Home and Sleeved!
Hello everyone!
Just a short note to say that I'm home from the hospital and everything went great! My surgeon was very pleased, and I even got a few standing ovations from the nurses when I got up to walk before everyone else, haha.
Right now I'm trying to drink some protein. If it tasted better I could probably get it down no problem, but I think people were right about your tastes changing. I tried the grape Isopure before surgery and loved it, and now it sucks.
TMI part - The only thing they weren't really happy about is that I haven't passed any gas. I'm supposed to call his office tomorrow if I still haven't by then. Maybe then he'll say it's okay to use the gas-x strips.
Anyway, I'm hoping that I will have an easy recovery thanks to the advice you guys have given me. I really appreciate it!
Just a short note to say that I'm home from the hospital and everything went great! My surgeon was very pleased, and I even got a few standing ovations from the nurses when I got up to walk before everyone else, haha.
Right now I'm trying to drink some protein. If it tasted better I could probably get it down no problem, but I think people were right about your tastes changing. I tried the grape Isopure before surgery and loved it, and now it sucks.
TMI part - The only thing they weren't really happy about is that I haven't passed any gas. I'm supposed to call his office tomorrow if I still haven't by then. Maybe then he'll say it's okay to use the gas-x strips.
Anyway, I'm hoping that I will have an easy recovery thanks to the advice you guys have given me. I really appreciate it!
My surgeon tries to get them home the next day for sleeves. Bands are outpatient, and Bypass stays two nights. He made sure I was okay coming home before starting the discharge, and said if I was worried about the whole lack of gas stuff, that I could stay and they'd keep watch over me. At that point I figured that if I was gonna be in pain somewhere, I'd rather it be home!
(Imma Loser!)
Congrats on your surgery!
Sounds like you had one of the EZ ones - I hope mine is as good next tuesday.
I don't want to stay in the hospital very long - i hate everything about them
Congrats again, and I hope you have a very gaseous night!
Farting/burping is great!
But from what I hear....Be very careful of the dreaded Shart while on liquids..
J
Sounds like you had one of the EZ ones - I hope mine is as good next tuesday.
I don't want to stay in the hospital very long - i hate everything about them
Congrats again, and I hope you have a very gaseous night!
Farting/burping is great!
But from what I hear....Be very careful of the dreaded Shart while on liquids..
J
VSG Surgery on April 26th, 2011
"Get busy living…or get busy dying. That's goddamn right." ~ Red, The Shawshank Redemption
"Get busy living…or get busy dying. That's goddamn right." ~ Red, The Shawshank Redemption
I was pretty lucky to have an easy one. I have no idea if it'll stay that way (I'm really hoping), but the hospital stay wasn't bad. I had a private room and a TV. The only bad part is that I got absolutely no sleep that night. I was connected to this machine that measures your breath, and any time I got close to dozing off it would start beeping to let me know I wasn't breathing deeply enough.
Time to go back to drinking protein! I just mixed up some Isopure with some sugar free popsicles, and it made it a bit better.
Time to go back to drinking protein! I just mixed up some Isopure with some sugar free popsicles, and it made it a bit better.
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