Home from hospital

Everything went well, surgery took a total of 6 hours. PS did the skin removal first, then my WLS came in and did the hernia repair, and they both did the closing. They said it all went well no complications. I expected to wake up with a boat load of staples or stitches, but instead they glued me back together, the only stitches I have are the ones holding my 2 drains in place. I also have some kinda bulb, filled with pain meds it has a small tube that delivers pain meds right to the incision line. The worst part of it was getting a good bit of chest congestion that has to be coughed up, and that hurts like a sombeach. I was a little disappointed in the weight of skin he removed, his estimate was 15-25 pounds of skin, but ended up only being 11 pounds of skin. He said I already lost the fat out of it and skin doesn’t weigh that much. Overall I am very happy the way it looks. Well I am going to take a shot of pain meds and zonk out. Thanks guys for all your well wishes. Alan (NOT SO BIG) Al.