight, and sipping, sipping, sipping.  The main thing I miss is a big glass or gulp of water.   It gets old sipping, sipping, sipping.  But all in all I wouldn't change a thing. Glad everything went well. Mike Ray