AM HOME AN THANK EVERYONE FOR THERE PRAY'S

HEY EVERYONE AM HOME...SO AM NOW ON THE LOSSER SIDE. I CAME HOME ON THUR DEC 14 , 2006 HAD IT DONE ON MON DEC 11, 2006. I DON'T THINK AM DOING GOOD BUT EVERYONE TELLS ME I AM..I CAN'T EAT..NOR DRINK WATER.. I EAT VERY LITTLE AN DRINK VERY LITTLE. MY MOUTH IS ALL THE TIME DRY. I LIVE OFF OF ICE CHIPS. AND THE PROTION DRINKS EWWWWWWWWWW I CAN'T GET ONE DOWN MY MOUTH..I NEED SO HELP NOW PLEASE. CAN SOMEONE TELL ME WHAT I CAN DO TO TRY TO MAKE MY SELF TO EAT AN DRINK. THANKS TO EVERYONE PRAY'S I MADE IT THOUGH I WAS SECEARD TO DEATH AN LIKE 5 MINS FROM WHEN THEY WHERE GOING TO CALL ME IN I SAID THE HELL WITH IT AM NOT HAVING IT DONE. AN MY FRIENDS SAY MARIA YOU CAME ALL THIS WAY GO FOR IT. SO i DID I HOPE I DIDN'T MAKE A MISTAKE...TAKE CARE AND THANKS AGAIN MARIA

Hi Maria, I have been wondering about you. I am so glad your surgery went well - I knew it would!! Okay Maria, now your part begins. You have been given this gift of a teeny little pouch that is going to help you to lose weight. I remember we talked about this before and I felt bad because I didn't feel like you'd done enough research on this surgery. You are going to have to continue to read the posts and learn. Go to your month surgery page and see what other people who had surgery in December are doing. Learn from them. It is very very very important that you drink water. You need to sip a little bit at least every hour. This is important. The protein drinks are hard to take at first, but again you need to do that. You said you want someone to tell you what to do to get this stuff down -- well I am going to tell you that if you don't you will get sick. So you need to suck it up Maria, and well just do it!! Yes, I know it's hard, but it's not an option. Drink the water!! It isn't much to drink, but important to do it. Maria, it will get easier, I promise you. But you have to start off with a compliant frame of mind, that is that you will follow the rules and do whatever it is the doctor tells you to do. Only by doing that will this be successful for you. Don't try to cut corners or eliminate something that your doctor wants you to do. I hope this isn't too hard on you, I don't want to be and I only do this with the most loving support I can give. I don't want you to fail, but you need to be strick with yourself and follow the rules. Again, Maria I am glad you're home and glad you posted. I've been very curious and concerned about you. Let me know if I can be of any help in any way, but I am a firm believer in doing everything the doctor says!! love donna

{hijack, so sorry} .....G'morning Donna, how are you girlfriend? Just wanted to say, I LOVED reading your response to Maria .... absolutely dead on accurate, but most importantly, cause you "get it" ....I remember the concerns you had early out and you've just come full circle and just warms my heart. Be looking for a reply email to yours some time today. Love you - Lei . . . . . . Hello MARIA - I can't really add anything that DONNA hasn't already covered, but I did want to welcome you home and welcome you to your NEW and HEALTHY LIFE!! Hugs - Lei

Hey Donna..And thank you. Belive me I will listen to everything my doc. tells me to do. I did better yeasterday. I was siping ice chips with suger free grape kool aid in it. an I did do alot with that. an about the protion drinks I think am going to trying an just mixes it in with 1 % milk an see how that gose. but them ones that are already made up .eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwww I can't get them down lol. I know i need to eat every 2 hr and drink in between. an that's starting to come along good now. I just hope an pray that everything gose well for me..but I want to thank you an am going to tell an do a profile on here. but I don't know how to do it yet lol. but am trying i just love reading everyones profile and the before and after pics. I just look at them all an say YOU GO GIRL LOLL...well thanks donna for all you info thanks and god bless..Maria

Sip, sip, sip--Crystal Lite, tea with splenda, tomato juice--anything without sugar that you can get down in sips. Very small sips. Don't worry about food right now. Try fluids and warm soups. Donna gave you good advice. TEENSY sips!! Constantly! Lois

Hey Maria, In addition to what Donna so lovingly wrote to you, I wanted to let you know.. Taste buds are rediculous early out post op. I remember my mom getting so upset, and throwing away jello and pudding galore, cuz I couldn't tolerate the thought, let alone the taste of anything she made for me those first 2 weeks post op. Don't fret it. You will soon be able to tolerate things more, and get your nutrition in. DO NOT let your fluid consumption fail tho.. if nothing else, drink your water... take your sippy cup everywhere.. it will save you. Your body has stores of things to get you thru this trying time, like protein and stuff.. but the water is critical. I remember with the protein drinks, my mother had to play around with the temperature. I couldn't stand anything warm, or "cool", it had to be darned near frozen for me to be able to get it down... she started adding ice and blending up my protein shakes, and I was able to get down 2-3 ounces, FINALLY, after about 8 days.. this was a life saver, and gave me so much energy to recover. Tomatoe soup was the next life saver we discovered.. just to get me over the hump (I know its a no-no in some surgeons books, so please follow your own surgeons advice, not mine) Much love to you Maria, I know you will do well. Wendy

Hi Marie - hope you are feeling a bit better now. Donna has given you very good advice - you do need to suck it up in the beginning! You may be having your water too cold - try warm for a while and see how that feels - when I first had surgery cold water used to hurt my pouch because it made the muscles contract. I hated protein drinks as well but now I do the protein vials by IDS and they are my lifesaver! You just need to hang in there because the better you do now the better you will feel further out..... and if you don't tske your protein you may lose more hair further out too - so you don't want that of you can help it.... Also be happy you can't eat much in the beginning because soon your appetite grows and you wish for the days when you could barely eat lol!! Jackie