AUGUST 2012 SLEEVERS - open community
Five days post-op
I had surgery on Tuesday and am now five days post-op.
I'm doing pretty good my recovery hasn't been easy as others nor hard as others. I feel like it's smack dab right in the middle. I had to stay in the hospital until Friday because my potassium was dangerously low for some reason. So they had to give me bag after bag of potassium which is no fun that stuff hurts going through your veins. They got it up enough for me to go home with liquid potassium (yuck! like drinking sweat).
I just can't wait to feel normal and watch the pounds drop.
I would also like to thank everyone who offered prayers and comments of encouragement.
thank you thank you thank you and hugs to you all!!!
Well enough about me how's everyone else doing?
I'm doing pretty good my recovery hasn't been easy as others nor hard as others. I feel like it's smack dab right in the middle. I had to stay in the hospital until Friday because my potassium was dangerously low for some reason. So they had to give me bag after bag of potassium which is no fun that stuff hurts going through your veins. They got it up enough for me to go home with liquid potassium (yuck! like drinking sweat).
I just can't wait to feel normal and watch the pounds drop.
I would also like to thank everyone who offered prayers and comments of encouragement.
thank you thank you thank you and hugs to you all!!!Well enough about me how's everyone else doing?
wow- sorry you had those problems.. hope that is behind you now..
i had mine 8/22 so i am only 2 days postop.. been pretty good so far..
i had a lapband almost 2 yrs ago and had trouble trouble - never could get a good fill, then developed a hernia, so i had the band removed and revised to sleeve and hernia repair all at once.. thought it would be worse pain , i have been lucky.. hope it stays like this.. i am not usually the luciest of persons.. the week before my surgery i had a nasty fall an dhad to get 12 staples in my knee-- ouch.. thought that migh delay my surgery but they said no.. as long as i coul get up and walk around- then i could go ahead with it.. i was ready, so I decided not to postpone.
M y niece had hers about 6-7 months ago so we can compare notes.. she called me on the day of my surgery and told me happy birthday.. that is how she explains what it meant to her--like a rebirth, and the start of the rest of your new life.. love that comparison...
hang in there.. keep in touch... i am ready for the pounds to fall away!!! yeah us!!
i had mine 8/22 so i am only 2 days postop.. been pretty good so far..
i had a lapband almost 2 yrs ago and had trouble trouble - never could get a good fill, then developed a hernia, so i had the band removed and revised to sleeve and hernia repair all at once.. thought it would be worse pain , i have been lucky.. hope it stays like this.. i am not usually the luciest of persons.. the week before my surgery i had a nasty fall an dhad to get 12 staples in my knee-- ouch.. thought that migh delay my surgery but they said no.. as long as i coul get up and walk around- then i could go ahead with it.. i was ready, so I decided not to postpone.
M y niece had hers about 6-7 months ago so we can compare notes.. she called me on the day of my surgery and told me happy birthday.. that is how she explains what it meant to her--like a rebirth, and the start of the rest of your new life.. love that comparison...
hang in there.. keep in touch... i am ready for the pounds to fall away!!! yeah us!!
Happy to hear it's going good for you. I get my levels checked Friday and I hope they are were they need to be don't want to be put back in the hospital.
I'm two weeks out and have lost 35lbs so I'm really happy about that.
I just can't wait to feel like myself again. I've been having dizzy and wooziness spells and hardly able to get more than 15grams of protein in ( bad I know), but I start pureed Tomorrow so I'm hoping with adding foods I can stomach the protein better.
Well I hope everything keeps going great for you. I hope to hear from you soon and how your doing.
Jenn D.
I'm two weeks out and have lost 35lbs so I'm really happy about that.
I just can't wait to feel like myself again. I've been having dizzy and wooziness spells and hardly able to get more than 15grams of protein in ( bad I know), but I start pureed Tomorrow so I'm hoping with adding foods I can stomach the protein better.
Well I hope everything keeps going great for you. I hope to hear from you soon and how your doing.
Jenn D.
