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on 5/16/18 7:16 am
Thank you! I don't get why the rules need to be so different either! It makes no sense. I guess he just fears infection? But I feel far more germy in this state...
It's so crazy how different surgeon's have different rules! Some people are served soft food in the hospital after RNY, others can't eat soft food for two weeks. Apparently the same goes for plastic surgeon's! I was allowed to shower on day 2 I think...even with drains. I hooked the drains to my lanyard and it felt incredible to be able to be clean. I am so sorry you aren't allowed this simple joy! You are totally allowed to have a pity party, you poor thing. It all sounds very frustrating. But like Erin and Laura said, this will literally be such a distant memory. I almost can't even conjure up how I felt that first week and it's only been 2 years. Plus, I saw your surgeon's before and after pic, and once you're clean and the swelling has gone down, I can already tell you are going to be THRILLED with your new body! Hang in there, come and vent anytime, and know that this too shall pass :)
I had my catheter for a week. It was a PITA, but soon it will be a distant memory. Hang in there!!
Laura in Texas
53 years old; 5'7" tall; HW: 339 (BMI=53); GW: 140 CW: 170 (BMI=27)
RNY: 09-17-08 Dr. Garth Davis
brachioplasty: 12-18-09 Dr. Wainwright; lbl/bl: 06-28-11 Dr. LoMonaco
"May your choices reflect your hopes and not your fears."
on 5/16/18 4:35 am
Oh, and I haven't been strong enough to stand over a sink to have anyone wash my hair yet, but maybe I can do that tomorrow afternoon too. It's not as uncomfortable as the other stuff because I don't get greasy hair, been unsing dry shampoo, and I have an around the head chin strap for the lipo done under my *****which I hear from those who said I didn't need it that it looks great), so you can't see my hair really. So a tiny positive there.
on 5/16/18 4:29 am
Yep home since Sunday afternoon. He leaves the catheter so you have one less reason to get up. In that respect it was okay, but it's also been problematic from a cleanliness standpoint!
And he doesn't want any showers at all while you still have drains, so I feel nasty. It goes from ankle to under my boobs, so that leaves little area to wash. I do clean up when I go to the bathroom (no constipation from the pain meds), but that's when I'm hunched over like a 90 year old and breathing heavy from the exertion of making it to the bathroom and peeling out of this garment to the tops of my thighs. The no stairs for 3 weeks rule is because of the medial thigh lift.
And with the fat transfer to my butt, I'm supposed to lay and sit in this giant plastic wrapped foam rectangle with a butt shaped hole in it to keep the pressure off the newly transplanted fat. But you really end up just getting pressure from whatever is under the foam hole, so I don't know that it helps, but it sure isn't comfortable and the plastic plus the compression garment means I sweat which adds to my unclean state makes me even more miserable and stinky!
I'm pray for clearance tomorrow to take this off and wa**** and do a good sink bath while that's happening. That plus no more catheter and a few less than my 6 drains. That leaves one more week in the plastic covered hole and two weeks until I can get upstairs to my bed and my shower (if all drains are out by then). This takes a lot of mental fortitude!!
i know you're right that it gets better, but right now I'm totally miserable and very little of that has anything to do with pain from surgery!
So, you're home right? Do you still have the catheter? I only had mine for about 6-8 hours post surgery, maybe not even that long. I also was allowed out of the 'torture suit' (haha) for a shower after day 2. Are you still not allowed to shower?!
By that point, I could also do some stairs 1-2 times per day (slowly) if it needed to. Surgery causes so much hormone interruption - so get in that good cry and know that this will get better, I promise.
VSG: 1/17/17
5'7" HW: 283 SW: 229 CW: 135-140 GW: 145
Pre-op: 53 M1: 22 M2: 12 M3: 12 M4: 8 M5: 10 M6: 11 M7: 5 M8: 6 M9-M13: 15-ish
LBL/BL w/ Fat Transfer 1/29/18
So glad that you have friends who can support you! Sending you healing thoughts 
HW: 248+, SW (RNY: 2/28/17): 244, GW (10/17): 125; LW: 115; 45# regain (19-20); CW: 135.6; new goal: 135; Plastics: Ext mastopexy, Ext abdominoplasty-5/18/2018; diagnosed w/ gastroparesis 11/20.
on 5/15/18 4:47 pm
Thank you! I might laugh about it later. Right now I'm too emotional about it!
Oh my god. First let me say that this sounds tortuous and miserable and my heart FULLY goes out to you, and I really hope your recovery gets easier from here on out!
That being said, the description of your plight is actually very comically written, and I hope you atleast make yourself laugh as much as you have me.
Im sure it doesn't seem like it now, but some day, hopefully soon, it will feel like it was all worth it.
on 5/15/18 2:52 pm
Maybe don't read my post from a minute ago. I am struggling with everything but pain!
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