1 week post-op update!

   Hello all!

I am one week post-op today! I am doing very well! Surgery went perfectly. I did have some gas pain, but as I was told, walking really helps! I walked soo much in the hospital! (walk,walk,sip,sip)

  I was discharged the following afternoon. I still struggle with getting all of my protein and fluids in daily but I am trying. I walk every day, and try to increase the distance daily as well. I started the miralax and gas-x as soon as I got home and have found that they help...well, I think they help. I don't want to stop taking them to find out. 

   I stopped taking pain meds three days ago and I am not missing them! I do get some pain on my right side after a few bites of jello.  Let me say again....pain! I think it is my gallbladder. I have my post-op appointment on the 26th with my surgeon and will bring up that little scream out loud and cry pain with him then. 

 I am truly amazed at how great I feel most days so far!! Whoo-Hoo!  Though, I can tell that I am more tired at the end of the day. I do have a pain here and there from time to time and chalk it up to doing too much! 

  I am down 20 pounds since surgery seven days ago!! Whoo-Hoo!  

I have had more "head hunger" yesterday, than I have experienced in a while! WoW!!! Thinking about bad food really sucks and I swear every time I walk past the TV something tasty is on a slow motion ride into somebody's mouth! 

     I love to cook, and I have really enjoyed cooking a little meal for my husband the past three days. It makes me feel more normal and I just love it. I am cooking for him the healthier things I will forever be cooking. He is very supportive and says he has loved every meal. I doubt he has noticed the lack of simple carbs in the past few meals. 

   I return to work tonight. Wish me well! I will do my best to take it as slow as I can. ( I hope my scrubs are a little loose!)

 Thank you all for being so wonderful to me on this journey.  

Izzi

Good to hear. Good for you. Congrats. Keep up the good work. 

Sounds like things are going well and that is great.  I am curious as to what type of job you have since you said scrubs. 

I am a vet tech. It is a VERY busy practice, but I have done well the past two weeks at work and I have avoided a lot of the lifting, though I did cry out a couple times when I was doing too much last week. This week has been even better and the more  I do the better I feel.

Such wonderful news, Izzi!    Wishing you a positive return to work and that your scrubs are a little looser!  

Progress,

-LB

  Thanks! 

You, my friend, are definitely on the road to success!  Keep up the good work.  

Thanks! I am trying!!

Congratulations!  You are doing so great.  And kudos for going back to work so quickly!  I am with you, I want the loose scrubs too!  LOL

You, and everyone on here, inspire me as I move forward with my surgery on 8/31/15.  YEAH Losers Bench