WLS Success-through Powerful Positive Attitudes
Here off and on...
First of all... thank you to Wonderling for letting me know that this forum existed! I was soooooo glad to find someplace positive!
I had my Lap-RNY surgery (and a repair of a hiatal hernia) on the 12th - two weeks ago today. The day after surgery I was wondering "what in the heck had I done to myself"... but that feeling went away the following day when getting out of bed wasn't so darned painful! LOL
I've been home for a almost a week (my doctor is 2 hours away... so he requests his "long distance" patients to stay in a hotel close by for the first week... just in case). I find that I am doing more and more each day now... I haven't had any pain medication since the On-Q pump was taken out on the day I left the hospital (I spent two nights there). And for the most part I'm doing well... just one achy spot to the left of my belly button... but it gets less and less as the days go by.
One of my new rules is that I'm not going to be so addicted to the computer... hence the "here off and on..." title. I have been known to spend 4 or 5 hours a day sitting here... with my "new" body I'm planning on being MUCH more active... for instance, today I "finally" walked a mile... I've been working up to it all week... but it took me FORTY minutes with quite a few rest breaks!!! I can recall, and will be working towards, walking a mile in 12 minutes when I was thin many years ago. I hope to get there again!
I hope that all is well with everyone... and I'll check in as often as I can to see how "we're" doing.
Happy Spring Everyone!
I had my Lap-RNY surgery (and a repair of a hiatal hernia) on the 12th - two weeks ago today. The day after surgery I was wondering "what in the heck had I done to myself"... but that feeling went away the following day when getting out of bed wasn't so darned painful! LOL
I've been home for a almost a week (my doctor is 2 hours away... so he requests his "long distance" patients to stay in a hotel close by for the first week... just in case). I find that I am doing more and more each day now... I haven't had any pain medication since the On-Q pump was taken out on the day I left the hospital (I spent two nights there). And for the most part I'm doing well... just one achy spot to the left of my belly button... but it gets less and less as the days go by.
One of my new rules is that I'm not going to be so addicted to the computer... hence the "here off and on..." title. I have been known to spend 4 or 5 hours a day sitting here... with my "new" body I'm planning on being MUCH more active... for instance, today I "finally" walked a mile... I've been working up to it all week... but it took me FORTY minutes with quite a few rest breaks!!! I can recall, and will be working towards, walking a mile in 12 minutes when I was thin many years ago. I hope to get there again!
I hope that all is well with everyone... and I'll check in as often as I can to see how "we're" doing.
Happy Spring Everyone!
If you always do what you have always done,
You will always get what you have always got.
You will always get what you have always got.
WOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOO!! Good for you!! Isn't that pump amazing?? I have no doubt you'll be right back to that 12 minute mile in no time! I'm glad you're going to live your life but don't go away completely because sometimes you need to keep your head in a good group so you can do this thing in a such a way that you are a success. I'm so glad you're here and you're right, 4 or 5 hours is a lot on the computer but check back often OK? I can't believe you walked a mile already!!! Congrats and welcome!!
hugs, Y
hugs, Y
Open RNY 3/30/01 260lbs - 130lbs 
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